A Leader worth Admiring

Who do you consider to be a leader worth admiring? By admire I mean that you are so impressed by them (vision, accomplishments, style, etc) that you celebrate them, become their fan and would like to adopt some of their behaviours into your life.  

So... Gandhi? Hitler? Churchill? Your neighbourhood businessman? A preacher / priest? A film actor? A family member? A friend?  Well, that's your choice.

Now, consider this Ted Talk by Martin Gutmann (the trigger for this short article) that tries to understand this by asking if, by actually celebrating the wrong leaders, we are thereby creating an aspiration to become what might actually be an ineffective leader? If so, what could be the repercussions (on self / team / organization / society) when we celebrate the only shiny (media / social media) side of leadership?

There's a lot of food for thought in this video.  For me, one of the most provoking ideas was about what are the measures by which we tend to judge leaders.  Or rather, which measures are most appropriate to evaluate leaders?  

This further reminded me of discussions I have had during my corporate days while hiring candidates at any level or promoting employees. Practically everyone at the discussion had a different criterion preference when evaluating the person, and it would frequently take us time to understand the other person's perspective when we didn't understand and disagreed with the evaluation.

Things moved forward only when we shared our perspective on the factors we looked at when evaluating the candidate.

And the two final thoughts that struck me from this video:

• Is there a leader authentic enough to be worth admiring, particularly when we look at the current behaviours of some of the world's politicians and business leaders?
• How do I leverage my strengths to become a leader authentic enough to be admired?

Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

Practical Guide to Develop Ethical Leadership

Ethics and leadership are regularly discussed together, especially over the past decade or so.  Corporate scams that have led to C-suite leaders facing jail time are in the news often.  

One often wonders what if any ethics were considered and why ethics were not followed by those leaders.

Here's a superb and practical article on how to develop #ethicalleadership.

I love the questions for self-inquiry provided in it. 

From the article: "It’s important to remember that whatever we think, say or do has consequences on ourselves and others – however small our actions are."

Read the article here.

6 Vital Traits for APAC’s Future CEOs

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From the article - "The world is not black and white, and the really good CEOs will need to draw on curiosity and conviction to navigate this,”

For me - more than traits, these are actually things that the future #leader must do pretty much daily, irrespective of their level in the organization. So a lot of skill will have to go into delivering on these areas.

By the way - it wouldn't hurt individuals and aspiring leaders to adopt these traits as early as possible.

Read the entire article here

Leadership Authenticity Starts With Knowing Yourself

Here's a must read article if you want to develop yourself as an "Authentic Leader".

From the article - "Authentic leaders are always investing in strengths -- their own strengths as well as those of their followers." 

When you think about it, you realize that trying to fix weaknesses wastes time, causes unhappiness, dissatisfaction and disengagement, and building on strengths can accelerate growth while having a positive energy experience.

Read the rest of the article here

Leadership expectations - 2022 and beyond

Here is another list of #expectations of #skills and capabilities that a #leader should have / develop. Read the article here.

I don't personally see anything new in this list (Read the book "How Did They Manage?" for more about leadership management). Here's what I know: The Strategically Smart leader knows that he cannot know and do it all, so he hires a team that complements his weaknesses with their #strengths and hires a Strengths coach to support them all.

Facweek Feedback - Resilient Leader Session

As a member of the IAF (International Association of Facilitators), we celebrate FacWeek every year in the month of October where we facilitators go out and do 90 minute sessions for corporates, NGOs and Educational Institutes - probono.

I have been doing this for IAF since 2018, and this year was no exception.  I did four sessions on topics chosen by that organization.  Here is the feedback from "The Resilient Leader" session that I did for two organizations.  In one of the sessions, I had the pleasure of having Hardy Alexander as my co-facilitator.

Have a look at the feedback and let me know what you think.

If you want me to do this session (it's actually a full two-day workshop, write to me at ryanbbarretto@hotmail.com

How Leaders empower

 

When leaders empower their team members to enable them to utilize their strengths at work, they become a bridge to superlative performance and employee engagement.  

Why?

When this happens, the stretch goals become a challenge that engages employees positively and helps drive enhanced performance.

If you want to do this for your organization, let's talk.

When do you you need to hire a coach?

Wondering if you should be hiring a coach? Read this lucid article to get your answer.

Contact me to know how strengths coaching will get you results.  With my coaching, you will become a strong, empathetic and focused leader and will enable you to grow your organization successfully.

#strengthscoaching #strengthsdecoder #coaching #hiringacoach #coachingculture

9 Ways to Reinforce and Live Your Company's values Every Day

 Super read on making your #organizationvalues a reality in terms of behaviour.

I have put some of the 9 ways into practice during my corporate stint years ago, and designed and ran a group process #facilitation session for a client a few years ago to help the employees understand how they can make the values really visible in terms of daily work behaviour.

Read this article here