Guides & Resources
Cultivating Influence
In a recent conversation with a client, we talked about how to improve the team’s performance. It was like one of those aha moments, to learn that team leadership is not about control and authority but rather it is about influence. As good as that sounded, it did not mean much as the perplexed look on his…
Effective Leadership Requires Change of Mindset
According to a recent McKinsey research (02/23), up to 50 percent of CEO confront failure early in their tenure and “those who succeed realize the importance of rewriting their work habits and mindsets”. CEOs in their new role had to rewrite their mindsets? How? Why? Leadership is not business as usual from one organization to the other…
Leading from the Core of Excellence (3): Involving others and operating from a deep moral root.
To lead from the core of excellence is an intentional and highly introspective process. Tracing the history authenticity always takes one to this statement by Socrates; “Know thyself”. Socrates will go further to say that “an unexamined life is not worth living”. Introspection offers a space for the leader/an individual to reflect how he/she/them are living out…
Leading from the Core of Excellence (2)
Authentic leaders inspire, empower and grow others. How? A second key element in building the core of excellence is Relational Transparency…turn it around and it will mean the same thing …transparency in relationships. To lead from the core of excellence requires consistent transparency in the way you as a leader relate to others. The process of influence is…
Leading from the Center of Excellence (Part 1)
To lead and live authentically is to lead from your center of excellence. What exactly does that mean? Authentic leadership is a values-driven leadership. If you are wavering on what exactly are the values driving your life, it will be almost impossible to claim authenticity. This is because authentic behaviors are internally guided by a leader’s true self, anchored…
Profitability is not Equal to Leadership Effectiveness
Performance Profit is not = Leadership Effectiveness (this might sound a little controversial). Performance Profit results is important in leadership, but it is not the totality of effective leadership. As a leader, you could have some lofty achievements that have made your shareholders happy and not be perceived by your team or organization as an effective leader. Your…
Where are You on Your Journey?
Life is a journey. Life is a race. The latter gets confused with competition. Life is not a competition but it is a race. It has a starting point and a finishing line. And the finish line? Where you want to get to at the end? We have called this vision and sometimes we have called it dream. Irrespective of the term,…
Temporarily Lost
On my way to dropping my son off at school this morning, I saw a sticker on a car in front of me that read “It’s ok. We are all a little lost sometimes”. I kept thinking about this statement as I drove. My first thought was, absolutely, I am always lost even with gps (which never ceases…
Self-leadership
Self-leadership is the primary foundation for leadership success for any individual but most especially for anyone aspiring to lead a team or organization. Self-leadership is a self-influencing process that enables an individual to set performance objectives with determined motivation and force. Self-leadership requires that you take control of your thoughts and your development as a person towards…
Transparency and Why it Matters
Transparency is not expendable in leadership. Transparency builds credibility which build trust which build influence which makes a leader worth following. Put differently, transparency is a foundation of credibility which is the foundation of trust which leads to influence and impact. Without influence there is no leadership. Transparency or lack of it thereof, in leadership is costly. It…