Insight as a Leadership Skill

Insight as a Leadership Skill

A key skill for leaders is Insight, the ability to share a purpose or vision and inspire their teams to achieve goals in support of that purpose or vision.

As a leader, you may have a strong vision for what you want to achieve but if you lack the interpersonal or coaching skills required to inspire, motivate and mobilize your team, your vision will only be partially realized. 

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) skills are fundamental to those interpersonal and coaching skills and all of them can be strengthened, whatever level you find yourself at.

I work with leaders to grow these EQ skills, such as Empathy, Assertiveness, Flexibility and Emotional Awareness, so they can grow their capacity as a leader and make the impact they’re wanting through their vision.

If you’re a leader who has a vision and you’re possibly struggling with how to make it happen, learn more about EQ and EQ coaching and the difference it will make in you and your team.

Trust at Work Too

Trust at Work Too

Trust, respect and vulnerability are not just for use at home and in our private lives. When cultivated in the workplace, they form the foundation of healthy organizations and company culture.

We often make the mistake that what applies in our private life somehow doesn’t apply to our work life. But the rules of human connection apply to both. The way we treat people in our private life and those close to us, and how we nurture those relationships, is how we should treat those we work with.

Because after all, you can’t influence those who don’t respect you. You can’t influence those who don’t trust you. And you can’t influence those who feel you don’t care about them.

It’s that simple.

 

The Deal Breaker for Effective Teams

The Deal Breaker for Effective Teams

Going beyond what we commonly think of as trust, at the heart of cohesive and effective teams must be vulnerability based trust.

This means people are comfortable saying ‘I screwed up’, ‘I need help with that’, ‘what could I do more of to be a better manager for you’, ‘what could I do less of to be a better member of this team’.

Vulnerability based trust means that people are comfortable being vulnerable with each other.

And the result of this kind of team is cohesion, effectiveness, healthy debate, increased commitment, accountability and a focus and attention on results. And for leaders of an organization, this is what counts.