Be1Leader

Do you want to be more successful in building up leaders and have more effective alignment within your organization?

Liz Theophille, a Senior IT leader with a multicultural international experience in many large corporate companies will tell us more about how she applies leading with the heart and servant leadership in her daily work with some concrete examples.

• Success and good leadership is about service.
• Leadership comes at a great sacrifice.
• You are not in charge, you are responsible for those in your charge.
• When things go right you have to give away the credit, and when things to wrong you have to take all the responsibility.
• Some people see the thing that they want and some people see the thing that prevents them from seeing the thing that they want.
• You cannot get in the way of somebody else of getting what they want.
• Infinite players play to be better than themselves.
• You are your competition.
• Empathy and perspective are key leadership skills
• The real job of a leader is taking care of those in our charge.
• What is your priority?
• Being concerned about the human being, not just about their output.
• Create a safe environment
• How do I help my people be at their natural best?
• We don’t always have to be right.
• It’s not always about winning and losing.

What will your 2020 look like?  I don’t agree with everything in this clip, but there are some good points. 

Happy New Year to you and may your vision for 2020 be focused on those things that will truly bring you success !

A Gary Vaynerchuk Original

If you live for the weekend, your life is broken. I hope that this video can act as an extra boost of motivation or inspiration to never do stuff that you hate. I need everyone who sees this post to RECALIBRATE!  You are going to spend more than 60% of your adult life at “work” or wasting time on the weekends. (NOTE: If you would like the uncut version, simply search YouTube.)

Leadership Tips for Building Strong Team Loyalty

Business is brutal and the everyday brutality requires that we find directions that serve the purpose. Sometimes we have to be comfortable in the knowledge that we will FAIL our way into SUCCESS.

“Discipline generates results, results create motivation.”

There are four recommendations organizations need to consider if they want to build strong leadership accountability. (1) Make leadership a critical business priority; (2) set clear expectations of their leaders; (3) identify and address leaders who are unaccountable; and (4) establish a strong community of leaders.

Professional development expert Beverly Washington says there are five influence strategies for leaders, including improving your communication skills, respecting your fellow employees, being likeable, doing your research and being knowledgeable, and being courteous.

Trust in the context of workplace refers to our ability to predict what other people will do and what situations will occur – that may be in support of our wellbeing.

Red Hat CEO, Jim Whitehurst, and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and retired U.S. Army, General H. Hugh Shelton, discuss the value of being a straight talker in the workplace.