Be1Leader

Simon Sinek answers “What Did You Learn in Your First Job After College That is Still Relevant Today?”

Leadership is a choice we make, every day. From routine interactions, to taking on society’s challenges, we lead by example – through who we are and how we deliver. At Marsh McLennan, we are all leaders. For an organization to work at its best, we all have to have a leadership mindset.

Toni Land, Chief Patient Experience & Quality Officer at Medical Center Health System, shares advice leading as an emotionally intelligent leader in Healthcare.

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.)

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Leadership Tips for Building Strong Team Loyalty

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.