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Horizon Leadership | Original Quote Series Cultivate a Chorus, Not Clones True leaders don't just delegate tasks - they craft environments where unique strengths and bold ideas are celebrated. In this space, individuality and confidence blossom, becoming the fuel that propels the team towards achieving shared goals. For over 10 years, I've championed empowering leaders, both present and future, to foster this kind of collaborative spirit. My mission? To ignite the spark of innovation that tackles complex situations with fresh perspectives and creative solutions. What's your approach to fostering a thriving team environment? Share your thoughts in the comments!

Horizon Leadership | Original Quote Series Cultivate a Chorus, Not Clones True leaders don't just delegate tasks - they craft environments where unique strengths and bold ideas are celebrated. In this space, individuality and confidence blossom, becoming the fuel that propels the team towards achieving shared goals. For over 10 years, I've championed empowering leaders, both present and future, to foster this kind of collaborative spirit. My mission? To ignite the spark of innovation that tackles complex situations with fresh perspectives and creative solutions. What's your approach to fostering a thriving team environment? Share your thoughts in the comments!

Being an effective leader doesn't always mean you're the one doing the talking. In most cases, the thing that will make you most effective at leading your team and helping them reach their goals is active listening. If you don't know what's holding your team back or what challenges they face, then how can you begin to address them in a way that's conducive to business goals? It's nearly impossible to lead a team of people when you fail to listen to them in the first place. Remember: True leadership is less about leading the charge and more about empowering others to find their stride. 🚣🏼♀️

The importance of trust is a given. Everyone intuitively know that trust increases team alignment, collaboration, engagement and accountability. This is the "why", but the "what" and "how" to trust is often not a concrete answer and purely based in instinct and gut feeling. This makes difficult to pinpoint reasons to trust on someone. However, assuming that trust depend on the behavior of other people may be your first mistake as a leader, our reactions to other people is what we can truly manage and use to build trust. Can we teach ourselves to act (and react) in ways we encourage trust? This article bring a few questions for reflection about trust within your team, and about your ability to trust? Worth reading and reflecting about what you already do, and what areas you can improve.. https://lnkd.in/d3C4UtxQ #leadership #teamwork #trust #selfimprovement

LISTEN to Understand BEFORE Reply be it a lecturer or COurse chair or at work with any humans

Unlock the secret to effective leadership: Listening. Here's why it's so crucial... You cannot expect people to follow you or listen to you if you do not first listen to them. As a leader, You must know your team. Strengths, passions, skills, motivations, etc... It's a big and ongoing process but crucial to success in life and business. Your team must have faith in you. They have to trust that you are going to take care of them, lead them to prosperity not destruction. How can you care for them if you don't listen to them. How do you know when something is wrong, out of balance, not going well? You have to listen. The more you care about your team, the more they will trust you and lean in to the mission.

Interesting article about Leadership Styles and how to adapt - Drawing on research and experience, Goleman has identified six distinct leadership styles that managers can adapt, depending on the situations and the needs of their team members.

Are You A Bad Leader? This question plagues the best of us. Entire books are written on the subject of leadership, but here is one quick actionable idea that can bring a team together, get alignment when times get tough and facilitate tough conversations when a team member isn't honouring the agreed upon principles. Build a set of "Guiding Principles" with your team. Brainstorm, vote and spread it like a propaganda campaign. You'd be surprised how effective of a team building exercise this can be. Check out the template and implementation guide on our website. 😉 https://lnkd.in/g4xchfNZ

One of the most powerful pieces of advice that was given to me when someone gave me this book was to start culitivating and understanding leadership skills now that I wanted to implement for the future. One of my favorite takeaways from this book so far is, “How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending an outdated position, about building the team more than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.” - Stephen M.R. Covey How would your work change if you implemented this? How would your team change if you all adopted this mentality?

The survey comprised of three simple questions: 1) What are you enjoying most about your leadership role?  2) What has been your biggest accomplishment since our June workshop?  3) What is your biggest frustration right now? It was the majority of responses to the third question which prompted me to write this particular article. There was certainly a very common theme around having no autonomy; no freedom to really lead; the feeling of just being a messenger; or finding things out at the same time as the rest of their team. One of the group wrote, “I feel like I’m just a policeman”; another wrote, “I’m actually not sure if I’m really even a leader, more like a doormat to be honest”; and one of the responses simply said, “I feel like I’m just a puppet”.