Leaders Need a Push Too

Building a safe environment where peoople can think and express how they feel, is healthy. A place where they feel valued, respected, and inspired, will help them take ownership and be accountable. If you’re leading, are you building trust? The post How do you create trust? appeared first on Connie Warner.

There are many leaders who affect their culture because they keep breaking trust without meaning to. They are not aware enough to know how their behaviour affects the people they lead. Do you recognize your trustbuster? What do you have to do about it? The post What is your trustbuster? appeared first on Connie Warner.

Samuel Floss’s poem The Calf Path has such a message for us as leaders. What will it take for us to learn to try something new when the old way isn’t working anymore. We do get ourselves into ruts that are deep and well trodden by those before us. But times are so different! We […] The post Walking on a Calf Path appeared first on Connie Warner.

Leadership roles come in many styles. Traditionally extroverted behaviour seemed to be needed to guide and motivate employees and encourage teamwork. Introverts may have been considered to be too quiet and unassertive to successfully handle the many challenges of leadership. My experience with the strengths of an introvert have made me understand and value their many talents. The post Benefits of an Introverted Leader appeared first on Connie Warner.

The message really is about understanding how we are seen as leaders. We need to understand who we really are and who we need to become in order to lead effectively. Getting clear on the gaps, setting a plan for change, then changing the behaviour, sounds very overwhelming. However, with a great coach to support […] The post How do we change the things we know we need to change if we want to lead? appeared first on Connie Warner.

Leaders are seen wearing a mask of “victim” when they lack confidence in their ability to lead, afraid to lose control and blame others when things go wrong. Or they have a fear of making tough decisions and allow the team to take control. Whatever the reason is, we are setting ourselves up for failure, […] The post Do you lead like a victim or do you take your power back? appeared first on Connie Warner.

Learning how to recognize how our team feels about us, makes us realize how they have branded our behaviour. Deciding to take control of how we are seen, begins with self awareness. Changing our demeanour and understanding how we present ourselves when we are communicating good and bad news to our people, gets the results […] The post Changing behaviour in order to lead appeared first on Connie Warner.

Being brave enough to speak your truth takes confidence. Self awareness and developing your strengths will give you the confidence you need to express your feelings. It means being vulnerable, and when you can do that you realize it is a strength not a weakness. Change happens! The post Vulnerability is scary when you are not confident appeared first on Connie Warner.

Learning to be resilient in a toxic environment is necessary if you are going to lead. Being self aware and capable of remaining positive enough to take the actions required to turn a toxic team around, takes skills. It begins with understanding your own feelings and not buying into other ‘s negative tapes. The post Smart ways to deal with toxic people appeared first on Connie Warner.

Dan Goleman quotes: ‘Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head – feeling and thought – meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar’. That can only happen when we as leaders take the time to be mindful, reflective, and willing to sharpen our focus and attention to achieve self awareness. The post Stop! Look! Listen to Yourself! appeared first on Connie Warner.

When we become Self Aware and independent we are capable of seeing a bigger picture. It allows us to look outside of ourselves and to become Socially Aware of others. Seeking to understand another person teaches us to be kind, keep commitments,clarify expectations, and speak in adult without judgement. The post Steven Covey’s 3 Habits for Creating Interdependence appeared first on Connie Warner.

Steven Covey’s 7 Habits can make life as a leader so much easier. The first 3 habits are about becoming self aware and learning to be independent by taking responsibility for your actions. Becoming clear on what you want in your life, expressing it, and setting priorities to make it happen. The post The first 3 habits of Steven Covey’s 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People appeared first on Connie Warner.

Blame can become a habit that drains the life out of relationships in the workplace. By blaming others we are refusing to take responsibility for our own feelings. Learning to be accountable for how we feel and expressing it in an adult way will help build a thriving culture. As a leader we have a […] The post Blame destroys trust appeared first on Connie Warner.

There is a tremendous amount of information on how to become a great leader. Practice makes perfect! The more aware you become of the necessary skills you need to be a leader that people will follow, the easier your job gets. Paying attention and constantly learning will help you become the inspiration that your people […] The post Quotes for leaders to live by appeared first on Connie Warner.

Following a leader with profound strengths makes being their employee a wonderful experience. When they can inspire, motivate, get results, be strategic, collaborate, walk their talk, be trustworthy, develop and support their team, build relationships, and have courage, you have a leader who makes a significant impact on the engagement of the employees. The post Leaders we love to follow appeared first on Connie Warner.

As training budgets get cut back, middle managers are put into positions without the training and support that is necessary to build effective teams. They do the best they can based on the role models they have had. That is not good enough in our society today. It is time to create self and social […] The post Life with an untrained middle manager appeared first on Connie Warner.

The first of five keys that Google uses to build effective teams is Psychological safety. That means an environment of trust. That must be the very first factor that a leader begins with when building a culture. Where there is trust there is success! The post Focus your team culture on TRUST appeared first on Connie Warner.

Wikipedia definition: A toxic leader is a person who has responsibility over a group of people or an organization, and who abuses the leader–follower relationship by leaving the group or organization in a worse-off condition than when s/he first found them. Their leadership style is both self-destructive and ultimately corporately harmful as they subvert and destroy organizational structures. The post Toxic Leaders come in many different styles appeared first on Connie Warner.

Humiliation, sarcasm, distrust, meddling, and passive aggressive behaviour are all types of bullying. This creates a toxic environment, and we know there is much more of that going on than ever should be in today’s society. We know better. We don’t live in the dark ages! It is time for people who are given positions […] The post Toxic leadership destroys the workplace appeared first on Connie Warner.

Building trust in your team takes courage to admit mistakes and to speak from your heart. Sometimes leaving your ego at the door is the greatest courage you can present to your people. The post Can you say “I made a mistake”? appeared first on Connie Warner.