“Leadership is About Emotion”

Forbes Meghan M. Biro

Levels of Leadership

•  Admiration goes beyond accomplishments

•  Includes admiration on an emotional level

Levels of Leadership

•  Intellectual and rational levels

•  Inspiration leads to our best selves and deliverance of amazing work

Can Leadership be Learned?

•  While there are natural born leaders, those who fall short can work on certain leadership skills

•  This can lead to increased usage of talent and integration into the culture of your company

Tools that Allow for Talent to Shine

•  Emotional intelligence

•  Continuous learning

•  Contextualize

•  Let Go

•  Honesty

•  Kindness and Respect

•  Collaboration

•  Partner with your people

Emotional Intelligence

•  Have empathy

•  Able to read peoples needs and desires and fulfill them

•  Creates a bond

Continuous Learning

•  Allows for curiosity and insatiable desire to thrive

•  Rarely satisfied with the status quo

•  Welcome new knowledge and fresh input

•  Investing in yourself

Contextualize

•  Respond to each challenge with a fresh eye

•  What works in one situation can be useless in another

•  Understand specifics of situation and tailor actions accordingly

Let Go

•  Great leaders inspire, and then get out of the way

•  Talented people don’t want hovering managers

•  Influence, guide and support but never control

Honesty

•  Be true to your core

•  Don’t try to “measure up” out of fear of not being accepted

•  Set an example to lead your organization

•  Makes it easier to deliver bad news and face tough challenges

Kindness and Respect

•  Nice leaders don’t finish last

•  Avoid ignorance and arrogance

•  Treat everyone with a basic level of respect

•  Give kindness to all, even if they don’t deserve it

•  Creates easier and more impactful jobs

Collaboration

•  The more integral employees feel as a partner, the better the results that are delivered

•  Communicate organization’s strategies, goals and challenges

•  Builds buy-in and keeps people in the loop

Partner With Your People

•  Do everything you can to help employees reach their career goals

•  Even if this means they will eventually leave your organization

•  Leads to happy, productive employees who work with passion and commitment

Conclusion to Leadership

•  Everyone needs to develop their own leadership style

•  Reach people on an emotional level

•  Be human