Superb technical skills, alone, are inadequate to face challenges in the workplace. Soft skills are what drives organizational growth.
Soft skills are the emotional and social intelligence skills. These are the skills that enable leaders to show up as their best selves, and enable others to rise to their best selves.
Nada Nasserdeen is the founder and CEO of Rise Up For You. She is a Leadership and Career Confidence Coach, No.1 Bestselling Author, and TEDx Motivational Speaker.
With over 10 years of experience as a college professor and former top executive for an education corporation, Nada understands the importance of using education, empowerment, and leadership together as she works with her clients and speaks to audiences worldwide. She has toured the world as a singer, has a Master’s degree in Administrative Leadership, and has coached and mentored close to 50,000 individuals around the world on self-empowerment, career strategy, and soft skills.
In this episode, Nada doubles down on the power of servant leadership, leadership that sets aside ego, one that allows looking at the whole picture of the company.
What you will learn from this episode:
“If you're allowing your insecurities to prevent you from now having that big picture, then we're in trouble. We're not practicing leadership, right? What we're practicing is the opposite of that. It's service for ourselves, right? It's selfish leadership. And that's not what we want.”
Topics Covered:
01:55 - What leader’s challenge does she focus on specializing and dealing with?
02:45 - The whole gamut of soft skills and people challenges she helps with
04:23 - What does it look like when leaders find for answers outside of themselves?
05:35 - How to help leaders realize that which they are not aware of and no knowledge about in terms of their own shortcomings?
07:28 - How to find a leader’s Personal Board of Directors and the important roles they play
10:18 - Recalling the time she uses the same strategy, surveying herself and how she found out her blind spots
11:38 - The words they used to describe her in the survey
12:47 - The challenges and benefits of service leadership
13:56 - The positive outcome of those anonymous surveys she did on herself
15:26 - The challenge that we see today in the soft skills of our leaders
16:16 - How to exercise the soft skill muscle when you hear negative feedback
19:21 - The emotional intelligence kit - 18 competencies under it
20:42 - Why do soft skills matter?
24:17 - An inspiring thought from Nada
Key Takeaways:
“The top challenge that I deal with leaders is people problems, people challenges, challenges that are happening in the workspace which all comes down to human behaviors. So how we communicate with one another, how we show up, how we respond to one another, and inversely, how it affects our work in the workspace.”
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