Leadership Advisors Podcast: Recent Episodes
Leadership Advisors Group
Phil Eastman gives insight on the importance of effective leadership in today's rapidly changing environment.
If you do an image search on leadership you’ll find that most of the results do not portray effective leadership. Phil discusses the importance of understading you leadership role as something more than just a position.
As an organization grows, the number of leaders also grows. And when two or more people are working together, there is bound to be conflict. Phil shares his experience of dealing with conflict in the workplace.
Character is an integral part of our definition of authenticity. Character is not all it takes to be an authentic leader but you can’t lead authentically without it. Make no mistake about it, the issues we face in our world today are issues of character in leadership.
People are looking for leaders who are real, transparent, and authentic. We are in the midst of cultural change. It’s not easy to be authentic as you lead people, but it is the best way to lead. You’ll have longer lasting results when you are real with people than you will if you are coercive.
Many times when we talk about leadership we are talking about a role or a position. But leadership is not necessarily either of those things, it’s the influence you have over the people within your organization and eventually your community. Authentic leadership is something that you will always be working for, it’s a constant process.
Leaders want to see superior results in their organization. Your people’s performance is a factor to the success. But it’s not the only thing that drives production. In order to get superior results, you must lead in the correct way, and we believe you must lead authentically.
Before you can begin leading others to embrace a change, you have to embrace it as the leader. Phil concludes with some final steps to take as you lead your people through change.
You have the power to set your people up for success by taking the time to ensure they understand the change in its entirety and helping them to commit to the change, there’s now a solid foundation for the last step. Phil discusses the last part of the three-step process for you to take with your employees to help them get on board with the change.
If you don’t consider how your people are processing the change, you may be missing out on some benefits. The success of the change is in the hands of the people making the changes. Phil continues his discussion on leadership with the first two major steps you have to take with your employees to help them get on board with the change.
It is the leader’s task to make sure the change is presented in the correct way to ensure the people are willing to make the change. Even if change does not seem like a big deal to the leader, it feels overwhelming to those being led. Phil continues his discussion on leadership with ideas about change.
Leading people through change is a multi-step process. Before you cast the vision, before you roll out the new system, you have to know what the expected benefits of this change are or in other words, you need to know what it is you are trying to achieve with this transition. Phil continues his discussion on leadership as he shows us how to begin an effective change.
Though many of us view leading people as a soft or abstract skill, it can actually have some very concrete results. Phil continues his discussion on leadership as he guides us through a paradigm shift.
Many times when we talk about leadership we are talking about a role or a position. But leadership is not necessarily either of those things, it’s the influence you have over the people within your organization and eventually your community. Authentic leadership is something that you will always be working for, it’s a constant process.