Each week I collect the resources related to leadership I shared on social media the prior week, with the accompanying quotations.
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Lolly Daskal:
“Showing Appreciation: How to Let Your Employees Know They Matter” (2-8-23).
“Communicate appreciation daily: As a leader, it is important to make sure to regularly communicate your appreciation for your employees. This can be as simple as thanking them for their hard work and dedication, or recognizing them for a job well done. As a result, consistently expressing gratitude, you can create a culture of appreciation within your organization.”
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Julie Winkle Giulioni:
“Compensating for compensation: Keeping talent when dollars don’t work” (2-9-23).
“[B]eyond creating a deep relationship and instilling positive emotions in the employee, this understanding of what’s motivating them is at the heart of being able to take meaningful action that may in part compensate for the inability to offer more money.”
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Kathy Gersch:
“Boost employee engagement through learning and development” (2-13-23).
“The availability of individualized growth opportunities can be a key motivator and a way to build loyalty toward the employer brand. This tactical approach to engaging employees through learning experiences and skills-building courses ensures companies retain their best people in a volatile talent management environment.”
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Bobby Hoffman:
“The Words That Successful Leaders Use:
How you craft a message, and the power of certain words, make all the difference.” (2-8-23).
“[C]ommunication should satisfy the basic human needs of autonomy and competence. Autonomy means the message recipient does not feel coerced or controlled by the request and believes they have some choices when implementing a message. Competence suggests that the person will feel a sense of personal accomplishment and satisfaction when executing a persuasion effort. The probability of successful persuasion is enhanced by using ‘invitational language.'”
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David Burkus:
“6 Leadership Myths That Are Ruining Your Team” (1-30-23).
“[A]s you move up in an organization, and as your ‘team’ starts to be a collection of different roles with different preferences, your preferred style becomes less important. It stops being about how you want to lead and starts being about how they want to be led—and led on an individual level. The best leaders understand the motivations and skillsets of each of their people individually and adjust their leadership style accordingly.”
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“Toyota founder’s son, who led global growth, dies at 97” (2-14-23).
“After becoming Toyota’s president in 1982, Shoichiro Toyoda helped direct Toyota’s transformation into a global automaker, especially in the vital U.S. market, where its brand became synonymous with quality, durability, cost performance and engineering finesse.”
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Dan Sanchez on the legacy of Leonard Read, the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education:
“A Legacy of Light:
How Leonard Read’s electric candle illuminated the world.” (2-14-23).
“[N]ever underestimate the power that even the smallest of lights can have against the darkness.”
