Additional Insight from the Global Leadership Summit

A few weeks ago I wrote about some of the insightful messages shared at this year’s Global Leadership Summit. I received appreciative feedback, some even said they shared it with their leadership team.

Here are more of my takeaways from the summit. While they are simply mentioned, each is worth our reflection, how it could make a positive difference with our teams and our companies.

Highly effective leaders:

• ask for ideas, feedback and help
• develop and maintain genuine relationships with their people – of all levels
• treat their people with kindness and dignity
• regularly have individual conversations with their team members
• address problems and difficult team members promptly
• respect people’s time, e.g., respond to emails/calls at their first opportunity, meetings have advanced agendas, begin and end on time, and everyone honestly contributes their ideas and thoughts

Ineffective managers:

• do not actively work with their team members, nor do they trust and empower them
• avoid the difficult conversations
• do not have a united, cohesive leadership team
• run inefficient meetings with a lack of agreement and enthusiasm behind decisions
• are poor communicators, and values are not shared throughout the company

Additional important messages:

• In negotiations, we want to be warm, likeable, empathetic, curious, mirror back what we are hearing, stay positive, and avoid putting the other party on the defensive
• We can learn from one another. Make room for people to tell their stories
• Embrace failures. They can be the doorways we pass through to success
• Have faith, be grateful, and keep smiling
• Facts will fade, while stories will stick
• While strengths may impress, we truly connect with others by allowing ourselves to be vulnerable

To me, the bottom line messages validated throughout the summit are that highly effective leaders have humility, are appreciative, kind and thoughtful, trust their people, and their success comes from the success of their team members.

We all would be wise to realize that good leadership saves time, ours and our people’s.

I again encourage you to attend the Global Leadership Summit August 6th and 7th, 2020. Put it on your calendar and try to save the dates. It will be worth it. The summit is shared live at some 600 or more locations through the U.S. and around the world. Its mission is to help improve leadership in our businesses, churches and communities. It is packed with intuition and inspiration.