Take a moment to reflect on the last two years: What was it about your leadership that got your team through? What did it take from you to keep them together, to help them feel safe and feel they mattered and belonged even though it was through a computer screen? If your team did feel all of those things, then you would have accessed the most important and vital leadership skills that are required to be a future-fit leader: compassion; vulnerability; empathy; emotional agility; and listening. For many years these softer human skills and behaviours were not thought to be connected to business results, so were rarely encouraged, or seen as a measure of good leadership to get the next promotion or acknowledgement. To be honest, for a lot of people they were seen as weaker leadership traits and amounted to a reputation of being soft with your team. There is no better time than right now to change the story of what great leadership really means Unfortunately, this has had a huge impact and
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Leadership and Performance Coach and Founder and CEO of The Change Creators, Joanna Howes talks through how you can feel comfortable as a leader when it isn't necessarily something you were born to do.
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