Leading with empathy and inclusion
Creating leaders and managers with unique positive characters allows them to bring out the best in everyone and create a team environment where everyone is able and confident to be themselves. Never before has knowing your values been so important. Think authentic vs. professional leadership.
When everyone can be themselves at work, we will build a happier and more productive society. People work for their leader, their manager, the positive characters of these people in the workplace are vital to championing relationships that bring to life a feeling of unity, belonging and trust.
When you think about developing yourself or others as leaders and managers our movement suggests that you move away from a traditional back to basics approach. The latest statistics and evidence show clearly that people want positive culture, great authentic, natural and engaged leaders and managers and the flexibility where possible to allow a hybrid approach to the team. Ground yourself in your natural positive character and be the best of you.
In a world where people want more than a job, they want to belong, be themselves and make a difference, thriving energetic leaders in the workplace are more important than ever before.
How to get there? When we understand and nurture our leaders and managers as their true selves, they can have dynamic and fulfilling careers that play to their strengths and happiness. Helping these individuals uncover their true values and purpose enables them to increase their zeal and productivity.
As a leader, embrace and celebrate your own and everyone’s uniqueness. In the workplace culture, activate a new way by teach how to give freedom to teams. Freedom vs. delegation. Freedom vs. empowerment. Freedom vs. recognition.
Each individual needs a space to be themselves. As long as they are competent, live positively within the inclusive culture, align to the purpose of the organisation in what they do, and deliver, how they go about their work should align to them, their character, their skills, their unique difference.
For too long, traditional businesses have recruited from a like-minded set, and encouraged conformity.
This kind of thinking not only suppresses personalities, it makes for stagnant workplaces, where outside the box thinking is actively diminished. Smart businesses value truly diverse workforces, who bring unique perspectives and together have a combustible energy that engenders huge leaps in progress.
We’re more than a movement. #BeYourselfAtWork is the future of the workplace: a community of individuals, unafraid to express their true selves, and are thriving and driving businesses forward as a result.
#BeYourselfAtWork is inviting leaders to reimagine the workplace. Together let’s drive a new era, setting the individual free: let’s lead with empathy and inclusion, let’s encourage our teams to know themselves better, and welcome the individuals that emerge from that. And let’s enjoy soaring productivity and drive as a result. Let’s start today.
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Creating leaders and managers with unique positive characters allows them to bring out the best in everyone and create a team environment where everyone is able and confident to be themselves.
#BeYourselfAtWork.
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