Tag: trust

Leadership

What Can Leaders Learn from Improv Comedy?

Premise It was a Sunday evening, and we had decided to go attend a theatre performance. It was not a typical performance, well rehearsed, with carefully scripted dialogues, choreographed movements or a strong background music. Instead, two people walked onto a bare stage and asked us, the audience, some simple questions to come up with a scene, a place, some characters and a situation. There was no script. No rehearsal. No safety net. They had to act out the scene and move the situation forward. An actor starts the show and says something absurd (since it is a comedy show). […]

Leadership

The Speed of Trust – Built Slowly, Lost in a Hurry!

I read this blog post by Gapingvoid yesterday about Trust. In the post they share the story of Robert Goodman and Jesse Jackson and how Jesse freed Robert from Syria by changing the game – from one government against another, to one human fighting for the freedom of another. Jackson had built his reputation as a humanitarian. One decision, one action at a time. The same is true for all of us. Trust and reputation are created slowly – one decision, one action at a time, drip by drip. It is depleted in a hurry – one decision and one […]

Leadership

How to Get People to Listen to You?

This post talks about 7 things we can do to get people to listen to us and what we have to say. If we want to lead and grow in our organisation, it is important that people we lead, who lead us and our peers listen to us, our ideas and take them seriously.

Leadership

Two Crucial Responsibilities of Good Leaders

As leaders, we have two crucial responsibilities: 1. Believe that you are at the right position and at the right time and that either you have the skills needed to succeed with the team or have the capacity to learn what you need to succeed as a team. 2. Help your team develop their self belief by believing in them and lead them to success. As they say, their success is their success and their failure is yours. In success and in failure, look for lessons to learn that can help us in becoming better and increase our belief in […]