Transformational Leadersship: Shining LIGHT

Far too often leaders feel overwhelmed by the everyday demands of their jobs and they in turn disengage from the ideal of workers flourishing and doing their best work. They love the idea of workers flourishing and of a flourishing bottom line, but are not actively engaged in a leadership project that allows it to happen.

For me, it's about shining LIGHT:
Listening
Integrity
Generosoty
Heart
Truth

Let's explore....

Dream Dare Dazzle

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome back everyone. Last week we explore the more depth
the principle of flourishing, flourishing leaders, workers and really importantly
your customers, our customers. This week I'd like to talk

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about about teaching, about sharing the knowledge and information that
you have, and there's a bit more about it's it's
not so much what you know is what you can teach.
How can you get that information across? How can you
get that information across to someone transfer that information, that knowledge,

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these beautiful insights, How can you teach that to someone else?
I found in my global travel that leaders often feel
overwhelmed but everyday demands of their job, and because of that,
disengage from the.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Ideal of of workers flourishing doing their best work. They
love the idea of workers flourishing and of course a
flourishing border online, but really they're not actually engage in
any leadership, any formal leadership projects.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
That allows that to happen. So why is that most
leaders I meet and organizations come to work and want
to do good work and what make a difference. Unfortunately,
they allow themselves to overwhelm them by their to do
lists become highly transactional. They lose sight of what dries

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working enthusiasm for doing their best work. They allow the
nasayers and negative nellies to convert the thinking from possibility
based thinking to probability type thinking. The truths about leadership
is that strong leaders become transformational leaders. Leaders who want

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to do their best work, who want others to do
their best work, and they surround themselves with transformational workers.
Transformational leaders are not intimidated be smart, talented, and driven workers,
and the other other hand, they feel they're embolden and

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relentless about surround themselves the brightest and the best so
elevates everyone. Transformational leaders recognize that transformational workers needed and
seek opportunities to learn, grow, and expand their skill set

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as well as their mindset. They're never content to simply
may maintain and remain with the status goal. When the
rhythm of work becomes too repetitive, results become predictable, transformational
workers will create new opportunities where they are, or they'll

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leave and look for them elsewhere. Week leaders, in the
other hand, surround themselves with weak workers. Week leaders feel
as though they must keep workers from surpassing them, and
they're afraid having workers show them up. They, in turn

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surround themselves with people who are content where they are,
and they're really less interesting in learning, growing, and innovation.
Your leadership project that we're talking about here well help
you implement what we've been talking about in the previous
podcast so you can become a strong and transformational leader.

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This project is a primary tool you can use for internalizing,
personifying all that you've learned while illuminating the path or
other workers to follow. Member, we said this before. With
a compelling and virtuous purpose, clear promises strategic parties that

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support you and your workers doing the best work. Your
leadership project the hell we not only accomplish your business results,
but make a positive difference in the lives of your workers. Hi,
and again, you've got it. This in turn makes a
positive difference in the lives of your customers. By helping

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your workers love a rewarding and enriching life. Your project
will be transformed from a boring, mind numbing, draining type
of project into a project of something valuable and important.
And my travels from the Arctic Circle to Australia, I

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met some really powerful, empowering, transformational leaders from the deck
of an anchor handling vessel and then all see to
the to the courts of Australia. Those type of coaches

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leaders infuse people's thinking, giving them greater confidence, hope and
optimism that really gets the fires burning and gets their
workers enthused and striving to do their very best work. Okay,
from them, I've learned that caring eye caring for another

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person is the first step in changing his or her thinking.
If I didn't feel like that, I wouldn't be speaking
due just now of the possibilities, however, and are busy
in fracture lives, we have the choice. Choice is these

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transformation leaders to shed light into those areas that you
have that appear to be darkened, to new possibilities, an
opportunity there in the darkness to plant seeds of hope
where there's despair and growing optimism, optimism where there's uncertainly

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and fear. And it's by nurturing, shining a light, uttering
and keeping it nurturing. Take the weeds that come up
from time to time, pull them out, keep on adding the
extra vitamins that can help nourish and grow your people everyone, yourselves,

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your customers, and your workers. If we do this, we
find that everyone's well being and willingness to except themselves
to achieve new and bigger potential habits. The moment the
seeds of optimism and hope are planting in the world

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of work, the potential for increased productivity and profitabilities and
increases proportionately. So how do we do that well? One
of my colleagues uses the word light and the pneumonic

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two positively influence the people in organizations have been working
to and I believe you can do the same. So
light stands for number one. Listening listening to understand, and
it's simply the answer to give a response, not giving

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judgments of what you hear, but being fully president to
hear hear people's fears, hopes, complaints and concern. And you
probably know that every teenager and yourn adult wants to
know they've been listened to and understood. I am sure

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you're like my parents listen to his want the best
for us. But many times our parents and hope of
making a strong, strong adults, they listen to respond rather
than listening to understand. And with active listening conversations people

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within them, people that you're having in the conversation, they
feel valued, important, and above all, they feel heir number
two in light integrity, it's aligning your values with your behaviors.

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There's a coach that once said sports doesn't build character,
it reveals it. So story I played with some people
are really avid amateur golfers, but you soon realize the
character when the golfs, the golf clubs are thrown over

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the dyke, throwing over the wall when things don't go well.
And from a leadership perspective, this was changed. Adversity doesn't
build character, it reveals it. So how do you get on?
How's your character? How's the people around you? When confronted

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with adversity? Is what you say and do? Would people
say it's credible and trustworthy because it's a follow through
when we wee speak the good talk. I remember I
was up in the Shetland Islands and I was running

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a process safety integrity management workshop and someone said, oh,
is this the classic boheka? I said, do you mean eureka? No,
no boheka, bend over here it comes again. This is
management bullshit. I said, no, this one will certainly. This

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what I'm sharing with you can save a life, can
save your lives, protect you and our community here they're
a long way from the mainland, a long way for
additional support. What we do here, if we maintain integrity,

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keep the oil and gas within the pipelines and vessels,
we're in a different place. It's all about integrity, tigerty management,
and behind that is the people, the behaviors, the attitudes
and values that we apply to the work that we're doing.
So continue within the light. The G stands for generosity.

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It's being a generous person, finding time, finding time for
everyone that you're speaking to her with to make sure
that he or she is very important, the were important
and valued. Is it like being an integral part of

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yourself of being a caring person making space and time
for others? The memory I had a marvelous lesson of
generosity from my father in law with many, many moons ago.
We're just married, come back from our honeymoon, and we
didn't have a lot of money at all, and he

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gave me. It was fifty pounds in these days today
it means nothing, but in that that was virtually a
month's salary giving a young couple. That that generosity has
stayed with me a lifetime. Whenever I see someone struggling,

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be it time, money, skill sets. I share, I share
the information, share the knowledge and give practical ways of
how it can be applied. And the age stands for
heart to heart connection. It's about building relationships based on love,

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care and residents. You know that if you speak to
someone virtually instantly, are we on the same wavelength? How
do you feel about them? It's that heart connection. And
it's about genuinely caring for people. People that you're coaching.

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Every person's hopes, dreams and aspiration. It can be very
fragile at time and worthy of attention creating space for that.
And for me, it's about planting the seed of courageousness

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in yourself and others. And where I found me. I
had that as a youngster and what it does and
me particularly, it cultivated the belief that with focus, hard
work and discipline, the hopes, dreams and aspirations were really possible.

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I remember as a young child my dad he worked
in the forestry and to help them remove the trees
down from the forest from the wood, he had a horse.
He had it with a friend of his. He had
bought half a horse and that was it. And as

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a young man, particularly working the army, he never thought
that would be able to own anything at all on
his any property, or any any animal, any beasts or anything.
And this was the start of a marvelous journey that
my dad had and he shared that with me. He

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shared these insights and he gave me. He created that
environment that I could I could grow, I could focus
and see that my dreams. There were opportunities to make
my dream come true. And the final one, the Tea
and Light is telling the truth. And sometimes some would

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say it's cruel to be kind, but it's been truthful.
It's telling people what they need to hear, but in
a kindly, weigh a caring way, so you could hear it,
you wouldn't just clothes close down in it. And for me,
what that says is it's really been a master communicator.

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I've met people who say, oh, we're brutally honest and
believe that's virtues. I've found them to more brutality in
their message than honesty. However, that's because how they deliver
their message down the stunning ways. They're talking ways that

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work for them but not for the person that they're
speaking to, telling people, telling people what they need to
hear in ways they can hear it involves and want
to be generous, a learning behavior with your vows and

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listening to the other person and to know really how
best to talk with them. Really, it's pretty simple. Performance, innovation,
growth and commitment. They start to deteriorate, they get tired

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when the leaders lose sight of their role making positive
difference in the lives of those A leader marriage having
in an appreciable increase in the performance, innovation, collaboration with
your team and organization. It requires a generous focus on
shedding light and all your personal interactions. By shedding light,

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you'll transform your workers' hopes and aspirations. You'll change them
to something that's really it's real and tangible. They can
touch it, feel it, see it. That's your role to
help you, your team, your organization to dream day in

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dazzle your world. Yeah, we'll continue your journey again next
week and we'll talk about cascading excellence throughout your organization.
Tell them go and light up the world, light up
your workforce, light up your customers, and keep that flame

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burning deep within yourself till the next week. By now,