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Leadership principles are easy

Truth.


Leadership principles like

  • Listening

  • Asking open questions

  • Involving your team

  • Inviting respectful challenges or diverse points of view

  • Speaking last in meetings

  • Communicating the why behind the what

  • Pushing back to your leadership to protect your team

  • Offering emotional support

  • Being vulnerable


are easy, when things are going well and you like, respect and work well with the people around you.


Those same principles are hard when the sh!t has hit the fan, the pressure is on and your team / people are stressed out.


Thing is, it is in these high pressure, stressful times that you need those leadership principles the most

 
 
 

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