Leadership and Business Success- the experts share!

Jenny Flintoft was my guest on the Conversations with Charmaine radio show.

Jenny Flintoft set up her own leadership and business consultancy in 2001 with the single desire to help as enable as many people as possible to become more successful leaders in their work and personal life. After doing that across the world on almost every continent, since 2009 she has purposefully shaped her business to focus on enabling people wherever they are to feel more inspired, motivated, fulfilled and confident in their lives. In a nutshell, Jenny helps you live Your Life – But Better!  Website: www.jennyflintoft.com  You can listen to the interview with Jenny here:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/charmainehammond/2013/05/01/guests-jenny-flintoft-and-greg-kopchuk

Leadership is not just about a position in the workplace, a title or a name plate on an office door, it is about being a leader in one's life.  Jenny shared some tips to help strengthen leadership... one is that little things do matter. Jenny shared different examples of leaders taking little actions that produce big results. She also talked about the role that choice plays in leadership. While we may not have choice about the events and situation that happen at work and in life, we have choice about how we respond, and to ask oneself if how we are behaving/responding is adding value. 

Jenny also encouraged listeners to pay attention to our habits...do they build trust...do the habits foster healthy relationships...do the habits create connections and collaboration? 

As you explore your role as the leader in your life what habits are worth keeping?  What habits need some tweaking? Where is there room to develop some new habits? 

Here are three tips to build your leadership capacity:
1) recognize successes, accomplishments and wins
2) remember that little things do matter and can create big results
3) know that you don't have to know it all, have all the answers, and that is is OK to ask for help

Wishing you a great week being the leader in your life!!

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Leadership Doesn't Mean You Must Have ALL the Answers

What are the moments of leadership that stand out in your mind as a turning point or an AH HA that moved you into action and change? Lisa Chell talked about how turning points and defining moments can really move a team forward. I had the opportunity to interview Lisa on my Conversations with Charmaine Radio Show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/charmainehammond/2012/06/27/guests-cheri-ruskus-and-lisa-chell



Lisa is president of Ultimate Clarity Incorporated and specializes in coaching leaders, managers and decision makers to lead with both logic and heart. As a speaker and coach, she focuses on fresh, instantly usable, breakthrough ideas which give you an easy, immediate action plan that helps you be the leader of your life so you can empower others to do the same. She is a licensed and accredited senior certified and group certified Power Coach with Mind Kinetics as well as an active member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers. She is also a contributing author to the book Succeeding in Spite of everything. Website: http://www.ultimateclarity.com/


The Coach Approach to leadership was explained by Lisa as being able to coach yourself through team, personal and business challenges, so that you can then coach others. One of the challenges many leaders face is that they are promoted to supervisory positions without the development needed, such as coaching tools. These coaching skills become extremely important in helping teams move thorough the emotional aspect of conversations, conflict and change.

There is a tendency to want to move through this part of the conversation quickly, and to solve the issue, however, I know firsthand from my experience as a mediator and dispute resolution expert that the discomfort in these dialogues results in rushing past what matters most. The emotional aspects will continue to surface unless they are effectively addressed and managed. Listen to the show here are Lisa walks you through how to be more effective in these dialogues, and how to model the behaviour and values you want team to incorporate in their own attitudes, and actions. The more comfortable you are as a leader, the higher comfort and safety the team will experience. How you lead, and learn really matters.

Here’s the great news! You don’t have to have all the answers or fix everything. A leader’s rle involves creating the boundaries, environment and culture for the team to safely address the emotional and tough issues with respect and ease.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/charmainehammond/2012/06/27/guests-cheri-ruskus-and-lisa-chell