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Becoming a Mid 21st Century Leader - Towanna Burrous - The Impactful Leadership Show - Episode # 017

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Start increasing your team’s effectiveness by understanding the challenges of your employees better and looking after yourself. Dr. Towanna Burrous is a bestselling author, ICF Professional Certified Coach, and Founder and President of CoachDiversity Institute. You’ll hear about setting restrictions for your work, using your strategic plan to create better predictions for your company, and why leaders need to express greater empathy to their team.

 

Takeaways:

  • Leaders are not inanimate objects. They think and feel just like every other employee and require the same amount of support and care as everyone else.
  • For new leaders, consider what skills you are missing. Create a list of what areas you need to skill up in and begin to learn about those areas. You don’t need to become a master in the field, but you should start developing your baseline understanding.
  • New leaders need to increase their empathy and be able to support the people they lead differently than they have in the past by working with them to fulfill their unmet needs.
  • If you don’t look after yourself, you won’t be able to step in at the right times and be as effective as you could be. What do retreat and professional development look like to you? Where do you add value to your ultimate goal?
  • Set restrictions on when you are available for work and stick to them, this will go a long way to improving your self-care. If your employees embrace these restrictions as well, they will also reap the benefits and the results will show in your company.
  • By limiting the time you commit to working in your business, you give yourself the time you need to continue reading and learning.
  • Use your strategic plan as a living document that you can add to every year while keeping the previous years’ plans intact. This gives you historical, current, and future views of your company which aid your predictions of what’s coming next.   

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    Quote of the Show:

    • “Leaders are employees too” - Towanna Burrous

     

    Links:

    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/towannaburrous/
  • Company website: https://coachdiversity.com/
  • Book: https://www.amazon.com/CALL-Inspiring-Character-Accountability-Leadership/dp/0692720359/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493568907&sr=8-1&keywords=the+call+towanna

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    Shout Outs:

    • Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

     

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