Shameless Leadership 932: LEADERSHIP TIPS: Your Leadership Doesn’t Have to Be Loud to Be Heard
I'm here to share something that might give you great relief.
Your leadership doesn’t have to be loud to be LOUD.
When I’m working with leaders and people who are developing leadership skills, there is a common misconception that you have to get louder in volume to be heard. By volume, I mean auditory volume and quantity. People assume they have to speak in a louder voice and/or say more things all the time.
To become a better leader, you might not need to do either of these things.
Instead, you need to determine what style of leadership is authentic for you in this season of life.
When I owned my gym, I became a better leader by quieting my voice to make space for my trainers to showcase theirs. I sat back and let them shine by teaching more classes than me and by letting each of them find their own voice and leadership style in their classes.
As a result, I was able to work behind the scenes to focus on expanding our membership community, create more programming and offers, and build out a strong and stable backend to the business so that my trainers had job security and our members felt supported by all the leaders on my team instead of feeling reliant solely on me for their success.
In this season, I was also a new mom. My quieter, BTS leadership allowed me to be home and present with my son. This was an incredible season of growth for my business, my trainers, and our community. And, I didn’t have to get louder. I just had to get more clear on my role in leading my trainers so they could help me build a phenomenal community. Which they did!
Instead of thinking about how you need to become some loudest-in-the-room, always-speaking-up, and being-seen-doing-all-the-things kind of leader, perhaps you could think about:
- What is the impact you want to have?
- What do you want to build?
- Who do you want to empower to build with you?
- What values do you most want to uphold in this season?
- What is your leadership secret sauce (that thing about the way you lead that calls people in and keeps them motivated to work alongside you)?
As you consider how you want to grow as a leader, think about the skill sets and mindsets you need to develop. Maybe this is getting louder. But, maybe it’s about getting more quiet? Maybe it’s about getting more clear about where you want to go and how you want to get there.
Episode Highlights:
- 00:00 Redefining Loud Leadership
- 02:55 Authenticity in Leadership Styles
- 06:09 Empowering Others in Leadership
- 08:59 The Importance of Collaboration
- 11:47 Finding Your Unique Leadership Voice
- 15:10 Building a Leadership Legacy
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