E29: Your strength as a leader comes from yourself

Leadership is about helping people to realize their potential. If you want to lead, you must learn to listen. People often think that leaders are born, not made. But leadership is learned. Leaders are learners. They learn from experience, from mistakes, from successes, from other people. They learn from themselves and from each other. They learn to ask questions, to seek answers, to understand why things happen. In this episode, we have guest Stacy Ashley, High-Performance Leadership and Coaching Expert. Stacy Ashley talks about that you need to be connected, have the skill set to connect to yourself because your strength as a leader comes from yourself. She talks about how you must be able to contribute as a leader and provide leadership to the people who are looking to you for leadership. "Leadership is about helping people to bring those gifts out and really help people to realize their potential" Stacy Ashley Key takeaways: 1. Understand how leadership is about helping people to realize their potential. 2. Recognizing that being able to communicate online is a new important leadership skillset. 3. Understand how you can improve as a leader by stopping speaking as much and starting to listen more.