The Best Leaders Give Their Best to Their People by...

1. Growing

- To give people your best, you have to elevate your leadership capacity.

- Metaphor: When walking up a narrow staircase, you can only go as fast as the person in front of you. When leaders grow, they ascend the stairs and create space for those behind them to climb higher.

-Personal growth involves challenging yourself, and pushing beyond the realm of comfort.

2. Serving

[Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile-Albert Einstein]

-Serving others is an attitude issue.

-But sadly, many leaders operate under a king-of-the-hill mentality.

-Best leaders take a different approach.

-They extend a hand to lift the performance of teammates and coworkers.

-They function with a mindset of abundance and wield their influence to prop others up rather than to elevate themselves.

-Serving is a motives issue, and the crux of the matter boils down to a simple question: "who?"

-The best leaders set a tony by serving and prove they are deserving of being out in front.

3.Modelling

-Growing leaders have something to share.

-Serving leaders have something to give.

-Modelling leaders have something to show.

[Leaders tell, but never teach, until they practice what they preach-VJ Featherstone]

-The best leaders embody their values.

-Their passion exudes from every pore and demands respect.

The Best Leaders Get the Best from Their People By...

1.Listening

-The smartest leaders realise the limitations of their wisdom, and they listen to their people to capture invaluable insights.

-They don't listen just to gain knowledge, they also listen to give people permission.

.permission to challenge the process

.permission to test assumptions

.permission to take risks

-Nothing turns off an up-and-coming leader like the dear ear of a superior.

-Best leaders don't simply listen to incoming ideads, they proactively draw them out of their people.

-They listen actively, not passively.

2.Relating

-Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

-To touch a heart, a leader has to be open to disclosing his or her identity by sharing personal stories and owning up to professional weaknesses.

-Mysterious or aloof leaders may be successful decision-makers, but they won't get the heartfelt loyalty that comes from authentic relationships.

-Making a person feel known correlates powerfully to their job satisfaction.

-Leaders dignify their people by studying their interests, learning about their families and finding out their hobbies.

-Conscious of the power of connection, the best leaders refuse to be barricaded inside an office, and they take responsibility for relating with others on a regular basis.

3.Teaching

-The best leaders have an infectious thirst for knowledge, and they take pride in cultivating knowledge of their craft and awareness of their industry.

-A leader's teaching ability depends upon ongoing personal growth.

[If you stop growing today, you stop teaching tomorrow-Howard Hendricks]

4.Developing

-The best leaders understand the differences between training people for tasks and developing people to be better leaders.

Training Developing

[Focus on the job] [Focus on the person]

[Adds value to specific things] [Adds value to everything]

[Helpful for a short time] [Helpful for a lifetime]

[Changes a performance] [Changes the performer]

-The best leaders view their people as appreciable assets and prioritise investing in the talent of their teams.

5.Motivating

-If you listen, relate, teach, and develop your people, then they will be motivated.

-Sustained motivation comes by creating the right environment for your people and by doing the right things consistently nurture them.

-Considering a flower

.cannot grow in the artic(requires a climate conductive to growth)

.but in the right environment, the flower must be[to fill in]

.planted in hospitable soil, exposed to sunlight, watered, and freed of weeds.