Top Five (x4) Leadership Tips

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By Donna Howes, CHRP

Great leaders are perpetual learners, so here is a compilation of the top five leadership tips from each of our four PeopleTalk Fall 2014 cover story sources.

Nancy Mckinstry

Nancy Mckinstry

Nancy McKinstry
Founding Member,
Minerva Foundation for BC Women

  • The relationships that you build, develop and honour will carry you through—be honest, open and transparent and bring heart to the task.
  • Make culture change inclusive. It has to come from the CEO and trickle down.
  • Address conflict—if there’s an interpersonal conflict, sit down, address it and don’t take anything personally. It is about the business.
  • Be a life-long learner and learn from mistakes quickly—don’t be afraid to ask if you don’t know.
  • Manage the life cycle of your career and keep yourself in the game. Remember you can do everything; you just can’t do it all at once.
Bob Elton

Bob Elton

Bob Elton
Past CEO, BC Hydro

Adjunct Professor, UBC Sauder School of Business

  • Establish relationships before getting down to deal with the issues. If you don’t do that the issues generally don’t get resolved as well— especially when a situation is urgent and a decision needs to be made more quickly.
  • Learn the value of people who may not speak up or act as quickly—often they are able to help you think differently about an issue.
  • Lead from your values—it is largely about connecting who you are with what you do.
  • Have open conversations with people about what is important to you.
  • Even seasoned leaders need to keep learning and there is huge value in ‘reverse mentoring.’
Lisa von Sturmer

Lisa von Sturmer

Lisa von Sturmer
Founder, Growing City

  • Trust yourself—embrace your decisions with confidence and don’t second guess yourself.
  • Create a culture of collaboration—say ‘let’s work together to get the best solution possible” because everyone’s contribution is important before you make a decision.
  • Set an annual strategy—create quarterly, monthly and weekly goals and then focus on what’s important not what’s urgent.
  • Set soul goals to keep each person’s individual goal alive—it ties into community spirit.
  • The emotional side of a workplace is a big driver especially for your people—create the room for the emotional quotient.
Leslie Meingast

Leslie Meingast

Leslie Meingast
CEO, TPD
(formerly known as The Personnel Department)

  • Know yourself and your market and see the potential of all your constituents within and outside of your organization.
  • Lead by example and lead with purpose by having a personal vision and a company vision.
  • Credibility is built on the small things like being on time, doing what you say you will do and saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’
  • Create a cohesive team by having a common language that will draw a pathway to help everyone get to the same end game.
  • Step up and ask if you don’t understand something—clarify it and don’t assume.

Read the full Women in Leadership: Beyond Equality to Business Advantage cover story from PeopleTalk, Fall 2014.

Donna Howes, CHRP is principal of Humanity at Work, a coaching and organization development firm devoted to creating proud and productive workplaces.

(PeopleTalk Fall 2014)

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