Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say and What You Don't

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Every time you use your senses of sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell, electric signals travel throughout your body and into your brain, gathering in your frontal lobe (just behind your forehead) to form a perception about the world in front of you. These sensory signals pass through the emotion-creating limbic center just before reaching the reasoning area of your frontal lobe, giving you an emotional, intuitive picture of the world around you. Accompanying these intuitions are physical responses: a lump in your throat for sadness, flushing with heat for anger, paralysis for fear, rapid heartbeat and sweating for anxiety and anticipation. These emotions are finely tuned, sophisticated tools that have evolved over millions of years-ignore them at your peril. What does a book published in 1911 about steel mill management have to do with the 2017 Academy Awards fiasco? Why are so many airplane crashes ultimately attributed to poor communications between pilot and copilot? Let’s imagine an alternate reality in which the crew of El Faro felt psychologically safe enough to question the captain’s decision. In this scenario, the captain took the time to meet with his first mate before departure. “I’m excited you’re on the team,” he told her. “Our differences in age and gender probably mean we’ll bring different perspectives to the table. I encourage you to share your opinions, and I commit to listening to what you have to say.” CIPD members can use our online journalsto find articles from over 300 journal titles relevant to HR.

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Give the pause a name – to make sure employees know how to call a pause. The pause could be called a “time-out,” saying “hands-off,” or raising a yellow card or a hand (p. 91). A pause is “practicing resilience.” And “there are no unnecessary pauses. Regardless of whether it turns out the pause was justified, every pause is necessary to establish a culture in which people are comfortable raising their hands” (p. 92). Commit, don’t comply–Rather than expect your team to comply with specific directions, explain your overall goals, and get their commitment to achieving it one piece at a time.

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In a complex, fast-changing world, long-term survival is more about adaptation than achievement” (p. 287). The red-blue operating system gives organizations and leaders the tools to adapt. ROSS, S. (2019) Why some talented leaders succeed while others derail. Human Resources (online). March. pp38-40. Here is the key difference: Thinking benefits from embracing variability. Doing benefits from reducing variability. Words are important,” said Isaac Oates, CEO of Justworks, an HR, benefits and payroll platform. “It’s through our words that we communicate our intentions.” Organisations can undertake various activities to enhance an individual's leadership capabilities. Our management development factsheet explains how to identify development needs and how to develop leaders and managers.

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In 1906, the English polymath Francis Galton attended a country fair. At one stand, visitors were asked to guess the weight of an ox on display; whoever came closest would win the animal. After the contest ended, the ever-curious Galton collected and analyzed all the votes. What he found was that the collective average of the guesses came closer to the real number than all but a few of the individual guesses. The group, in other words, knew better than almost any individual fairgoer. Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the decision at hand. Chunk work for frequent completes early, few completes late – because the beginning of a project involves more significant uncertainty and requires more time for bluework. As the project becomes more defined, longer periods of redwork will increase production (p. 169). They continued following a monolithic plan to take the Atlantic route when they should have completed one section at a time—to the first decision point at the top of the Bahamas and then to the second decision point at Rum Cay. Be vulnerable – to “create a culture where being vulnerable and exposed feels perfectly safe” (p. 234).Toward the end of the 2017 Academy Awards, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway walked on stage to announce the Best Picture winner. When Beatty opened the envelope, he found a card that said, “Emma Stone, La La Land” – and, in smaller print at the bottom, “Actress in a Leading Role.” It wasn’t the card for Best Picture at all.