0:00:00.9 S1: Do you create an environment where it is cool to be a learner or do you shut down learning and discovery
0:00:10.5 S2: While the back friends, this is your place, or cutting edge tools, exercises, best practices and modern leadership strategies, because on the world is changing, it's time to bring our leadership styles along for the right, whether you're a company leader, a corporate visionary and entrepreneur, This show gives you new insights into the neuroscience and a language of leadership, plus practical steps and tips to lead your teams in a parole also help you keep your people happy can engage all while achieving your biggest goals, I'm your host, gen torn and the talent strategist, a brain-based executive coach, speaker and the founder of three of our coaching. Now, let's fix leadership.
0:00:54.4 S1: Do you have an idea or a topic we should discuss here together on let's fix leadership, send your ideas and your questions directly to me at... Hello at let's fix leadership dot com. Today's world is moving quickly and it can feel like an Olympic sport to stay up on everything that's new and coming out... Oh gosh, there's new software, updated software, new trends, new customer shopping patterns, legal requirements, new knowledge, new ways of doing things, the newest industry thought leaders, the is... It just keeps going on and on. As a leader, do you make it cool to be a learner, to ensure your team is staying up on all of these new trends, adding additional skills to their tool kit or searching out the best of the best of the best of all the new things. Leaders that are fostering a learning environment, not only empower their employees, but also drive innovation and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement, that is a lot of SES in one sentence, and I have a feeling that's the environment and culture you want to create for your team. So how do you make learning coal and lead a team full of continuous learners? Well, let's start by being a learner, we have to be learners ourselves, individuals take cues from their bosses, have you ever worked with a leader that thought they knew everything? I have a feeling while you worked for that person, you are less likely to share what you are learning and or you may have shied away from learning because it felt...
0:02:35.8 S1: You felt bad, you felt like if you had something to learn, you are less then because your boss seemed to always know all the answers as a leader, talk about what you are learning, share that you are actually learning. Talk about your failures, what you learn from them, share articles and podcasts that you enjoy and tell your team what you learn from the content, not only will showing your team learning as part of leading, you will create an environment where people are more open to ask for help, they were more likely to share their wins and failures, and they're more likely to help each other out.
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0:03:39.6 S1: Start your team meetings with a learning topic, it's a great thing to rotate around by each person, every week a new person on the team can share something they recently learned and why it made an impact on him. This compounds the learning. Again, it makes learning cool because it's celebrated, but it also allows everyone to know they have something to learn from each person on that team, want to compound that effort even more, know that teams that are learners, teams that are learning teams that can see that they can learn from others, they're more likely to be helpful and supportive of each other, and a team that learns together as a team that grows together. Celebrate risk and failures. Yes, we often learn from traditional methods, but we also learn from experiences, and if you're not creating an environment where people can take risk and try new things, then your team... They're just not learning. No one ever gained a new skill by doing nothing new, you have to try do things, you have to take risk, you have to experience failures, all of these activities is creative mindset, all of this creates learning and this excitement for a job, encourage your team to network with cross-functional leaders, and this can be tough for people, because too often leaders are protective over their own team and they don't encourage them to get out there and work with other leaders, do not be that person, because there's so much value from learning what leaders and other departments are doing how they're doing it, what's new in their world, learning from different leaders allow us to expand our knowledge and our views, and here's one that can be even harder at times, provide space for learning.
0:05:36.8 S1: Let's face it, learning takes time, and if you're not providing the space in the course of a work day for learning new things, it's really hard for your team to grow, keep an eye on your team's calendars when the meetings start to stack up, do a meeting clean out, and this is just a good practice every quarter, do a meeting, clean out, I don't know why the amount of reoccurring emails grow over time, but they just do keep your team focused and not over-booked, not only creates a space where they can learn... It also helps prevent mental burn out, so we just went through the importance of making learning cool for your team, ideas on how to do that, but please, please, please never forget your enthusiasm for learning and sharing what you learned is the way to make learning the coolest. Now go out there, learn something new and help us all fix leadership.
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