May 24, 2022
Do you exercise your power of authority as a leader without feeling the need to give it away? It is important to understand that you’re entitled to have and fulfill your needs without needing approval from others. To show up as an objective leader, you must learn to let go of emotions, set boundaries, and delegate some tasks to take care of your needs.
In this episode of the Legendary Leaders Podcast, we have Anne and Heather, a mother-daughter team, they are organizational and leadership development experts at Caliber Leadership Systems, a boutique consulting firm, specializing in dismantling dysfunction in organizations. They are dedicated to empowering individuals, leaders, and organizations to achieve their potential by leveraging their expertise in the neurobiology of human development, combined with system thinking approach.
Listen in to learn how to develop and establish yourself as a definitive leader, to be able to develop your employees. You will also learn the importance of creating time and space to lead and engage with your employees as a leader.
This podcast is sponsored by InnerProfessional online training programs. With courses geared specifically for Legendary Leaders, InnerProfessional provides an extraordinary catalogue of leadership and professional development programs unlike any online training you’ve experienced before.
Key Takeaways:
- How to self-manage as a leader, by understanding your needs and how they drive your behaviours.
- Stop giving your power away by believing you aren’t entitled to your earned entitlements.
- How to lead things forward, by keeping your employees out of the emotion and into the objective.
- Learn to create time and space to engage and lead your people to have high turnover.
Episode timeline:
- [1:13] Intro
- [5:09] Get to know Anne and Heather and how they teach leaders to lead from a skill-based perspective.
- [6:35] How self-awareness and willingness to do the difficult things build legendary leaders.
- [9:30] They share their mother-daughter unique experience and how it has helped them establish a working relationship.
- [20:11] How they reconnected and learned to allow each other to lead in individual power.
- [27:07] How they develop leaders by helping them understand their needs and how they affect their behaviors.
- [34:35] How to detach from the need for approval to recognize and fulfill your individual needs.
- [40:16] Strengthen your development muscle, by believing you’re entitled to your earned entitlements.
- [45:05] How they’ve developed their employees to stay out of the emotion and into the objective.
- [52:53] The importance of delegating tasks and setting boundaries to take care of your needs as a leader.
- [1:02:00] How to take leadership seriously as you would any other profession while still engaging with your people.
- [1:10:48] How to be genuinely curious and let go of judgment when dealing with employee unproductivity.
- [1:18:47] Heather explains how developmental work has helped her become a better communicator.
- [1:25:24] You Think You Can Lead book – the leadership skills you need to develop as a leader.
Quotes:
- “Legendary leaders don’t give their power away; they’re comfortable in exercising their power and authority.”- Heather [25:09]
- “We have entitlement because of the work that we put in, and when we don’t own it, we give our power away.”- Anne [41:23]
- “Leadership is a profession, but you don’t have to have any education to be a leader.”- Anne [1:03:58]
- “We have to build up our own ability to establish, exercise, and maintain our authority as leaders because that’s what makes the difference to whether we’re effective or not.”- Heather [1:29:53]
Connect:
Find | Dr. Anne Dranitsaris and Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard
Business Website: https://dranitsaris-hilliard.com/ | www.dismantlingdysfunction.com
On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DranitsarisHilliard
Weekly Newsletter: https://bit.ly/dismantlingdysfunction
Anne and Heather, a mother-daughter team, are organizational and leadership development experts at Caliber Leadership Systems, a boutique consulting firm specializing in dismantling dysfunction in organizations. They are dedicated to empowering individuals, leaders, and organizations to achieve their potential by leveraging their expertise in the neurobiology of human development combined with system thinking approach. They wear many hats – Consultants, Executive Coaches, Trainers, Speakers and Authors – adapting their expertise and solutions to meet the needs of their clients. They bring a unique depth and breadth of knowledge and experience that gives clients the benefit of all of our disciplines to help them achieve their goals.
As experts in human development and behavioral change, leadership and organizational transformation, interpersonal dynamics and the achievement of potential, Anne and Heather have worked with thousands of leaders and individuals from around the world, been featured in dozens of publications, spoken at professional conferences, and written several series of books on personality type and the brain based on the Striving Styles® and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®.
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Find | Cathleen Merkel
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About Cathleen Merkel:
As a Thought Leader in the Mindset & (Self-) Leadership space, Cathleen supports high achieving, but worn-out women create a more content & balanced life without sacrificing their hard-earned success. Following a simple 6 step framework, she helps you not only reconnect with your inner feminine side; Cathleen also supports you to rediscover your REAL YOU!
Cathleen focuses on women who lost their sense of purpose, who feel
they are running in a hamster wheel, trying to please everyone but
themselves. She helps you to turn your careers, your social
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end of the process, Cathleen's clients will feel healthier,
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future.
With over 15 years of leadership experience in Retail, Media & Broadcasting, Engineering and Property Investment, Cathleen has not only experienced the challenges and opportunities of a female leader herself; she has also been leading and supporting various leadership development initiatives within large, complex, multinational matrix organisations.
Only by deeply experiencing her very personal life challenges – ‘hitting a wall experiences’ –Cathleen was able to redefine her own purpose, deciding to bring ease and content to as many women as possible on the planet!
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