Communication
- Keep communications simple. Focus on relevant information when you’re talking to employees and colleagues to avoid overcomplicating your message.
- Reiterate important messages using different modalities, such as following up on a conversation via email.
- Leverage the diversity of thought. Encourage open discussions, asking difficult questions and gaining a variety of viewpoints. Invite authentic listening and reflect on tough decisions.
- OManage the “HiPPO” (an acronym for the “highest-paid person’s opinion” or the “highest-paid person in the office”). Be armed with data, use facts and build consensus among others.
Focus
Agility
- Accept that change is a new constant.
- Make plans and anticipate risks, yet be prepared to change and to adapt. It’s important to avoid spending too much time on long-term strategic plans, as you’ll need to be able to pivot as the organization changes.
- Influence and learn at the same time by making others feel safe to communicate freely, challenging them to think, soliciting feedback, asking questions and seeking guidance.
- Practice a growth mindset by viewing situations from multiple angles to generate fresh, strategic insights.
Culture
- Reevaluate what you value. Your values are your internal GPS and guide your decisions and behaviors, thus impacting the culture around you. Getting clear on what you value and leading from that space reduces complexity, struggle and stress at work.
- Watch out who you reward, promote and let go. These are the company’s values in action.
- Promote wellbeing, compassion and gratitude. Organizations nurturing support create a culture of collaborations and productivity.
- Celebrate failure to learn from mistakes. Confronting your own and others’ imperfections is a crucial element to create an environment in which anything can be discussed. This, in turn, leads to recognizing and analyzing failures early to optimize improvement and avoid costly mistakes in the future.
Kasia is a Conscious Leadership Coach, Personal and Organizational Transformation Advocate, Trainer, Facilitator and NSC Certified Consultant. A Provocateur, Adventurist, Global Citizen, Traveler, and Himalayan Climber. She believes in irresistible power of choice, collaboration, self- awareness and living life congruent with our highest values. Through her coaching practice, she works with individuals, teams, and organizations assisting them to awaken their personal and leadership potential. In just the last eighteen (18) months, she has been privileged to work with over 1000 individuals providing 1:1coaching, facilitating experiential personal and group transformation experiences so they can live, love, lead with clarity, on purpose, and with passion.