I am often asked why I am so obsessively focused on building emerging leaders, rather than starting with leaders at the top, with The Nine Essentials of Significant Leadership.
As we head further into the 21st century with a nation so profoundly divided, the need for significant leadership has never been more acute. My experience suggests that the current C-Suite is not interested in changing its focus. You see, guiding and building new significant leaders is the single most important duty of a leader – genuinely seeing and valuing each and every member of the organization for who they are and what they bring to the table.
Significant leadership seeks to create a legacy of strength in diversity, power in compassion, resilience in empathy, and results through accountability. Diversity is essential to a functioning society. Significant leadership enables not only diversity but also equity and inclusion. And that creates a stronger sense of belonging and a more robust buy-in to the organization’s purpose, mission, and vision. And with a nation so fiercely and vocally divided on many subjects and the differing priorities of the now majority millennial workforce, if organizations want not only to survive but also thrive, there must be a shift in focus and priorities. And while my nine essentials of significant leadership may seem very conceptual and theoretical, my experience has proven that they resonate strongly with emerging leaders, which is a very encouraging sign. The bottom-line deliverables of increased productivity, reduced attrition, increased market share, customer satisfaction, and profitability will all take care of themselves if leaders filter all their actions through the lens of The Nine Essentials of Significant Leadership.
Read Lauren’s Whitepaper on The Nine Essentials of Significant Leadership.