"5 Pillars of Effective Leadership" | Ari Zucker | TEDxGVSU

the history of the world is told through the lens of leaders we applaud the great ones and we admonish and scorn the poor ones at the center of every story is a leader so I want to talk a little bit about where this comes from for me so I work in sales and that means that I talk to leaders of businesses every day and I ask them questions like how can you identify and spur cultural change in an organization and when you look at your roadmap moving forward what's gonna stop your team from achieving their goals and actual izing all the success that's there for you now asking them these questions and hearing their answers has given me a perspective on what business leaders care about and how that information influences the ways in which they choose to lead so today I'll be discussing how the combination of transparency accountability love empathy and curiosity combined to create world-class and effective leaders now as I move through this I want to ask you all to reflect on the leaders in your life whether that's a boss a parent or an elected official how do they grade against this criteria how can you push the leaders in your life to be better and to create more change within your life so to begin let's talk about accountability so accountability is all about understanding your own place as a leader it's understanding that when it matters most you own the decisions and the outcomes so this goes two ways right it goes when things are really good how can you hold people accountable to success how do you assign to people praise and recognition but it's also about when things don't go well right so how do you hold people accountable both yourself and others when things go poorly how do you react and change in real time and how do you begin to have dialogues with folks who don't react to the culture you're trying to set right because you're everyone's trying to drive cultures of change of success and expectations of excellence so how do you as a leader begin to begin to create that change and this goes into curiosity right so effective leaders are always curious they rethink the problems that they face every day they avoid either-or fallacies and strong man and strong man arguments and try and find real solutions to problems they ask the right questions to the right people at the right time to continue to have an open mind and redefine how they view the world these leaders will constantly be seeking to change the norm they improve and create a standard and a foundation for change and excellence wherever they go and this leads in to transparency which is all about keeping people in the loop right so a leader will understand the stakeholders in any organization so whether that's an elected official how does legislation you're trying to push how does that impact people whether you're a business leader understanding how your customers or your employees are going to be affected by the things and the choices that you make they avoid anger and apathy by having real conversations with people who are gonna understand what's going on and this leads us into love leaders who love what they do they identify with their purpose with their people and with the team themselves they understand that what they're trying to do is so important it's not just about earning money it's not just about doing something for the sake of doing it what they're doing it matters and there's a reason why they do this every single day and there's a reason why people are attracted to them their magnetic their charismatic they identify with their team because they understand that as a team you are better success together is better than success alone and working together creates strong bonds together and they identify with the individuals on their team because they understand that their purpose is bigger than themselves they're a group they're a team and these people on this team care about this just as much as they do it creates a strong sense of oneness of togetherness and strong bonds and camaraderie and leaders who do this also have a very strong sense of empathy they understand how to have real discussions with people about the things that they care about the most they understand how to have discussions with people so they feel heard so they understand what's going on they've listened to people they understand a problem they're facing and they find real solutions to problems so to wrap this up effective leaders are empathetic curious transparent accountable and have a love for the things in their life now at the beginning of this I asked all of you to reflect on the leaders in your life after hearing this how do they grade if you have leaders in your life who are very successful how do you begin to push them and challenge them to be better when the leaders in your life fail you how do you have a dialogue with them to begin to push and challenge them to do more than they're doing to enact change and to serve your organization's but more than that how do you grade what do you do how do the leaders in your life grade you and how do the people you lead think about you what can you do yesterday and what can you do today excuse me that's better than you were yesterday and what can you do tomorrow to make you a better leader than you were today because at its core in 50 years who's talking about you what are they saying because for you to accomplish anything with anyone someone has to do it at the head and lead thank you you [Applause]

Channel: TEDx Talks

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Keywords: TEDxTalks, English, Humanities, Empathy, Leadership, Passion

Id: p-JG2WSfIQI

Length: 6min 24sec (384 seconds)

Published: Thu May 31 2018