In this special conversation, Michael Quigley from Kataholos is celebrating the launch of his new book, Loving Leadership.
Join the conversation to be inspired and learn more about what Loving Leadership looks like for you.
Come along for an hour of love, laughter, leadership, and some inspirational food for your journey of business and life. Join the conversation HERE.
Agenda...
- Michael outlines his loving leadership framework, for how to use the greatest resource in the world to fuel your business.
- You will hear from readers who love the book and how it has helped them.
- Michael expands on the book with previously untold stories, including why he wrote the book, how it can help you in your life, and what he hopes it can accomplish.
Attendees got a chance to ask Michael any questions about leadership, business, life and writing books. Join us to learn more and connect with others in our Global Tribe. Below is a recent article shared by Michael.
Loving leadership – a frequently untapped resource... by Michael Quigley
There are many types of leadership: servant, situational, transformational, and visionary leadership to name a a few. In my work I always begin with the first principles of leadership by asking these questions:
What drives you as a leader?
Where does your leadership drive come from?
What can you cultivate to empower you as a leader?
Have you ever considered what your greatest resource might be? It’s not your bank balance, shareholder value, assets, intellectual property, or knowledge. It’s not even your health. In this article I will consider how you can harness the love in your heart and make the most of this abundant resource.
What’s love got to do with it?
Currently, the pace of change in the global business landscape is quick and intense. This isn’t just transforming businesses it’s making a major impact at a human level. Over the coming months and years many of your people will experience worry, overwhelm, and exhaustion and they’ll need you to help them see a way forward. This is a challenge worthy of business leaders of all capabilities, and it is the love in your heart that will help you meet this challenge.
Only love has the depth to meet today’s challenges
While training people around the world, everyone I meet tells me that family is more important than anything else. Why? Because family is where love grows and makes its home. Conversely, many also tell me they see an unwelcome trend outside the family. They see relationships that are shallow, transactional, and conditional. They witness declining moral and ethical standards, ghosting, poor leadership, and a general breakdown in community relationships. These are symptoms of a world calling all of us to be brave and to extend our love beyond our families and into the wider world.
Love in action – meeting the challenges
You can apply a loving leadership approach to address two of the biggest challenges facing businesses today.
Recruitment and retention
Why should the best talent decide to work in your business? Money alone isn’t the answer, this is a transactional approach that will not win you the hearts and minds of the top talent. Instead, focus on allowing them to feel affirmation and love. When a new person joins your business imagine you are thinking three generations ahead. Talk to them like you are planning their success over the next 100 years, you will use different language and create a different energy. You will foster trust and a feeling of curiosity and wonder in your people about the scale of your ambition for them. Loving leadership can help people to feel a depth of vision that means they won’t want to work anywhere else.
Fear of artificial intelligence
Not everyone understands artificial intelligence (AI) and can become defensive or aggressive in their thinking. It is easy in this situation to feel helpless, intellectually irrelevant, and disconnected, so be kind and recognise their fears. We all like to belong and feel welcome so it is important that people in this situation feel safe and that someone cares. Let them know that good things happen here and here is where they belong; do this and your people will thrive in an AI world.
Tapping into this abundance
Love has immense value and unlike other resources there is an infinite supply. If you want to be more patient, kind, and empathetic, focused and at peace, concentrate on cultivating love for yourself and people everywhere. Love is a resilient and endless resource, embrace it and use it in your leadership.
You can read the original publication HERE.
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Originally published at https://www.globalchamber.org/blog/2023/08/28/global-chamber/loving-leadership-by-michael-quigley/
