Leadership | Strength exercises for leaders

Every week, The Press presents advice, anecdotes and reflections for leaders, entrepreneurs and managers

THE BOARD

Spontaneous strength exercises

Take advantage of your daily interactions and unexpected situations to strengthen your leadership muscles, suggests leadership consultant Jacqueline M. Baker, diverse American businesswoman. First exercise: if you are invited to a wedding, are you the type to go back and forth on your potential participation? If so, practice responding quickly, she says. Your ability to be decisive is the key to leadership and will make life easier for organizers.

At the grocery store, did you return the cart to the designated place? Or on the pretext that you had your day in the body, you abandoned it on the spot after taking your purchases? Jacqueline M. Baker points out that the words “ethics” and “integrity” do not only count during a financial audit. Your ability to operate ethically shows up in your daily life, even when no one is watching, she insists. Next time, take an extra minute to get the cart back where it’s going and beef up your leadership, she suggests in an article in the business magazine Fast Company about his new book The Unexpected Leader: Discovering The Leader Within You (2022).

Source : Fast Company

WORD

Generative

The public sector must adopt “generative leadership” to face current challenges, reveals an extensive international study by the management strategy firm BCG, which has an office in Montreal. “Instead of being focused on the charisma of the leader, generative leadership is focused on the team. The leader is only one member of this team,” explains Youssef Aroub, one of the authors of the report, in an interview. The leader must have a clear vision, inspire optimism and ensure the development of employees, he says. This human-centered leadership concept proposes three-way management with head, heart and hands: reinventing a workplace that serves everyone, enriching the human experience and getting hands-on with your teams. The report shows a direct correlation between employee motivation and the practice of generative leadership: 61% of employees whose leaders regularly recognize successes are highly motivated by their work.

THE STUDY

Why we choose you

When choosing an employer, 34% of Canadian workers consider benefits and health and wellness services first, while 28% prioritize flexibility, 18% type of work and 14% reputation. positive workplace culture of the employer. Although many organizations invest in improving diversity and inclusion within their teams, only 2% consider it to be the most important factor and only 2% choose an employer for their practices in terms of social conscience. These results are part of the monthly survey by LifeWorks, which has published the Mental Health Index report once a month since April 2020.^CM. In this regard, Quebec’s mental health score fell from 66 out of 100 in September to 66.7 in October. By July, it had climbed to 68.4 out of 100.

THE TREND

The workplace of 2023

According to the magazine Forbes, four trends will take hold during the year. First, remote and hybrid work will become the norm for knowledge workers. Second, companies will continue to invest in technology designed to track employee activity, but will need to focus on measuring output quality rather than quantity without infringing on privacy or individual freedoms. Third, the four-day week is back with a bang with trials taking place in Britain, Belgium, Sweden, Iceland and this year in the US, Canada and New Zealand. Finally, the metaverse will be used to make collaborative work environments immersive, whether with Horizon Workrooms, Omniverse or the new features of Microsoft Teams.

Source : Forbes

THE MISTAKE

The fake CV

Tampering with your CV to get a job is not new. After the fake Harvard diplomas, here are some claiming to be indigenous or black in order to take advantage of the advantages related to diversity in organizations, reports the legal information platform Lexologie. There are famous cases like that of Rachel Dolezal, a white American who posed as a black woman. Here in Canada, it is the Indigenous origins of former judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, an eminent professor, that is currently in dispute. “If employees lie about their background and skills and those lies help them get a job, that is grounds for dismissal whenever that lie is discovered, even if a considerable amount of time has passed and they did an excellent job,” Toronto labor law firm Levitt Sheikh recalls in Lexology. “In positions of authority, any dishonesty can be grounds for dismissal, as integrity is fundamental to the position itself and the reputation of the employer. »

Source: Lexology