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Leadership inspiration video: In this 2.5 minute short, capture the key to leading in the tough times of change or when teams are pressured to do more with less.

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Leadership Inspiration Video: Leaders, Are You a Buoy?

Leadership Inspiration Video: Are You a Buoy?

Be a Buoy; Model Buoyancy.

• Be a Buoy Not the Buoy. Many leaders don’t want the organization tied to them. The organization should flourish without breeding dependency on them. To this end, they withhold inspiration thinking teams will discover their own. Inspiration doesn’t breed dependency. A leader’s inspiration is a buoy that teaches others how to be a buoy. It models buoyancy to sustain all in tough times.
• Show respect to respect. Basic human respect is a buoyant force. Without it, teams sink. Great leaders show respect to respect and to everyone. It doesn’t coddle teams. It keeps them buoyant in rough currents. It includes honesty vs. bluntness and respect for diversity.
• Maximize Positive Emotion. Kudos, appreciation, and can-do mindset teach everyone how to be buoys. Pessimists believe that this is sugar coating. They think it denies the truth and can lead to business failure. Not true. Positivity doesn’t rewrite the truth. It spotlights the positive truth to handle the negative truth. Be a buoy to sustain all in tough times.
• Build Daily Practice into Buoyant Culture. Whatever behaviors people repeat become their culture. Learning vs. blaming creates a learning buoyant culture. Engaging vs. telling creates an empowered buoyant culture. Responsibility vs. entitlement creates a buoyant culture of shared leadership. Daily doses of inspiration vs. a just get-to-work approach creates a buoyant can do culture.
• Celebrate Flexibility. One of the most maddening aspects of tough times is having to abandon one project or product to develop another. Committed team members feel a loss. Demoralized, they lose energy and productivity. Leaders can minimize and even prevent this effect. Model flexibility. It keeps productivity afloat in times of change. Stay buoyant!
• Play Along the Way. Driver personality types find challenge fun and highly motivating. This isn’t true of every personality type on the team. Challenge to them feels like struggle. They achieve through other types of fun. Great leaders stimulate buoyancy through diverse play along the way.

Leaders, do you foresee rough currents ahead? Are you and your teams pressured to do more with less. Play this short leadership inspiration video for your teams each day. Discuss what you can all do to be buoys for each other. “Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything. ~Goethe

Contact me for more ideas, for Be a Buoy workshops, or for the one hour Be a Buoy keynote at your next big event.

From my professional experience to your success,
Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™

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Kate Nasser, The People-Skills Coach™, delivers coaching, consulting, training, and keynotes on leading change, employee engagement, teamwork, and delivering the ultimate customer service. She turns interaction obstacles into interpersonal success. See this site for workshop outlines, keynote footage, and customer results.

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