You can find your own path and feel confident about acting on your ideas to create a better future for the world with meaning, intelligence and sensitivity.
The ability to understand and collaborate with others has become an indispensable qualification for the development of relationships between individuals, cultures and ideas.
Leveraging simplicity to manage complexity
Leadership must be built step by step, through the gestures and conversations. The demands and challenges of the 21st century are neither static nor linear. Globalism and the speed at which information is exchanged, both of which give rise to complexity, are central to these challenges.
We need to find ways to leverage simplicity to manage increasingly complex and unpredictable situations. We need to develop an approach that uses sense to underpin sustainable success.
A leader builds the confidence necessary to make sound decisions that are the result of consultations, exchange, and debates. When employed with courage, empathy, humility and resilience, the leader stimulates creative initiatives and generates sense that drives action and results. These leaders are not just the CEOs or executives; they are everywhere in the organization.
It is the leader's responsibility to use the right techniques to engage each person in a way that speaks to her, to respect her as an individual, to place trust and confidence in her ability to work effectively with the right guidance.
A leader creates himself or herself step by step, over time, through gestures and acts of self-construction in relation to others. By exploring what divides or creates distance between individuals, we come to know ourselves and become more agile.
The wider the division, the greater the effort needed to understand the other, and the more agility and self-knowledge is gained in the task of understanding. Interpersonal connections and common ground emerge along the way. These efforts enable us to build the confidence needed to exercise leadership as a process of influence with composure.
This capacity is a major step toward exercising responsible, people-centered leadership that is driven by a common purpose and the desire to build sense for them and for the organization.
Source: Valérie Gauthier: Leading with Sense: The Intuitive Power of Savoir-Relier