912: LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES: 4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership by Doing Less

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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I have had the opportunity to be in the room with some incredible groups of women leaders recently. One of the conversations that has come over and over again is mentorship and modeling. A question I’ve been inviting women leaders to play with is, “What kinds of values do you want to be modeling to other women leaders? Are there any values that you tend to abandon (likely unconsciously) in your leadership that you would like to do a better job of honoring?” A few things commonly come up as women dig into this question: Boundaries Delegation Rest Because women have been conditioned to constantly over-give, overdo, and over-prove ourselves, it’s quite common for us to struggle to: Set boundaries Say “No” Delegate tasks Give ourselves the appropriate downtime to rest and recover on a regular basis We are socialized to constantly self-abandon and self-sacrifice in our roles as employees, leaders, caregivers, wives, neighbors, and community members. What messages are we modeling to other women when we don’t set boundaries, trust others enough to ask them for support and give ourselves permission to rest? And, when we self-abandon in front of other women, how are we undermining women in leadership everywhere? These are tough questions that take a decent amount of self-reflection and critical thinking. This episode is an invitation to start thinking about these questions in a new way that will not only position you to be a better leader but also to take better care of yourself. In this episode, we dig into four ways to improve your leadership by doing less and four small steps you can take to start today. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessleadership.com/sponsor Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.0	Welcome to shameless leadership. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. This show is for women, transgender people, non-binary folks, as well as allies, who are committed to advancing their leadership while also advancing the leadership of those around them. In each episode, we will offer practical tips, leadership strategies, and inspiring stories to help you become a more
0:38.6	confident, compassionate, and inclusive leader. The truth is, you were born to lead. What might
0:44.5	happen for you if you were to wholeheartedly embrace that part of yourself? So let's start now,
0:49.5	together. Hello, shameless leaders. Today we're going to talk about how to improve your leadership by doing
0:55.4	less, which might seem a little counterintuitive. Especially for women, we often feel like in order
1:01.4	to improve our leadership or in order to keep growing and rising, we have to do more. And I want to
1:07.8	flip that on its head a little bit. So I've recently had the opportunity to be in the
1:11.2	room with some incredible groups of women leaders. I've had the opportunity to facilitate
1:16.0	events in different capacities and it's been really interesting to be in the room, facilitate
1:23.1	the conversation over here conversations, over here like people opening up to one another,
1:28.5	getting to the juicy parts, and also being able to hear what are some common themes that are
1:33.4	coming up over and over again for women and women leaders in organizations right now.
1:38.2	One of the conversations that is coming up over and over again is about mentorship and modeling.
1:43.0	And what's cool about this conversation,
1:45.2	what I'm loving is how many women leaders love mentoring other women leaders. There's just this
1:52.3	generosity and like unspoken reciprocity that I will mentor you and pay it forward because I know that then you will mentor another woman.
2:03.1	And it's like this like girl code a little, right?
2:05.3	Like we're like we're in it together.
2:07.1	We have each other's backs.
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