917: LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES: Great Leaders Model Being Messy

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

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

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This might sound counterintuitive, but great leaders aren’t afraid to be a little messy. Being messy is not a hall pass to be careless or cause harm. Being messy is about being your most authentic, imperfect, high-integrity self who isn’t afraid to make mistakes and be fumbly in front of others. This is an invitation for women leaders to embrace and model imperfection as a transformative professional strategy. Being an imperfect, messy-at-times leader can be a massive demonstration of strength, self-trust, and confidence. Leading with this level of vulnerability challenges long-standing workplace myths about how women should show up at work while deconstructing the unrealistic expectation that we must be superhuman performers. This opens the door to reimagining leadership as a dynamic, authentic, constantly evolving-for-the-better journey of continuous learning and growth. In this episode, I unpack how modeling mistakes creates psychological safety within teams and organizations, reducing a culture of anxiety and fear of failure. By openly acknowledging our own learning processes rather than putting on airs about having it all figured out, women leaders can dismantle harmful stereotypes that suggest competence at work requires flawless execution. I also share how emotional intelligence and genuine self-awareness actually build deeper, more trusting relationships, signaling to team members that professional development can be a non-linear path filled with exciting opportunities for innovation, self-improvement, and personal transformation. If we check our egos, let go of our internalized perfectionism, and embrace the humility that comes with not having to get it 100% right all the time, we will start to see that being imperfect, modeling learning from mistakes in live time, and letting others know that we don’t always get it 100% right is the pathway to building trust, advancing relationships, unlocking creativity, and driving better outcomes. 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 why and how great leaders model being
0:57.5	messy. And when I'm saying messy and when I'm talking about messy in this context, this is not
1:01.8	about being careless or harmful kind of messy. This is more about the kind of messy where
1:07.1	you are modeling that it's okay to be imperfect, that it's okay to make mistakes, that it's
1:11.3	okay to fail, that it's okay to be fumbly and figuring things out in live times in sometimes
1:17.7	ways that might be chaotic. And not because this is because this is what you're always striving
1:23.6	for, but because you want to show that you can be imperfect and figure things out
1:30.9	and be adaptable in front of the people that you lead, because that's actually a strength.
1:36.0	And demonstrating the vulnerability of imperfection is also something that is going to
1:42.5	show that you are a leader with a higher level of emotional
1:46.3	intelligence than a leader who's ego-driven. So when we look at ego-driven, it's very important
1:54.6	to them, that they look a certain way in front of everyone, that they are controlling the
1:58.5	narrative in terms of how they're perceived. If we look at a leader
2:01.8	with high emotional intelligence, they know that they can never control the way that they're
2:06.8	received. They can never control the way that people interpret the things that they say or do.
2:12.8	All they can do is show up as their best self, knowing that they're doing their best,
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