How to claim your leadership power | Michael Timms

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🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

When faced with challenges, do you often seek someone else to blame? Leadership expert Michael Timms shows why this instinct is counterproductive, highlighting three effective habits of self-accountability that will empower you and others to make positive change — whether at home or at work. After the talk, Modupe shares crucial questions to ask yourself on balancing self acceptance and honesty.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:05.0	collective. Let me start by saying,
0:08.0	I really love my job as a professor.
0:12.0	But as many educators know, there's a special kind of hell called a faculty meeting.
0:18.0	I've been known to have a difficult time
0:25.0	up,
0:30.0	up, or two or three of all these meetings.
0:25.0	Someone always goes off on a tangent,
0:28.0	and before we know it, time's up,
0:30.0	which means we have to schedule a whole other meeting
0:32.0	to discuss what we were supposed to in the first
0:34.7	place. This means too many meetings. But while I'm busy pointing the finger at my beloved
0:41.7	colleagues, I forget that I too play a role in this hot mess.
0:47.0	And it wasn't until I realized I was part of the problem that I could start thinking of myself as part of the solution.
0:55.0	I'm MaduBak and Ola.
1:00.0	This is a TED
1:03.0	audio collective.
1:05.0	Our speaker today is Leadership Expert and author Michael Tims.
1:09.0	He's here to tell us that playing the blame game
1:12.0	is in no way to claim your power as a leader.
1:16.3	In this talk, he gives us concrete advice on how to create more accountability in the workplace,
1:22.8	starting with yourself.
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