How A Leader Can Be Generous

A Leader Can Be Generous:

Through raises.

Through promotions.

Through bonuses.

Through training & development.

Through recognition, acknowledgement, gratitude & appreciation.

Through being mindful of your attention.

Through sharing your gifts.

 Through being liberal with your time. ...

Through showing people you consider them important.

Through standing up for your people.

Through being lavish with praise and acknowledgments.

Through delegating.

Through providing opportunity.

Through time off, paid leaves & vacations.

Through personal & corporate philanthropy.

Through giving your wisdom.

Through giving your time.

Through delegating & providing more opportunities.

Through realizing that giving - to others, to the world, to oneself - is deep in our nature as human beings.

Through knowing that when one expresses one’s giving nature, it feels good, benefits others, prompts them to be good to in turn, and adds one more lovely thread to the great tapestry of human generosity.

Through priming the pump of generosity.

Through becoming aware of things to be grateful for or glad about.

Through bringing to mind a sense of already being full, so as not to feel deprived or emptied out if one gives a little more.

Through noticing that giving is natural to do.

Through realizing that generosity comes in many forms, including heart, time, self-control, service, food, and money.

Through opening to feeling good about being a giver.

Through giving others the gift of full attention.

Through staying present with others minute after minute, staying with their topic or agenda.

Through being helpful.

Through developing a daily generosity practice.

Through slowing down to open the door for employees so employees can enter the room before them.

Through their desire to put others before themselves.

Through staying late in the office to help employees with projects approaching their deadlines.

Through doing the right thing in any situation regardless of the cost to them or their agenda.

Through having an openhandedness with their knowledge and resources

Through being others-focused, not self-focused

Through being less hurried and more present in daily interactions.

Through desiring a greater good for each of their employees.

Through seeing the preferred future versus what is right in front of them

Through making intentional eye contact

Through never expecting anything in return

Through avoiding being judgmental or critical in nature

Through creating a culture of hospitality by having a warm and inviting spirit around the staff and the workplace.

Through hiring a leadership coach and philanthropy advisor to guide, advise and inspire leadership and generosity.

P.S. Anything else that YOU would add?

The author, Dr. John B. Charnay, CEO of Charnay and Associates in Greater Los Angeles, is a leading leadership coach. He has groomed some of the top leaders in key industries. He has extensive experience teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels at leading universities throughout the greater Los Angeles area, including USC, UCLA, CSUN, FIDM, Woodbury and Pepperdine. Additionally, he is a top fundraising advisor and an award-winning public relations professional who has been a strategic PR and philanthropy advisor to many famous celebrities and Fortune 1000 CEOs. To meet him and ask for his support, invite him to be LinkedIn (email in profile) and contact him today!