Love truly is the answer

Love.

I love this definition of “love’ from the Collins Dictionary: ‘You say that you love someone when their happiness is very important to you, so that you behave in a kind and caring way towards them’.

If we are truly committed to wellbeing, then our tribe needs to feel that their “happiness” is very important to us, and we must authentically and appropriately show them that that is true, especially if one of our organisational values is integrity. More than just “happiness” influenced by an external environment, we should be looking at ways to impart an inner “joy” that comes from knowing that our people are truly cared for and loved, appreciated, and valued. In my experience, better outcomes and objectives are achieved through “loving” rather than “leaning”. “Leaning” is driven and underpinned by metricated motivation and punitive performance management, often outworked and demonstrated through excessive control and micromanagement. It is possible to “love a team to higher performance”. This is achieved through trust, encouragement, empowerment and yes…accountability.

In a broken world, we should be building up people, not breaking them down. The best way to coach, mentor, and develop people is to love them. In fact, loving your people - your tribe - will always produce better results and increase and improve the organisation’s Ikigai and promote Kaizen. It’s all about “one-anothering”. We need to “unthink” the ways we lead, manage and follow. I believe that it comes down to ensuring that we sincerely engage with our teams, because their happiness and joy – their well being is very important to us.

?Love me. Love you. Love your work.

?Lots of love,

Justin

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