My leadership Journey - lessons learned
Angie Vaux
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Angie Vaux
Empowering Women | Elevating Careers | Transforming Workplaces Award-winning Founder | Women in Tech forum | Women Leaders forum | Angel Investor
As I enter my 11th year as a leader of global businesses, I take a moment to reflect on my leadership journey and some of the (many) lessons I've learned along the way:
- True leaders have followers - success is based on your ability to inspire, motivate, align and support others to be the best they can be. Take people on a journey and provide them with the tools, training and the empowerment to be successful.
- Be authentic - the more you can sincerely connect with people and be open about your personal strategies to succeed and some of the challenges you've faced along the way, the more you build a loyal and engaged workforce.
- Learn from failure - we aren't perfect. Life isn't perfect. Our greatest breakthroughs can develop from our failures.
- Seek inputs from your employees at all levels - they have a wealth of insights and knowledge, which can support the growth of your business and provide vital input into areas such as product development and customer service.
- Work on the business as well as in the business - create the space to think, to drive innovation and the future strategy of the business.
- Actively cultivate emotional intelligence - picking up these subtle signals and adapting your leadership style accordingly will help you get the best out of people and build a loyal workforce.
- And of course, core values such as integrity, honesty and loyalty, coupled with great communication skills, decisiveness and competency go a long way.
What are some of your leadership lessons? I would love to hear them.
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Data & AI Partnership Development | Alliances & Channel | Business Development | Ecosystem Enablement |Sales Conversion | Driving Scale in APAC | Cloud Expert in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS
6 年Great blog Angie, totally agree learning from my failures has led to ultimately delivering on what I thought was not possible! Lastly, dont forget to send the lift down for the next future leader..
Director, Strategic Alliances APJ at Workday & APJ D&I Lead
6 年Play to strengths! We all have them, a good leader should be able to identify them within their team - people are energised by their strengths and perform at a higher level, plus they get more satisfaction!
Industry Solutions Director & Victorian Branch Leader
6 年Buffering- not an official leadership trait but in global orgs there is so much that gets in the way of being able to just “get on with the job”. Thanks for being a great buffer Angie Vaux to allow me to be successful.
Senior Director of Product Marketing
6 年Thanks for sharing Angie! :)? As someone who has worked under different leaders, I think Integrity is critical. It's a word that gets thrown around alot, but the moment people detect that it's gone, everything else begins to erode.?