We took a quick review of episodes 1 – 6 of our Connecting with Purpose podcast and thought you might appreciate some of these leadership insights. We’ll share our PurposeFused Leadership Model next week but in the meantime, here’s “what they said”. Watch the 5 minute video and browse below for the core themes:

Kevin Roberts, Former Chair and Worldwide CEO, Saatchi and Saatchi:

“Leaders have got to be demanding in our standards but caring in our delivery”

• Need these two traits coming out of the pandemic

• People are beat up

• Be demanding in our standards but caring in our delivery

Wing Commander, Matt Roberts:

“Reiterating that purpose to people through communication is absolutely vital”

• Integrating purpose is about people.

• So, communicating the sense of purpose frequently and reiterating it in a timely fashion is critical for it to be understood and embraced

Dave Madden, Co-Founder Makosi:

“Most people have the answers, so [Leadership] is about asking the right questions ”

• Doing the work on yourself to optimize your own mindset

• Most people have the answers

• Just comes down to asking the right questions

Kevin Roberts, Former Chair and Worldwide CEO, Saatchi and Saatchi:

“Great leaders know how to attract top talent – they know where to find it, steal it and coach it to make that top talent feel like a family and play like a team”

• Great leaders create great teams

• Great leaders and great teams deserve each other

• Make sure once you’ve gotten the top talent engaged, you play people in position

Wing Commander, Matt Roberts:

     “Strength of character isn’t about how big your character is, it’s actually about your emotional intelligence”

• Not just being strong and forging ahead

• More often about having appropriate EQ and demonstrating a sense of humanity

• Say: “I got it wrong, but I’ve learnt from it and we’ll move forward”

• Much more effective for building trust

Yours truly, Co-Founder, PurposeFused 🙂

“Two primary lessons to coach as a leader…1) you don’t know their story; and 2) you’ve got to live it to give it.”

• You don’t know their story so your obligation is to ask the right questions and listen, to truly understand

• Live it to Give it. Model what you coach, SG, 14.45

• Go through the process, do the work, demonstrate passion and care

• Model behaviors yourself you want to see in others

Steve Tew, Former CEO, New Zealand RFU and All Blacks:

“The most important thing is that you walk the talk yourself”,

• A leading organization can have influence beyond itself

• Walk the Talk yourself and to do that leading by example is the key.

Check back with us next week for our PurposeFused Leadership model and in the meantime, if you have any questions around the intersection between purpose, leadership, performance and impact – please get in touch!