Ross Swan’s Leadership Corner

ROSS SWAN’S LEADERSHIP CORNER

LEADING IN ANY ENVIRONMENT

ROSS SWAN

Being able to lead in any environment is the key to strong leadership. What underpins this, is not to allow yourself to be a reflection of a challenging environment, but a reflection of your inner self. That is, to draw on your inner strengths and belief in your purpose, thus fuelling your belief in your abilities. This creates a positivism within you and therefore enabling you to see your objectives far more clearly.

A challenging environment is when you see the strong leaders stand up and be noticed. The Covid 19 situation is a perfect example. The key is not to allow all the outside noise and negative energy influence you. Sure, you need to take it into account for context to manage day to day operations, but it should not consume you and steal your energy.

Your inner self is not influenced by outside data, it’s a constant. Strong leaders influence the people surrounding them to be a reflection of their thoughts and actions. They want people to be tuning into their energy and not what’s happening around them. From the leader’s strength, comes the focus, and maintaining the teams focus is key.

When things are running smoothly, and customers are buying, most managers can use the momentum and go with the flow. Whilst good leaders still rise above the pack in this scenario, they rise substantially further when things are tough as going with the flow is not the desirable option.

As a leader, your actions, and reactions, create your team’s actions, or lack thereof. How you want them to behave, should be a reflection of your behaviour. To quote the well documented phrase, “walking your talk.” Maintaining focus on the end game is what is needed. For the team to maintain their eye on the end game, the leader needs to do first.

Sure, as a leader you need to acknowledge what challenges are going on, but its critical to mentally move past that and take your team with you.

So, to lead effectively in any environment, it’s not allowing your thoughts to be obscured by the negative environment, it is directing your energy into looking ahead with a clear mind and focus.

About

Ross Swan

CEO Soul Inspired Leadership Pte Ltd

Ross is a perceptive and responsive leadership consultant, coach, and trainer, with broad experience in varied industries worldwide continually helping leaders to reduce their stress in managing people.

Ross is also a dynamic speaker and podcaster with outstanding skills in communication, presentation, training, team-building, and interpersonal relations.

He works internationally with his projects encompassing many diverse cultural backgrounds.

Throughout the years, Ross has developed a growing desire to put an ongoing emphasis in bringing more soul into business and he believes that the most effective leaders stay true to their authenticity by being soul inspired and it starts by being able to lead yourself.

You can catch Ross at:

www.soul-inspired-leadership.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossswan1/

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