Uplift My Life Today Podcast – Ep. 19 – How vulnerability helps us become better leaders – Nena Martinez
“Is there anyone that does not need to navigate uncertainty and risk on a regular basis? To be alive is to be vulnerable; to be a leader is to be vulnerable every minute of the day. You don’t get to opt out.”
– Dr. Brené Brown
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What does a strong leadership entail? What’s your thought on that?
So many books and leadership theories answer this from many different angles.
I have a fair share of journey discovering what my definition is on this. I reflected it from both the eyes of one being led and one that leads.
For me, beyond managing resources in the wisest way possible to achieve the goals, leadership is essentially about empowerment – helping my team believe that they are powerful as they are, they are more than what they already know about themselves and to help them to trust that.
It’s about helping them to bridge their minds and their hearts through the allocated responsibilities they’ve agreed to take on.
I never believe that work is just about doing tasks and earning money. It’s more than that.
Work takes more than 35% of our breathing time during our productive years. It’s a missed opportunity when we are not using it to grow our heart and soul, in addition to our bank account and our physical wellbeing.
Ultimate strong leadership is always being attest during a time of crisis. It’s like a right of passage. One earns a stripe when s/he passes it.
Don’t get me wrong; there is no manual on how to deal with crisis. Mistakes are bound to happen as we face it. Crisis serves us well to accelerate the process of understanding our business and ourselves better.
I realize that team members need to feel safe and welcome to offer that to the team or the company. My role as the team leader is to create this safe space for them to do so.
Safe place is KEY. It is a place where they feel safe to take risks and expose themselves in an intent to support the greater, knowing that they have no control over the outcome.
It’s a place where they choose trust over doubt, so they can be a part of something so much bigger than they individually are.
For 2 years, Google did a study on 180 teams to understand what makes the most successful team. They concluded that these teams shared 5 traits:
- Dependability
- Structure and clarity
- Meaning
- Impact
- Psychological Safety
Thank you, Google, for validating my experience.
Now that we know all this, where we do we start?
It starts with us first.
What can help us feeling safe in ourselves as a team leader and how to create that safety for the people we work with?
Join my discussion with Nena Martinez in this new podcast episode about how vulnerability helps us become better leaders.
This is the 2nd part of our 2 parts episode about vulnerability and how it helps us in our lives.
Nena is the first Latin America’s Certified “Daring Way” Facilitator and Case Consultant as well as a Public Speaker.
She trained with Dr. Brené Brown to help herself and others understand their shame triggers, the power of being vulnerable, and living a compassionate and courageous life.
How can she not be courageous when she is also a wife and a mother of 8-year-old triplets in addition to taking on a role to help others?
Based in Monterrey, Mexico, Nena facilitates workshops, consultations, and individual sessions where she explores themes like vulnerability, courage, compassion, shame, values, conscious parenting etc.
Both Nena and I feel strongly that sharing reflections in a form of stories is powerful.
Have a great time listening, getting ideas and sharing with others!
Love,
Astuti
p.s. The previous episode is about how vulnerability can help us overcome a sense of inadequacy.
Timestamp:
00:00 Welcome
03:23 How to use our vulnerability in leading others.
11:33 Examples how integrating vulnerability help us to earn more respect from others.
25:45 Symptoms in our behaviour when we operate from a place of love or fear or shame and what we can do about it.
30:10 How vulnerability and burnout strongly correlates.
33:44 What is boundary and having this helps us free ourselves to be authentic.
38:16 Three things you can take away from this episode to help you to become a good manager and leader.
Set up an appointment here when you’re ready to integrate vulnerability into your life. The first 30 minutes coaching is free of charge.
Inputs, questions, feedback or suggestion for topics – write me at astuti@upliftmylife.today. Thanks!
To get in touch with Nena Martinez, connect with her here: Facebook and Instagram and LINKEDIN.
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Copyrights etc.:
Music used in this Episode: “On My Way” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
