What type of leader are you when faced with a crisis? Are you an optimist, or pessimist, or do you personalize the crisis? How you show up in a time of crisis is a strong predictor of the quality of the leadership that you have.
In this episode of the Inspirational Leadership podcast, I speak with Dr. Daniel Monehin, a leadership keynote speaker and adjunct professor. He uniquely combines real-world global leadership experience and rigorous empirical research. Dr. Daniel has had a 30-year career where he has held various leadership roles in diverse businesses, from start-ups to global businesses across wide-ranging industries.
Listen in to learn why you can never sidestep crisis response as a leader, plus how to develop the skill of pragmatic optimism. You will also learn the importance of taking a pause and asking questions to understand a crisis in your organization instead of being dismissive.
Key Takeaways:
- The power of being compelling in your message as a leader to influence people.
- How to take a pause and make your emotional side conscious to be able to lead with it.
- Learn to ask questions and be informed before you dismiss a crisis as a leader.
- How to harness goodwill from your people during a crisis by learning to externalize your feelings about it in a believable way.
Standout Quotes:
- “In leadership development, if people don’t believe you, they’re not going to take your message.”– Dr. Daniel
- “You cannot delegate crisis response as a leader, actually, crisis is nothing other than a test of leadership.”– Dr. Daniel [28:14]
⇢ Get full show notes and more information here: https://bit.ly/DrDanielMonehin
For 15+ years, Kristen has partnered with executives and emerging leaders in hundreds of organizations worldwide to achieve extraordinary and sustainable results through increased self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and mindfulness.
In addition to being an in-demand speaker and facilitator, she is also an accredited coach, empowering leaders to become more aware of their strengths, blind spots, values and purpose so they can build lives and organizations of success, health and sustainability.
An expert in Leadership Development, she hosts a bi-weekly podcast called Inspirational Leadership where she interviews progressive CEOs, strategic HR leaders and forward-thinking experts who share her mission to humanize work and transform leaders.
