Truist-Perspectives-AUGUST_2021
Truist Perspectives magazine makes the complex clear by offering tools and tips for investing, financial planning, and more.
Truist Perspectives magazine makes the complex clear by offering tools and tips for investing, financial planning, and more.
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Insights: Leadership<br />
One thing I’ve noticed when I talk to people<br />
who have defined their leadership<br />
purpose: Though the words are always<br />
different, when you boil them down, they<br />
almost always relate to impacting other<br />
people in a positive way.<br />
How to use your leadership purpose<br />
once you’ve defined it<br />
Why is clarifying our leadership purpose<br />
helpful? From a neurological perspective,<br />
acting with purpose douses our brain<br />
with a flood of positive emotions. And<br />
that flood heightens the ability of our<br />
brain’s attentional system to look for<br />
positive things around us and opportunities<br />
that we might not have seen<br />
otherwise.<br />
Leadership listen<br />
Leadership purpose helps us see the<br />
bigger picture. It can help us prioritize—<br />
to determine what we spend energy<br />
on, what we don’t spend energy on,<br />
what we’ll tolerate, and what we will not<br />
tolerate.<br />
Here’s a surprising tactic to reinforce<br />
your purpose: Let other people know<br />
what your leadership purpose is so they<br />
can help hold you accountable. They<br />
can remind you when your actions are<br />
off-purpose and help you identify ways<br />
to be more on-purpose.<br />
When you use purpose effectively and<br />
consistently, it helps you show up more<br />
consistently for others. They start to<br />
know what to expect from you, and your<br />
relationships with them strengthen.<br />
<strong>Truist</strong> Leadership Institute creates a podcast for leaders called “Leadership<br />
Amplitude.” Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or wherever you get<br />
your podcasts, the program covers a range of timely, thought-provoking, and<br />
useful insights for leaders. Episodes 9 through 12 take a deeper dive into the<br />
topic of leadership purpose with TLI experts. Listen and subscribe today!<br />
75%<br />
of employees<br />
who consider<br />
themselves to be<br />
thriving at work<br />
say their company<br />
has a strong sense<br />
of purpose that<br />
resonates with<br />
their personal<br />
values.*<br />
*2018 Global Talent Trends<br />
study by Mercer<br />
Recommended reads on leadership and leadership purpose<br />
The Mind of the Leader: How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization<br />
for Extraordinary Results, by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter, Harvard<br />
Business Review Press, 2018<br />
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action,<br />
by Simon Sinek, Portfolio, 2009<br />
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol S. Dweck, Random House, 2006<br />
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