January Round-Up: A Leader Values and Engages Others

This is my first month organizing our posts at LeaderTalk around a theme. If you are a regular reader of this blog, I hope that you know this month's theme by now. It is:

A leader values and engages others.

Here is a compilation of posts on this topic by some of my favorite bloggers. I encourage you to spend some time reading through these for more encouragement in how to develop the important leadership skill of valuing and engaging others.

If you love chocolate, you will love this post by Jane Perdue, "Leadership and a Box of Chocolates." She tells the story of a new manager and how she melted the resentment of her employees by making an effort to get to know them. 

Jennifer V. Miller offers ideas for team development to engage employees in her post "No-Cost Ideas for Energizing your Team."

This post from Mary Jo Asmus highlights the need for faith, hope, and charity in leadership. Having faith in your employees includes seeing and valuing them as individuals and having belief in their potential.

Showing respect to others is one way of conferring value on them. Dan McCarthy outlines 7 components of respecting others in his post "How Do You Show R-E-S-P-E-C-T as a Leader?"

Wally Bock may not know the secret of life, but he thinks he knows the secret of great supervision. He shares it here, in his post "One Thing You Can Do to Supervise Better."

 

In this post, Sharlyn Lauby asks the question "Who Owns Talent" and encourages managers to engage employees by inspiring them to develop and discover the talent.

"Four Easy Actions to Engage Your People" features timeless advice from Miki Saxon and a handy acronym for remembering them.

I love this post by Lisa Rosendahl, "Card Carrying Supervisors Take Heed." By considering her list of questions, you may be able to determine areas for growth in valuing others. 

Mike Myatt encourages CEOs to lead the way with engaging employees in his post "Leadership and Employee Engagement."

"It’s time we start recognizing that our biggest asset is the people who work for us and the unique perspectives, insights, and drives they add to the mix," writes Tanveer Naseer, in his post "It's Time to Make Work Personal Again." This post is a great reminder of the importance of engaging people at work.

Tom Glover uses the term "Follower Reflection" to refer to the process of getting to know the people we work with in order to increase our effectiveness in leading them. His post "What Rocks Are Your Followers Carrying," gives a good overview of how to observe, engage, and share with others.

This short and simple post suggested by Rebecca Henderson, one of our faithful readers, is a good reminder to pay attention to the people closest to us.

Several months after I first read it, I still remember this post by Amy Bryant because she so clearly displays valuing and engaging others by showing appreciation for them. Even if you don't know her, reading this post will probably inspire you to say thank you to the people who are making a difference in your life.

To value others by being respectful, Tanmay Vora reminds leaders to be postive.

Art Petty has six ideas about high performance that center on relationships and communication.

This last minute submission from Mike Henry, Sr. asks "Who Do You Love?" and stresses the importance of valuing employees.

Next month's theme is "A Leader Develops Others' Capacity." I would appreciate submissions for next month's round-up. Feel free to write a post to submit for next month or dig into your archives and send a link. I look forward to our discussion throughout the month about this important leadership topic.

Also, please feel free to share a link in the comment section of this post to any other posts on January's topic.

Comments

[Monica Diaz]

WOW! Thanks for this great lineup! Your favorite bloggers are many of mine. I have actually read the posts by Tom, Mary Jo, Art and Jennifer, but will surely get to the others. Thanks for this resource and for the whole monthful of posts! You know you are also one of my favorite bloggers? Here's my take on engagement (Wrote it a while back, but liked coming back to it, thanks for the reminder)
http://www.e-quidam.com/theblog/?p=86

[Meredith Bell]

Excellent collection of posts on an ever-important topic, Becky. The diversity of authors and posts makes for great reading. Thanks for introducing me to some writers I wasn't familiar with and for links to many of my favorites!

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Great collection. Even added a few to my Google Reader list.

[Tanveer Naseer]

Hi Becky,

Thanks for putting together this wonderful list; I see a lot of my favourites listed here and I'm honoured to find myself included as well.

This is a great idea of yours to collect pieces looking at a particular theme; makes for both an enjoyable and insightful read. Thanks for putting this list together and sharing it in such an easy-to-reference format.

[Tanmay Vora]

Becky - Thanks so much for putting up this wonderful list and I am glad to be included here.

The best thing about theme based posts is that it just enriches the conversation and adds so much of value to a particular topic. It is a great start and I look forward to be a part of next month's round-up as well.

Thanks,
Tanmay