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From: Tkatchov, O., & Tkatchov, M. (2020). Proactive professional learning: creating conditions for individual and organizational improvement. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
The Ohio State University Leadership Center is celebrating 30 years of continued education, professional development, and research-based programming.
We hope you are able to join us for a complimentary special event on December 4, 2020 from 9-10:30am EST digitally over Zoom.
"Parents are constantly talking about and strategizing about their kids. Business leaders do the same about their staff. Parenting and team leadership are two of the toughest things you will ever try, and for many of the same reasons.
"Relationship management represents the level that all people that want to lead aspire to. This is being able to become a great, brave leader that everyone is proud of. This is to be able to better influence people. It is everything that emotional intelligence culminates into and it defines how you are better able to interact with everyone else. As you are able to better process everything, you become better at understanding the nuances of relationships. You see how to influence and how to lead. To be strong in this competency is to be able to really roll with the ways in which you live.
"Leadership is an interesting quality. This crazy world can make it seem like you've got to be bossy to be a boss. The notion of having everyone watching you is a cue to your leadership, but so is the idea that you are looking at everyone else.
"Kindness is the answer because our world is so busy and intense. Inevitably, that can lead to short tempers, burnout, increasing anger, and defensive debates. Witnessing kindness brings renewed hope in humanity in the face of jadedness. Kindness keeps us sane when the demands of juggling work and relationships put us on edge and fill us with the urge to lash out.
We can cause irreparable damage when we are unkind, which can lead to becoming numb or unsympathetic - something none of us can afford. We all have the ability to 'stop the madness' by being purposefully kind.
"In the world of mountain climbing, there's such a thing as a false summit. As you climb toward the summit, from a distance it appears to be the pinnacle of the mountain, your ultimate goal. But as you approach it, you finally see that it is in fact a smaller peak, not the true summit you were aiming for at all. Your hopes dashed, you may despair and even lack the will and desire to continue!
