“People are crying out for leadership, they’re crying out for a purpose,” says Carrie Cahill, executive coach at Fortune Management. Although COVID-19 ostensibly is responsible for a mass exodus of 40 percent of people from the workplace, Carrie and John argue that COVID was merely an opportunity for people to make changes that they had wanted to make for a while. People are looking for careers that tie together their values and can offer them recognition and a purpose that they can attach themselves to. In short, people will stay on a career path with which they are in alignment, and leaders have to ask themselves how they can provide that alignment.

In this episode, John discusses his disappointment in how many leaders handled the COVID-19 crisis. Carrie discusses the importance of being vulnerable in order to achieve growth, constantly pushing yourself out of your comfort zone, and being fully present when honestly assessing where you as a leader are and where your team is.

Join the conversation to hear three to five things that you can start to do to adopt better leadership principles and how COVID revealed all the phonies in the workplace.

Quotes

• “COVID changed our environment significantly. So, it forced people to make a very uncomfortable decision and it wasn’t one that they made by choice. If they were willing to make that choice, it wouldn’t have required COVID to lose 40 percent of the workforce.” (7:07-7:25 | John)

• “If they don’t see their career as expansive, and I’m not talking about raises or promotions, but if you’re not constantly being presented with opportunities to grow and learn and develop in your area of expertise, you’re going to seek that out, especially when you’ve had time to think about it.” (11:05-11:22 | Carrie)

• “People need to be vulnerable in order to grow. Without comfort in vulnerability, you really can’t grow as a human being because you have to step into the unknown.” (32:06-32:19 | Carrie)

• “There are a couple of things that I encourage folks to do: one is to get around people who look at things differently than you do and to ask a lot of questions.”(41:51-42:03 | Carrie)

• “That’s true leadership. The first person to take the bullet is the leader.”(44:12-44:19 | John)

Links

Carrie Cahill’s Report:

https://www.dentalproductsreport.com/view/a-cry-for-leadership-the-great-resignation-of-2022

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https://www.fortunemgmt.com

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