Short interview/transcript excerpt in which Sonya Shelton and another speaker discuss core qualities of effective leaders: presence, genuine care, creating environments where people feel their work matters, and how culture and leadership intertwine to inspire people to contribute and even lead. The passage emphasizes connection, meaning, and enabling others to exceed expectations.
What would you say are some of.
The qualities of a really incredible leader in your experience?
Yeah, I would say.
Being present, like.
Being with people when you're talking to.
Them really.
Help having them connecting with them.
Right.
So not even what you say, but how you're saying it. And do you really care about them? When I see.
And this moves a little, a little bit in the crossover between leadership and culture.
They're very intertwined.
If you're creating.
An environment where people.
Feel like they're contributing.
And what they're.
Doing matters.
It has meaning and you care about them, they will fulfill your.
Vision beyond even what you thought was possible.
Not only are.
They inspired, but they're.
So inspired that they almost.
Start leading you.
They come up with ideas.
Oh, well, this is where we're going.
What have we tried that and creating that environment to really help people see that what they're doing matters.