Sonya SheltonCEO of Executive Leadership Consulting

Sonya Shelton: What makes a strong executive?

Name: Sonya Shelton: What makes a strong executive?
Uploaded: 2022-05-16T19:40:41+00:00
Duration: 30 s
Channel: Sonya Shelton
Description: Brief spoken advice from leadership coach Sonya Shelton: strong executives build connection by spending time on the front line—visiting locations, doing…

16 May 2022 · 1 min

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Brief spoken advice from leadership coach Sonya Shelton: strong executives build connection by spending time on the front line—visiting locations, doing walk-arounds, talking directly with staff to understand daily life and challenges and to create dialogue. This excerpt emphasizes in-person presence and listening as key to effective executive leadership.

When I'm coaching leaders on their leadership, where I've seen really strong connection are those executives that actually spend time on the front line. They're coming to their location, they're spending time understanding them, they're talking to them, they're doing walk arounds right in factories and things like that. To say, what is life like here? And stopping and talking to people and really giving a chance to have that dialogue and understand some of the challenges that they're facing.