MeetMyPotential podcasts was created for HIGH ACHIEVERS. High achievers who aspire to meet their highest INNER POTENTIAL.
Each episode brings to you an INSIGHT and a TIP that you can apply at work, or in relationship or in life. In these episodes Deepa chats with senior leaders around the world once a week or simply shares her insights.
#120 The Limits of a Controlling Culture with Jan Gilg
A key aspect of Leadership is realizing that you cannot be in every detail of a project for your organization. Instead, you have to trust your team to run experiments, fail often and quickly and provide you with feedback of what is working and sometimes more importantly, what’s not working. So, how do you let go of being in control of all the details? What ingredients are needed to create a culture of collective responsibility instead of control?
Today Deepa speaks with Jan Gilg about the limits of a controlling culture. Jan tells us how we can create empowered workplaces that build trust and growth for all.
Jan’s Tips for Avoiding Control Culture:
- Clarity is key. Give your employees the freedom to make decisions. Giving them this environment lets them get out of their comfort zone and grow. Stay away from the “how”.
- Over communicate with team members. Give boundaries and set up the right framework.
- Fail often, fail early is a key philosophy, not only in the Technology industry.
- Total consensus is not the goal in projects.
- As a leader- the more concerns you can hear, the better.
- Vulnerability is needed for all of these aspects of a product: running experiments, having feedback sessions and how things are going, and there is a sounding board as well.
- Articulate a clear vision and strategy in addition to acknowledging nothing is going to be perfect. Create the safety to have open communication, including challenges. This creates collective responsibility in the system.
- It’s important to acknowledge and accept the realities of the world and life. We need to give employees more flexibility.
- You have to take time to create team spirit which builds collaboration and connection.
- Everyone needs to feel like they are part of something bigger than themselves, make sure you connect your people to that purpose and vision which will unlock potential and motivation. This creates amazing things.
We hope you liked this episode! Let us know, what’s a piece of advice from Jan that you’d like to start incorporating in your organization?
Please feel free to connect with Jan and Deepa through LinkedIn to continue the conversation.
About Jan
Jan Gilg is President and Chief Product officer of SAP S/4HANA, which is SAP’s flagship product that encompasses ERP, finance, and supply chain. In this role he has global responsibility for the development, delivery, and product management of SAP S/4HANA, SAP’s Industry solutions, as well as the Digital Supply Chain portfolio. He is a cloud evangelist, a customer advocate and a business problem solver. He is based in Walldorf Germany, but lived in the US for many years.
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15 Nov 2022
#119 How to Stay True to Yourself While in a Leadership Role with Anjana Sivakumar
Have you ever felt a disconnect between who you are outside of work and who you are at the workplace? Have you ever felt like you can’t be with the politics and the way restructuring and tough decisions are made inside your organizations?
Today Deepa speaks with Anjana Sivakumar about authentic Leadership. Anjana has real tactical advice that you can start to use immediately. These are things they don’t teach you in business school!
Anjana’s Tips for Authentic Leadership:
- Authentic Leadership starts with knowing who you are and having a good sense of your personal values. You have to feel comfortable in your own skin. And this comes across in every role you have - be it Executive, parent or child, volunteer.
- How to stay true to yourself while dealing with sensitive information at work and dealing with colleagues/friends.
- Don’t feel like you need to stay in a rigid box in a Leadership role. Bring your personality to the role.
- Being Authentic builds trust and connection. Acknowledge the uncomfortable or hard things.
- Don’t go the easy route and blame another person, own your mistakes. We lose a lot of time doing impression management and stressing over these situations!
- Communicate organizational changes and then listen to others as they go through their emotions.
We hope you liked this episode! Let us know - what’s hard about being authentic in your Leadership role? Do you feel comfortable enough to be human?
Please feel free to connect with Anjana and Deepa through LinkedIn to continue the conversation.
About Anjana
Anjana Sivakumar is a dynamic HR executive with over 20 years of experience across various industries. She has worked with C-suite and senior leaders in numerous global organizations, both large and small. Her experience spans various facets of HR, from talent and leadership development to operating model and organizational design to DEI strategy development and implementation.
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10 Oct 2022
#118 Stepping from Management into Leadership with Tony Stead
As a highly driven person, you are so good at problem solving. And most likely, you have been promoted again and again because you get things done, you achieve and solve the problems at hand. But at a certain point, these problem solving traits do not help you get to the next level. So, are you ready to take your leadership to the next level?
Today Deepa speaks with Tony Stead from Airbus Defence and Space about stepping into Leadership. It’s important to acknowledge the different mindset that is needed between management and leadership - leadership requires letting go and building collective responsibility. Let’s move from management into leadership!
Tony’s Tips for Stepping into Leadership:
- As a manager, you can be great at all the doing, problem-solving. Leadership is more about stepping back and reflecting - seeing the whole picture.
- When you are growing within your company, the way to stand out is to deliver results. When you are promoted to a higher leader, you have to focus less on delivering as an individual and focus more on the bigger picture and delegating to your team. Leadership is about letting go.
- Leaders need to focus on the problems of tomorrow instead of problems of today.
- Making the transition from management to leadership is much like going from a parent to a grandparent.
- Leadership is about finding the needle in the haystack. It isn’t about knowing everything.
- You can’t lead with buzz words. You will lose connection with your team.
We hope you liked this episode! Let us know - where are you getting stuck between moving from management to leadership? And where are you succeeding at becoming a leader?
Please feel free to connect with Tony and Deepa through LinkedIn to continue the conversation.
About Tony
Tony Stead is currently based in Munich working for Airbus Defence and Space. He has been working within the Middle East and Europe for the last 15 years. He focuses on the agility of the team, the agility of the business and the agility of the project to improve our operational effectiveness and ways of engaging the stakeholder community. Tony is also a Fellow at the Institute of Leadership and Management.
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