The shift to humble leadership
While we're in difficult times, there has emerged a positive shift towards humble leadership among individuals, SMEs and policy makers. In fact, during lockdown, Mindhive welcomed our 10,000th thought leader. Ultimately, we know we're stronger together.
The article How Humble Leadership Really Works (Harvard Business Review) sums up the key leaderships traits we’re seeing emerge.
First of all, what defines a humble leader?
"servant-leaders have the humility, courage, and insight to admit that they can benefit from the expertise of others who have less power than them. This is how servant leaders create a culture of learning, and an atmosphere that encourages followers to become the very best they can.”
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Humility and servant leadership do not imply that leaders have low self-esteem, or take on an attitude of servility. Instead, servant leadership emphasizes that the responsibility of a leader is to increase the ownership, autonomy, and responsibility of followers — to encourage them to think for themselves and try out their own ideas.
What does this look like in practice?
Ask questions. Listen and act on ideas. Then celebrate successes together.
Create a low risk space to think up, share and experiment with ideas. Read more on the role of private spaces – here.
Be humble. “when leaders are humble, show respect, and ask how they can serve employees as they improve the organization, the outcomes can be outstanding.”
Part of our culture is to continually ask our members why they joined and how they use Mindhive. Recently, this humble leadership mindset has been front and centre. Many saw Mindhive as the low risk space for their staff, clients or community to share ideas. The way they see it, this approach isn’t just good for business, it also enables them to be part of something bigger.
Karen Whenan, Founder of Design Thinking Co. and our 10,000th member said:
“I want to use different tools and get better outcomes for society. Mindhive lets me tap into global expertise and spark off the energy of other people who are motivated by a common purpose of solving a problem.”
Larry Quick, MD of Resilient Futures said he sees Mindhive as a curated source of information to help him track what's going on in the world.
"We are no longer working in the 'square metres economy' where the size of the room determines who can participate in the discussion."
Michele Gennoe, Resilience Coach and CEO at On Purpose Transformation said she likes the way Mindhive shows different ways to view problems which is helpful to remove bias.
"For me the value is in seeing a problem through a different lens."
Creating a digital, low-risk space for your network isn’t hard. Here’s some info on how Mindhive works and how to get started. If you need private discussion spaces, you can trial our our premium membership free for 30 days.
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