Leadership is a privilege - how to get the most out of work and leadership

In the seventh episode of our new mini series of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Kubair Shirazee. 

This series was recorded at CHS Leeds, a tradeshow for the Meeting and Events industry.

Episode highlights:

• What Kubair loves about life and what he does to live well.
• Kubair’s definition of the agile workforce
• Ways to make our work more fulfilling
• Being our authentic selves both at home and in the workplace
• Aligning our personal values at work
• Finding out what motivates your workforce
• The importance of trust in the workplace
• Advice Kubair would give people who do not feel aligned within their organisation or role
• Getting buy in from employees on the organisations mission and values
• The importance of open communication within the workplace, irrelevant of seniority
• Viewing leadership as a privilege

Key Takeaways:

• The key thing is finding a space where we can be our authentic selves. - Kubair
• You have this policy, but what does that mean in terms of your values? Why do you have it? What does that mean for me day to day? - Kubair
• It's important that we feel that sense of connectedness, that sense of trust and belonging. - Kubair
• Someone said to me; not all problems need to be solved. Some of them just need to be heard. - Emma
• I don't want to have a company where everybody hates their jobs or everyone's looking for another job because then they're not going to be focused. - Emma
• Having that vision articulated in a way that everyone can relate to is even more important because we need people to buy into our vision. - Kubair
• I should be 100% accessible to my teammates, to my customers, to my stakeholders, to my competitors, because it's all about conversation. - Kubair

Resources:

• Elon Musk
• Clive Woodward

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