Why you should want to Love Leading

I’m going to take a moment to share a little more about what matters to us at Purple Sky and what we are aiming to achieve with our Love Leading concept.

Let’s start with this quote from Steve Jobs…”The only way to do great work is to love what you do”.

What I love about this quote is that it highlights the importance of having a connection to what we do, through our emotions. That by actually loving what we do, will translate into better outcomes.

Those outcomes could be for the organisation, the people we work with, but more importantly resulting in better outcomes for ourselves. Now, let me be clear, I do not think that this means that anyone who doesn’t love what they do is terrible at it, but I do think if they are not enjoying it, they are unlikely to be getting the most out of it. That’s OK too, if that is what they want and are choosing that, I just think you can choose differently.

The personal enjoyment and love of work can be self-driven but it will be enhanced (or not) by the leaders we have surrounding us. At Purple Sky, our aim is to enable all leaders to Love Leading. We think that having leaders who really enjoy their role, will enable them to be the leaders that teams want to work with and succeed for.

We think that the leaders who really enjoy what they do, will create better experiences for their people, where they can then thrive. We think that the leaders who Love Leading will be remembered for the right reasons, by their teams but also by the organisations they lead in.

The Purple Sky view of the world is that if leaders develop their skills, mindsets and behaviours that this will increase their confidence in their leadership capability.

As leaders build that confidence and see the positive reaction from their team, they’ll continue to value the importance of evolving their leadership practice.

As they experience this, even in the hard times, they will be able to say that they enjoy leading their team, that they enjoy what they do.  This is what we want to be part of, enabling leaders to Love Leading.

To achieve this, we have created the Love Leading concept. This is made of a 3 parts:

• Love Leading Development.

• Love Leading Collection.

• Love Leading Community.

To find out more about the Love Leading concept you can visit our pages here or please get in touch directly with me at anwen@purpleskyconsulting.co.uk