JLBC TAKING UP YOUR LEADERSHIP ROLE
JLBC Working on relationships
From your earliest days as a leader, you will need to build relationships with your team and various stakeholders throughout the organization. Understanding and empathizing with people is a crucial skill. Thinking of relationships in terms of “stories” gives you tools to understand what drives others and helps productive interpersonal relationships thrive.
85% of CEOs agree a firm’s financial performance is tied to empathy
JLBC Telling stories
We each carry in our heads our own stories—the narratives we have constructed over the years to make sense of our collected experiences, emotions, habits, and thoughts. These stories bias our perspective in new situations and may push us toward embracing challenges or constrain our actions.
Relationships are built by exchanging these stories with other people we meet. As we tell our stories, we disclose more about ourselves, our backgrounds, roles, and beliefs—and create new, emergent stories. Just as individuals have their own stories, so do organizations;
these stories encompass the history and values of that organization and describe how they get things done.
Do the stories convey a solid moral code, judgments, or beliefs?
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