The Leadership Decision with Dr Catherine Rymsha

Dr. Catherine Rymsha is a leadership development expert and lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She’s a TEDx speaker and also the author of the book, The Leadership Decision. In this show, you can learn about: What the leadership decision is and how you make it How to use the A.P.E. Model to make the decision Why listening is a key component in leadership The importance of getting more feedback in your day to day Join our Tribe at https://leadership-hacker.com Music: " Upbeat Party " by Scott Holmes courtesy of the Free Music Archive FMA Transcript: Thanks to Jermaine Pinto at JRP Transcribing for being our Partner. Contact Jermaine via LinkedIn or via his site JRP Transcribing Services Find out more about Catherine below: Catherine on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crymsha/ The Leadership Decision Website: https://www.theleadershipdecision.com Catherine’s TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cARuUGgSl7I Catherine on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theleadershipdecision/   Full Transcript Below ----more---- Steve Rush: Some call me Steve, dad, husband or friend. Others might call me boss, coach or mentor. Today you can call me The Leadership Hacker.   Thanks for listening in. I really appreciate it. My job as the leadership hacker is to hack into the minds, experiences, habits and learning of great leaders, C-Suite executives, authors and development experts so that I can assist you developing your understanding and awareness of leadership. I am Steve Rush and I am your host today. I am the author of Leadership Cake. I am a transformation consultant and leadership coach. I cannot wait to start sharing all things leadership with you   Dr. Catherine Rymsha is a special guest on today's show. She is a leadership development expert. A lecture at University of Massachusetts Lowell. And she's also the author of The Leadership Decision. But before we get a chance to speak with Catherine, it's The Leadership Hacker News.   The Leadership Hacker News Steve Rush: If you've already made the decision to lead or contemplating making that decision now, indeed it could be you're helping others to make the decision to lead. The question many people often find themselves asking, is, are leaders born or bred? Do I just have it? And it's a persistent question that we've been asking for years, some senior managers and policymakers believe it's absolutely true. That leads the bread that they must come from the right background, have the right characteristics and have the right genes. While others argue strongly that anybody could be made into a leader given the right training or support. So, who's right?   Well, the answer is a bit of both. In fact, there are two elements to be a good leader. Certainly, they must have the right individual characteristics. The desirable characteristics that include proactivity and tiny levels of intelligence, proactivity and fluid intelligence are innate traits, but crystallized intelligence is experiential and gained as part of our education and learning experiences. So therefore, it might be really difficult for somebody who's highly introverted to Excel when the role calls for extroversion, charismatic and transformational leadership approaches, it's difficult to learn how to go against one's intrinsic feelings, right? Each leadership approach like transformational leadership or transactional leadership and a like, cause for very different levels of behaviors and the ability to exhibit that behavior is conditioned by our own personal characteristics, beliefs and mindsets. The personal individual characteristics are part territory and part experiential and research suggests that 30% of our leadership competence is hereditary. So those who say that leaders are bred up partly right, but that also means that for the rest, 70% of the potential leaders, characteristics are all about their understanding and adapting to the upbringing early experiences, life experiences, whi