The Art of Alignment with Patty Beach

Are you struggling with leading because of being scared that you’re too hard or too soft? Do you want to know how to get people to listen and follow you as a leader but just don’t know how to?

 

Balancing between choosing masculinity or femininity depending on the given situation is important, especially as a leader. Aligning your attitude and actions based on what the situation is or who you are leading will bring out the best in you as a leader and can help people listen to you and follow you.

 

Patty Beach is the CEO of LeadershipSmarts, a firm that combines leadership best practices and coaching to help managers and executives build a better world in a better way. Her approach to leadership evolved over twenty years of coaching leaders in companies, non-profits, universities, and government agencies.

 

In this episode, Patty shares her insights on how to overcome the masculine model of leading and achieving alignment by welcoming a balance between masculinity and femininity as a leader. She also shares tips on how you can get people to listen and follow you without being too hard, too soft, or stuck in the mushy middle.

 

What you will learn from this episode:

Discover the importance of balancing masculinity and femininity in the workplace as a woman business leader Learn how to become an inclusive leader through practicing alignment Find out ways on how to stop being too hard or too soft or stuck in the middle

 

“The world is a better place when we have a balance of masculine and feminine energy.”

- Patty Beach

Valuable Free Resource:

 

Check out the First FREE Chapter of Patty’s Book. Visit: leadershipsmarts.com

Topics Covered:

 

02:33 - Challenge is attaining alignment between the leader and the group, and the so-called masculine model that businesses still follow

 

03:22 - Being too hard or too soft towards people which makes it hard to achieve alignment and make things work: a common mistake business women leaders make

 

04:18 - One free and actionable tip you can do to achieve alignment and make people listen and follow you: I really believe it's the combination of masculine or feminine energy in men and women that will create the best outcome

 

06:36 - One valuable resource to learn more about the four steps and 5 C’s of alignment: Check out the First FREE Chapter of Patty’s Book. Visit: leadershipsmarts.com

 

07:46 - Q: How do you go about bringing people into that equation to co-create with you so that it's not just about you, it's about the people that you're bringing along?

A: When you're trying to get people to move in a particular direction, and you're going to include people, before you ever ask them, get clear in your own mind. What is it that you really believe for yourself?

 

Key Takeaways:

 

“By practicing this principle of versatility, which is turning from the masculine to feminine, so being as masculine as you need to be and as feminine as you need to be, you know, not having this mushy middle place, right, is that actionable tip that I want to share with people because sometimes people don't think of it that way. They think they have to be just the right, you know, like one cup of this, and, you know, one cup of that.” - Patty Beach

 

“The main thing is just to write it down, come in with what you have in mind. It's not that it's anchored, you know, it'll move. But if you don't have that, you will lose sight of yourself.”

- Patty Beach

 

“If you find a place where you've got misalignment between the people that come into your inclusion, there's usually a solution that will work for you and work for them.” - Patty Beach

Ways to Connect with Patty Beach:

 

Email: pbeach@leadershipsmarts.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pattybeach/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pgbeach Website: https://www.leadershipsmarts.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leadershipsmarts.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LeadershipSmarts

 

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