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In this episode of Team Anywhere, guest Steven Howard, author of “Humony Leadership,” shares insights on the importance of human-centric leadership. Steven emphasizes the need to unlearn traditional management approaches and relearn to lead with a focus on people. He discusses the impact of the pandemic on leadership, highlighting the need for leaders to prioritize their team’s well-being and individual responsibilities.
Human-Centered Leadership
Steven Howard discusses the importance of leading people as human beings, not just as workers. He emphasizes the need for leaders to understand their employees’ responsibilities outside of work, like caring for family members or being involved in community organizations. By recognizing and supporting these outside responsibilities, leaders can create a more supportive and productive work environment.
Creating Harmony in the Workplace
Steven also delves into the concept of harmony in the workplace. He explains that harmony goes beyond just avoiding conflicts and emphasizes the importance of psychological safety, collaboration, and open-mindedness in a team. He encourages leaders to foster an environment where employees feel comfortable expressing ideas, engaging in productive conflict, and working together towards common goals.
Measuring Harmony and Leadership Self-Awareness
Another key point is the measurement of harmony in the workplace. Steven suggests that employee attrition rates can be a measure of how harmonious a work environment is. He highlights the importance of leadership self-awareness, urging leaders to reflect on their biases, their treatment of employees, and observe the overall climate within their organization to identify areas that may be causing disharmony.
Who is Steven Howard?
Steven Howard is the award-winning author of 22 leadership, business, and professional development books. His latest book is Humony Leadership: Mindsets, Skills and Behaviors for Being a Successful People-Centric Leader. In awarding the book a Gold Medal, the Nonfiction Authors Association called Humony Leadership, “a significant work with an important mission.”
Steven was named one of 2023’s Top 200 Global Biggest Voices in Leadership by the LeadersHum network in recognition of his thought-provoking and leading-edge thinking on leadership. He was named to the 2023 CREA List of top entrepreneurs, influential leaders, and innovators for his thought leadership and writing.
- Website: www.CalienteLeadership.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenbhoward/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@stevenhowardonleadership
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humonyleadership/
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Human-Centered Leadership Quotes
Leaders need to unlearn management and relearn to be human. 
More focus on mentoring, coaching, motivating, and listening is needed to put into the people you’re leading. 
People want to be led, empowered, challenged, and developed. They want to work smart, not just hard. 
Just make sure you understand what you’re doing first as the leader, and then make those little baby steps to fix things that are causing the disharmony in your workplace. 
People have responsibilities outside of the workplace. If we allow them to fulfill those responsibilities, they still get their work done. 
People call collaborating together. They’re cooperating. They’re in flow. You’ve got psychological safety, which Google showed as one of the key aspects of how teams are productive and produce results.
