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Coralie Sawruk: Leadership That Creates Trust
Coralie is a Business Transformation consultant who helps global organizations create efficient team dynamics. She believes the ultimate competitive advantage is made of the right talents working hand-in-hand, cheerfully.
Coralie is fascinated by mind transformation and human skills. She regularly shares her leadership insights on how to “work happy” at coraliesawruk.com
Podcast Time Stamps
[5:51] – Coralie shares about her business – helping people to work together and working with businesses particularly in personnel and interpersonal interaction.
[6:39 ] – Coralie’s lesson on how she realized why investing in people is important
[9:07] – Coralie talks about some of the obstacles that people have and how she helps them to change. Particularly, she talks about helping people develop their confidence. The fear of failure is very present in the corporate world and to overcome this, leaders must give their team members trust and become more people driven.
[11:00] – The relationship between trust and team members’ confidence is fragile. A lack of trust can create broken teams where people are disengaged and lack communication. This prevents teams from moving beyond their comfort zones and taking risks to move forward.
[13:00] – How can leaders move beyond destructive patterns of leadership that hurt their teams? Leaders need to address their past and their personality – how do they fit into their role first and foremost – it’s a personal introspection. Then they must understand how to resolve problems. In life there are no obstacles, only enigmas.
[16:42] – Coralie talks about self-awareness for leaders and how important it is for leaders to learn how to work with people and improve their social interactions. Workplaces without some type of break can be overworked and problematic work spaces for the people involved.
[19:04] – Coralie talks about herself a bit, her personal journey and her keys to success in her life. The biggest one is to never give up. Along with that is learning how to pivot. We can’t replicate the past and we must learn how to pivot and change as our culture and work environments change.
[21:03] – What does it mean for Coralie to be successful? It’s to work for something bigger than herself. This is important because it doesn’t involve any material aspects.
[23:47] – Coralie talks about the lessons she learned from her biggest failure – moving from Singapore to London and dealing with having to give up a successful business. When you hit the wall, you can keep feeling like a failure or you accept the path of growth. Not getting what you want is sometimes an immense stroke of luck. You must let go of your expectations and realize the plan may be better if you’re not always in control of it. You need to revisit your expectations regularly.
[26:46] – The biggest challenge that Coralie is facing right now? Dealing with communicating and working with people from different generations. Finding solutions to bridge that distance is an enigma because these people think differently.
Resources and Places to Connect with Coralie:
Website: http://www.coraliesawruk.com/fresh-ideas
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coralie.sawruk
Twitter: @coraliesawruk
Slideshare: @coraliesawruk
Top learning moments
- Businesses do better when they invest in their people. Specifically, leadership that trusts helps to develop employees who are confident. When we don’t trust, we create an environment of suspicion that can be very destructive for people and ultimately organizations.
- Learning how to pivot and never give up. We all hit the wall at some point in our lives. For some of us, those walls come more than once. When that happens, you can sit down and feel like a failure, or you can accept the path of growth. As she said, sometimes not getting what you want is an immense stroke of luck. That’s a new perspective that we can all adopt.
- Success is being able to answer yes to the question “is what I’m doing beneficial to someone else?” So many times, we focus our success on what we can get for ourselves, but there’s a different level that we need to be on. We might call it the Meta-level. And that’s when we get beyond ourselves and begin to think about things that are bigger than we are – we think about what we are doing for others and to make the world a better place.
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