Jacob works as a Senior Management Consultant at Maersk Training. Here he works mainly with team development. Jacob has a background as an export engineer, psychotherapist, national team rower and coach, and a sergeant in the Air Force. In this episode, we talk about what characterizes a humanistic leadership style and how you can become better at demonstrating humane behavior in your daily leadership. We also touch on the paradox of how you can drive goal-oriented and result-oriented leadership, while still being able to embrace the human aspects of your collaboration.
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Topics we get through in this episode:
- How can you train yourself to become more human in your leadership?
- How do you balance the needs of the individual employee with the goals of the organization?
- What benefits will you and your organization experience from having a more humanistic focus?
- Can you fake humanistic leadership?
- How can you look for role models in humanistic leadership?
- What is the relationship between your self-awareness as a leader and your ability to accommodate other people?