Name: Quiet leaders
Uploaded: 2022-01-31T16:45:11.000Z
Duration: 9 min 49 s
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She leads a large Maori tribe, but not in the way you'd expect.

You can show strength in different ways when it's needed,

but I think people will respect leadership more

if they feel that you are listening to them.

Their leadership could be described as quiet,

And how do they compare to the more brash leaders we might be used to?

They use their personality to get what they want.

Scientists are more used to watching than being listened to:

But in the Covid pandemic, they have led more than ever

and changed the lives of billions of people.

Tim Spector: a professor of genetics in the UK.

Thanks to him and his team, people around the world found out

that losing your sense of taste and smell were symptoms of Covid.

Anthony Fauci took over America's Disease Institute in 1984,

dealing with things like a relatively small Zika outbreak.

But that meant he was perfect to help lead the response to coronavirus.

and he disagreed with President Donald Trump.

The China vaccine, the vaccines that are produced in the United States –

I don't think it's going to be one winner and only one vaccine:

what the world needs is more than one vaccine.

So, what can we learn from quiet leaders?

And is this style of leadership really the best way?

We've been taught to believe that we have to be loud, brash,

push ourselves forwards, be dominant, be in charge – in command.

And some cultures, you know, really promote this idea

But what the research shows – that, in fact, this kind of leadership

can be very diminishing in an organisation,

that can weaken relationships and so, if we've got a...

a loud leader, who's really silencing others,

which is really unleashing the talent of its peoples.

So, loud leaders can drown out other talented voices

If you look at these leaders from the scientific community,

particularly those that have being leading the Covid response,

Dr Ashley Bloomfield over here in New Zealand,

what we see is this sense of calm, quiet assuredness.

They're very calm under pressure, very resilient and steadfast.

They look to evidence to provide them with information

that they give out in a very clear, unambiguous way.

So, quiet leaders bring calm assurance and steadfastness –

qualities that are seen in Maori leadership in New Zealand.

Leadership in the Maori culture can be more like a... a kind of a triangle.

Whereas in some cultures you'll see that, you know, it's more like this –

and the leader's on top and everything, sort of, trickles down from the leader.

Well Maori culture's more like an inverted triangle,

and their task is to listen to the views of others and...

So, they really cultivate this idea of listening, of paying attention.

And leadership is very much vested in the collective,

Quiet leadership comes from listening to others.

Maori leaders listen to the views of their group

So, can we see similarities with our scientists?

Yeah, I think from what I can gather from Fauci and other scientists is that,

you know, in the face of adversity, they weren't reacting to it.

They... they were more responsive, not reactive.

So, they were really stepping into that moment,

with that calm assuredness, based on evidence –

and I think that's very important – not on opinion

and not needing to speak loudly in order to be heard –

but when they did speak, people listened.

There is a big difference between responding –

and reacting, which is the result of emotion and opinion.

So, should we all aspire to be quiet leaders?

We take this journey of unfolding to become better leaders,

better listeners, to develop that quiet confidence

and to know that we don't have to speak just for the sake of it,

or for the sake of hearing our own voice being heard.

So, I think this is a quality that we can all cultivate in ourselves

So, it's not always about simply just being silent and quiet,

managing our defaults, habits, reactions, judgements

and to look at how we could have done better in a certain situation.

So, quiet leadership isn't about staying silent;

Linda Te Aho brings the qualities of Maori leadership to her work.

She leads the Waikato-Tainui, one of the largest tribes,

It has around 80,000 people across the North Island.

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