International Leadership Week 2024

Hello Leaders, Readers, and Podcast Listeners!

Next week, it’s International Leadership Week 2024 #ILW24, a.k.a. my second favourite week of the year (following close on the heels of the joint winners of that coveted title: Christmas Week, and May-the-Fourth-Be-With-You week).

In this edition of Leader Not A Boss, I’ll give you a quick rundown of what I’ll be doing to celebrate ILW this year, and a bunch of links to events and resources where you can go and learn more or join me in celebrating.

International Leadership Week is all about community, and uniting leaders across the world, people who are passionate about leadership and raising the standard in workplaces and organisations everywhere.

People like me and, I hope, people like you!

It's run by the Institute of Leadership, and every year they pick a different theme for the week, this year it's all about collaborating for success.

If the goal of leadership is enabling effective teams working towards a common goal, then the core of that is collaboration.

Next week on Leading with integrity: Leadership talk, for ILW’24 there will be daily new episodes (that’s 5 in a week, it’s literally like Christmas!) and we’ll be chatting to some briliant guests about key topics that are central to collaborative success. Things like Clarity, Communication, Trust, Psychological Safety, Understanding Roles & Responsibilities, Inclusive Behaviours, and what Leaders can do to ensure your people are seen, heard, and valued.

All of these things speak very much to the heart of modern leadership and what leading with integrity is all about, in fact Collaborate is one of the 5 pillars of my leading with integrity approach, so I couldn't be more excited to get into this vital topic!

We're going to touch on many of these ideas and more, and we'll be hearing from leaders and experts across the spectrum of life, career, industry and background.

Here’s a quick list of the episodes to watch out for:

• Ep.104: Collaborating for success | International Leadership Week 2024

• Ep.105: Don’t Be Afraid To Bomb: Storytelling, Comedy, and Sharing The Magic Of Leadership, with Ray Lauk

• Ep.106: Anchoring Leadership – Lessons in Leading, Collaborating & Diversity, with Raymond Kemp Sr.

• Ep.107: What Disney Taught Me About Leading People Well, with Summer Jelinek

• Ep.108: Reflections on International Leadership Week 2024 – What Did I Learn?

And to add an extra sense of occasion to it all, all 5 of these episodes will be Live Premiering on YouTube at midday (UK time) each day next week. To make sure you don’t miss any, here’s some more links:

Register for this LinkedIn event for Ep.104 and Follow The Podcast to get notified about the following 4 episodes. Subscribe and follow on YouTube, and/or join Integrity Leaders (more on that at the bottom of the page!).

That’s everything I’ll be running myself next week, in between all that, here’s what else I’ll be doing:

1. On Monday morning, I’m going to the hybrid kick off event being run by the Institute of Leadership - you can check out their ILW24 events at this page.

2. At 0930 on Tuesday, I plan to attend an International Leadership Week Collaboration Event hosted by fellow Fellow of the Institute, Nicola Rylett-Jones - here’s the link for that.

3. On Wednesday afternoon, I’ll be listening in to Episode 7 of Clayton Drotsky’s excellent Challenge the Leadership Narrative, here’s more info. for that one too!

4. Finishing the week with the IoL’s virtual conference session on Friday afternoon (use the same link as 1. above if you want to join).

It’s going to be a week filled with learning, great conversations, and reflections on an essential aspect of any effective leadership approach. I can’t wait.

Thanks for reading, I’ll talk to you next week and hope to see you live at one of the episode premieres or other events.

In the meantime, Happy Friday, have an amazing weekend, and:

Be a Leader, Not a Boss!

David

In case you don’t know me that well, I’m David Hatch and I’m here to help new managers and first time founders with their leadership skills, supporting them to become leaders not bosses and to lead with integrity, so they can build happier, more effective teams, better performing companies and, ultimately, more successful businesses.

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