1. What is your personal philosophy on leadership? How do you apply it to your workplace?

• Enable others to feel empowered

• Lead from background

• Give others the ability to take the reigns and receive feedback from him

• Feels comfortable when others lead and he can oversee the actions

  • Provides a sense of freedom

• Likes to create a balance with his students

 

2. What is one characteristic every leader should possess?

• Humbleness

• Affirmation—telling his workers they’re doing a good job, positive reinforcement

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3. What are you doing to ensure you continue to grow and develop as a leader?

• Practice

• Reflect and share experiences

• Professionally, he is doing stuff such as attending a sustainability conference where he reviews various proposals

  • Takes it one step further to look and read these proposals

• Taking a course on becoming a better bike instructor

• Personally, he practices leadership qualities on a daily basis

 

4. What advice do you have for someone going into a leadership position for the first time?

• Set clear guidelines

  • Trello

• Setting guidelines helps establish what he expects and also opens on communication with workers

  • More comfortable assessing the feasibility of tasks and working with workers to create realistic guidelines

• Practice—he was really big on practicing leadership

  • Don’t be afraid to fail