Yesterday I attended a seminar for women entrepreneurs arranged by the so called Junior Chamber Havis Amanda. The seminar was well organised with really interesting speakers as the CEO of Kalevala Koru Laura Lares, Riitta Saarikangas an experienced educator and coach, Juha Rouvinen from the digital media agency Gyllene Skor, Sisko Sammallahti from Stockmann and the legendary Esko Reinonpoika Alanko. All the speakers gave their own contribution in inspiring the women listeners to believe in their capabilities, to be aware of their own values and staying truthful no matter what. I especially liked the way Laura Lares used alliteration and metaphors and that's really one thing we should remember: leadership is mostly about talking in a convincing and down-to-earth way. So why don't we have rhetorics as a mandatory subject in our business universities?
What else then? One woman in the audience asked Laura Lares about the three most important characteristics of a good leader. She answered like this: Predictability, Fairness and A true enjoyment in other people's work. This is something I would have loved to discuss more...I would like to add that a true enjoyment in other people's success and happiness is something that should characterize not only leaders but everyone of us. But maybe the leaders enhance the feeling of success and happiness?
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