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Trier Bryant: Follow To Lead in Leadership
How good of a follower are you to become a good leader? To be a good leader, you must first be a great follower. A leader who is also a great follower expresses empathy towards their team members, supports humility, and also builds a culture of self-generative team members.
In this episode of Unlikely Leadership, we have Trier Bryant who talks about the power of followership in leadership. She explains the importance of teaching your team how to follow to be competent leaders.
Listen in to learn how to allow your team to experience all types of feelings, and shape the adjective to be used with their style of leadership. You will also learn Beyonce’s leadership style and why you should aspire for it.
Meet Our Guest Trier Bryant
Trier Bryant is Co-Founder and CEO of Just Work. She’s previously held leadership roles at Astra, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, and proudly served as a combat veteran in the Air Force as a Captain leading engineering teams while spearheading diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. She has been featured as an influential DEI practitioner by several publications and outlets from USA Today to CNN and SXSW. Trier is an Air Force Academy graduate and enjoys spending time with her family who live by the motto “…good enough isn’t.”
What You Will Learn in this Episode:
- [0:57] Just give a sh*t and have consideration to be a compelling leader.
- [4:21] Learn how to pause, listen, and teach your people how to follow you as a leader.
- [9:00] Shape the adjective your team will use to define your leadership.
- [13:40] Trier on the lessons and questions she had to ask to become a relationship cultivating leader.
- [23:06] Understanding what you need and how to set boundaries to achieve it.
- [26:26] What Beyonce taught Trier about leadership. Be the leader that attracts people to your orbit.
