Why Does Language Matter So Much in Leadership with Becky Kemp

Thank you.

So I'm going to ask you kind of an intro question.

As I thought about bringing you on the program, it's what caused me to say, yes, you need to be on the program.

And I think you have a lot to offer.

Why does language matter so much for leaders in how they use it, in what they say and when they say it? And I love what you just said.

You've said this before about, you know, putting on words in the morning.

I've always thought that was very a creative way of thinking about it because that's a mindset.

It has nothing to do with clothing.

It's a mindset of what am I going to do? You

know, most of us think more about maybe what we're going to wear today than the way we talk to ourselves and the words we put on.

But the interesting thing is our brain is just a big processor and it focuses and there's a lot of research behind us, but it focuses on what we tell it to.

And so if we focus on the negative, the negative grows.

So why a leader needs to have good leadership with language is a leader has to have the vision to and to be influential to influence the people that he's leading or she's leading.

And what you think about, this is kind of what I'll say sometimes, but what you think about, you bring about.

I mean, it's that simple.

Anything that gets created has to first be a thought.

So any leader has to first have a vision of something being created.

And then there's the implementation process.

And as you know, nothing ever goes as planned.

There's always going to be problems.

And if you learn how to lead your language, you can always be looking for solutions instead of looking at the obstacles.

Because our brain will do either.

It will look at the problem or the solution.

We get to choose because we're humans.

We actually get to decide the words we focus on.