When facing adverse situations or making difficult decisions, attempt to combine your grit with your grace. While calling upon your strength and determination to do the difficult things, also draw upon your empathy and compassion to ensure that others are acknowledged, that their issues are recognized and that they are treated fairly.”
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Grace: support, humility, respectful, presence, empathy, compassion, emotionally literate, authoritative yet respectful
Tough Decisions:
-require grit to maintain values, but grace to understand other's points of view
-people follow leaders who make tough decisions with grace
-grit gives you experience/tools to make the tough decision. Grace provides you a path for successful presentation/leadership of that decision
-tough decisions require grit-perseverance and courage to facer and deal with consequences and the grace to listen, navigate how people respond
-weighting pros and cons before making the gritty decisions is a graceful leadership skill
Conflict:
-grit to dig deeply and grace to find ease and acceptance
-What is the "post grace" with the conflict or person?
-in every conflict there are 3 positions - yours, mine, and the unbiased truth
-feedback is a gift when we have the grit and grace to deliver and receive it
-leaders must manage the internal conflict of grit and grace
Gender Roles:
-women can and must use both grit and grace - transparency
-women are thought of as needing grace - but grit is necessary too. Men need to be vulnerable and demonstrate grace.
-men are free to operate in a system of grit
-kindness is not a synonym for weakness
-women are expected to have more #grace when dealing with tough situations
-women are defined differently when exercising authority
-Why are men complimented for demonstrating grit and women are complimented for showing grace?