Elegance: A Leader’s Super-Power with Heather Hansen

Where does elegance fit for a leader?

Elegance in leadership is being able to choose your standard. 

How do you maintain your integrity as a leader when things get hard and busy? 

How do you stay compassionate or empathetic when there’s a conflict?

Becoming a good leader means you know how to lead yourself more than anybody else. It means to practice using tools at your disposal, and when you build the skill set, it then becomes who you are.

Heather Hansen is an award-winning trial attorney, a trained mediator, a Coach, a Keynote Speaker, and the best selling author of the book, The Elegant Warrior: How to Win Life’s Trials Without Losing Yourself. She is the host of The Elegant Warrior Podcast.

Her “5 Cs of Advocacy” have helped thousands of audience members use the tools of a trial lawyer to be better leaders, marketers, and salespeople.

In this episode, Heather talks about defining your elegance and how it affects you as a person and you as a leader.

What you learn from this episode:

• Learn how to influence, convince and persuade your inner narrative or inner jury to help you become a better leader and advocate
• Learn ways how you can use multiple perspectives to craft a better question, argument, and story so you can relate to your outer jury and win them over
• Find out how one of the 10 tools of an advocate that can bring you life-changing results for your clients, family, and team members

“You are all your own best advocates and you have everything inside, you have the passion and the experience. You have the ability to advocate for yourself and your team. And you just need the tools to make it happen.” 

- Heather Hansen

Heather’s Valuable Free Resource:

• Become a Powerful Advocate for Your Ideas: https://advocatetowin.com/

Topics Covered:

03:11 - Where does elegance fit for a leader?

04:28 - How do you define elegance?

04:55 - Heather’s definition of elegance

05:20 - What’s the biggest challenge you help leaders with? What are the symptoms?

06:52 - How does the inner jury work?

07:01 - Finding your own elegance

07:08 - What is Illeism and how does it affect your inner jury?

08:48 - How do you win over the inner jury?

09:26 - Example of Evidence and the role it plays in convincing and persuading your inner jury.

09:50 - What are the biggest mistakes your clients are making before they work with you?

11:10 - How multiple perspectives can help you influence, persuade, and convince.

12:11 - What is a Win-Lose Weird Proces?

12:56 - What actionable tip or piece of advice that you can share to help people become a better leader?

13:19 - How to practicing seeing things from other perspectives helps you become a more elegant leader.

18:52 - Five ways to get what you want and five tools to advocate for the things that you want, go to https://advocatetowin.com/

19:23 - Questions as one of the 10 tools of an advocate

Key Takeaways:

“You have to be willing to be wrong, or at least see where you could be wrong in order to win. I always say you have to be able to see where you could lose in order to win.” - Heather Hansen

“You have to be able to see outside of what you normally see in order to find other purposes for yourself.” - Heather Hansen

Resources Mentioned:

• 5 C’s of Advocacy - https://advocatetowin.com/speaking/
• Elegant Warrior: How to Win Life's Trials Without Losing Yourself - https://www.amazon.com/Elegant-Warrior-Trials-Without-Yourself/dp/1989025269/
• AdvocateToWin - https://advocatetowin.com/
• Elegant Warrior Podcast - https://heatherhansenpresents.com/heather-hansen-podcast-the-elegant-warrior/

Connect with Heather Hansen:

• Website - https://heatherhansenpresents.com/
• Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-hansen-84243512/
• Instagram and Twitter - @imheatherhansen
• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/heather.hansen.3720