Rise Up For You - Personal Leadership First, with Nada Nasserdeen

Superb technical skills, alone, are inadequate to face
challenges in the workplace. Soft skills are what
drives organizational growth.  


Soft skills are the emotional and social
intelligence skills. These are the skills that
enable leaders to show up as their best selves,
and enable others to rise to their best selves.  


Nada Nasserdeen is the founder and CEO of Rise Up For
You. She is a Leadership and Career Confidence Coach, No.1
Bestselling Author, and TEDx Motivational Speaker.  


With over 10 years of experience as a college professor and
former top executive for an education corporation, Nada
understands the importance of using education, empowerment, and
leadership together as she works with her clients and speaks to
audiences worldwide. She has toured the world as a singer, has a
Master’s degree in Administrative Leadership, and has coached and
mentored close to 50,000 individuals around the world on
self-empowerment, career strategy, and soft skills. 


In this episode, Nada doubles down on the power
of servant leadership, leadership that sets
aside ego, one that allows looking at
the whole picture of the company. 


What you will learn from this episode: 


Learn how to foster a mind that
identifies
the specific challenge then finds solutions  

The top two strategies to uncover a
leader’s blind spot  

How to see the big picture for your team and the
organization’s growth  



“If you're allowing your insecurities to prevent you from now
having that big picture, then we're in trouble. We're not
practicing leadership, right? What we're practicing is the
opposite of that. It's service for ourselves, right? It's selfish
leadership. And that's not what we want.”  


- Nada Nasserdeen 


Topics Covered:


01:55 - What leader’s challenge does she focus on specializing
and dealing with? 


02:45 - The whole gamut of soft skills and people challenges she
helps with  


04:23 - What does it look like when leaders find for
answers outside of themselves? 


05:35 - How to help leaders realize that which they are not aware
of and no knowledge about in terms of their own
shortcomings? 


07:28 - How to find a leader’s Personal Board of Directors and
the important roles they play 


10:18 - Recalling the time she uses the same strategy, surveying
herself and how she found out her blind spots 


11:38 - The words they used to describe her in the survey 


12:47 - The challenges and benefits of service leadership 


13:56 - The positive outcome of those anonymous surveys she did
on herself  


15:26 - The challenge that we see today in the soft skills of our
leaders 


16:16 - How to exercise the soft skill muscle when you hear
negative feedback 


19:21 - The emotional intelligence kit - 18 competencies under
it 


20:42 - Why do soft skills matter? 


24:17 - An inspiring thought from Nada 


Key Takeaways:


“The top challenge that I deal with leaders is people problems,
people challenges, challenges that are happening in the workspace
which all comes down to human behaviors. So how we communicate
with one another, how we show up, how we respond to one another,
and inversely, how it affects our work in the
workspace.”  


Resources:


Download your FREE Emotional Intelligence Toolkit and
Mini-Course now. Click
here: https://mailchi.mp/riseupforyou/eitoolkit 



Connect with Nada Nasserdeen:


Website: https://www.nadalena.com/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadalena/ 

Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/nada.nasserdeen 


Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nadalena_rise/