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