Global Mindset I The Foundation for Diversity, Inclusion and Opportunity

Hey guys, thanks again for watching The Defender. In this episode, we're going to talk about one of the most important foundational aspects in leadership development, and that is building a team with a global mindset. If you like what you hear in this video, please make sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel, check out my website at gregorymwade.com and of course like, comment, and share below.

In my close to 30 years of experience, I've learned from some of the most amazing leaders of their generation. At the same time, I've also identified and learned what to implement from my perspective in terms of an organization that I want it to be a high performance team, but also known for its diversity in thinking, perspective, and approach. Effectively, a global mindset, and I was able to accomplish this in many different ways.

And at the same time I had this exposure and experience to teams that were known for their singularity in terms of their approach and thinking, as well as known for their hierarchies in terms of structure. And I can tell you what I was able to implement from a high-performance team perspective known for its global mindset, we are much more able to ensure faster decision making, we encourage creativity and innovation and prove that out in terms of the new products and services we are able to bring into the marketplace. We had a much stronger foundation for team performance. We were effectively supporting each other and our mutual success as opposed to just looking out for ourselves.

And ultimately the global mindset allowed us to be able to be open to the world in terms of new ideas, approaches, opportunities and perspectives. We brought that back into the organization, and it really helped us to drive our new product introduction process, our messaging into the markets, and recognize that you know what? Whether you're big company, mid-sized company or a small organization, having that global mindset better prepares you to be able to address the marketplace because guess what? The fact of the matter is now that buyers can be located anywhere in the world.

And I don't care if you're a small company in a domestic market. The fact of the matter is you're going to have more and more buyers who will be from outside of your local marketplace, and they're going to want to be able to access your products and services. So it's up to you to make sure that you build these teams out with a diverse set of backgrounds, perspectives and opinion, and then ensure that you're encouraging that global mindset.

Now don't just take this from me. The folks over at Everwise, which is an incredible mentoring platform, recently authored an amazing article that identified some of the characteristics that are critical to ensuring that you're building out a diversity in your organization, that you're open and you are inclusive, and that you are encouraging again, a different perspective and approach to how you go about doing your business.

And within that article they focused in on some of the most important aspects which were access to coaches who can guide you as a leader to how you go about establishing the right construct for your company, identifying mentors as well, so these would be mentors who would come outside of the organization in to you as a leader or as an aspiring leader, and give you advice and perspective on how to open up your mind to ensuring you have an organization with that diversity in thinking, perspective, and approach.

And then also providing, whether it's the benefits that go into ensuring that individuals have access to a realm and a wealth of different options within their benefits package that address their individual needs, not just the needs of the collective. And then finally training and education, and being able to access others who you might want to be able to talk to and gain some insights from in terms of how they're going about ensuring that their company, their teams are as diverse and open and inclusive as possible.

So I really encourage you to check out the Everwise article as well. I'll post it within the comments below so you can access it.

So again, thanks again for watching The Defender. If you like what you've heard, please don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel. Check out my website at gregorymwade.com and of course, like, comment and share below. I'll see you next time.