The concept of Human-Centric Leadership has been around for a while.

The turning point for people talking about it seems to be around the time the Covid Pandemic was kicking everyones ass for the second or third time with the various Lockdowns.

People started having to think about about more than what their day to day was. People started having to think about what their lives were going to amount to when we could go outside and hug each other again.

That crossed over into the workplace as we all started coming back in dribs and drabs. Be that from furlow, or back to see each other and catchup over coffee. We expected our senior leaders to be doing the right thing for us, to be making sure that we, as employees, were safe. Many of them did. Many of them didn’t.

So you had Quiet Quitting, Great Resignations, Middle fingers getting raised and every other possible combination of situation where people said “Enough is enough” towards awful leadership. I was one of those people for sure, having experienced the ‘best and brightests’ attitude towards me during a time of crisis? I wanted better.

I’m a Senior Leader in Data Engineering. I am a Leader of Leaders and I have been putting together a framework that shows exactly what a leader should be for those around us. Not just for a profit-driven incentive for doing business as we’re all used to, but to focus on those beneath and around us to really let them thrive and feel the best they can do in any organisation.

Human-Centric Leadership is a combination of behaviours, traits, understandings of ones-self and challenges against anything that goes against the framework. All the while allowing those around you to use feedback to drive improvements in the safety, security, workload and innovation of teams.

It is my firm belief that Leaders do not add revenue to a business themselves. They do so by creating a safe space for their teams to evolve, adapt and innovate where they’re free to do the right thing for the right reason at the right time. Anything else is moot and as a Leader, your team is your primary focus… nothing else.