Talent Magnet Institute Podcast

This week Mike talks with Alandes Powell, Vice President of Business Controls at Fifth Third Bank.  They discuss the key skills leaders need to manage people, and how to use these skills to transform business in the future.  Alandes is passionate about helping leaders understand that people from different parts of the business will have different perspectives.  She shares key ideas about:  How to ask the right questions to get the information you need to lead well (5:45) How to be okay with not having all the answers (8:10) Making mistakes and course-correcting as fast as possible (11:18) Alandes says that leaders must create an environment that encourages people to raise their hand when they see something that doesn’t fit the company’s core values.  This is true courage in leadership. “Leaders have to learn how to tell people what to do without telling them what to do, because we are all adults.  One way to do that is to be honest with people...about the decisions [you] are making and why [you] are ma