e060 – The Part-Time Jungle Podcast: Becoming a Great Leader with Nicole North

How do you become a great leader? Better yet, how do we help our kids grow into great leaders too? Being a leader is so much more than your personality type. It has to do with your qualities, values and characteristics. Joining me for this very last conversation on The Part-Time Jungle is Nicole North. Nicole is the President and Founder of Whiteboard Consulting and has been leading large-scale leadership training initiatives with Whiteboard since its inception. Nicole’s formal education includes an honors BA from the University of Toronto and an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University. She is also certified as a Coach and as a practitioner in Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessments and training, Method Time Motion studies, and Appreciative Inquiry. She is the creator, designer, and lead facilitator of The Limitless LeaderTM program that creates leaders and teams that feel limitless to create and innovate - paired with accountability and grace. Nicole has been designing and delivering online and in-person human skills content for the last 10 years and is a top-rated facilitator for her engagement and passionate approach to delivery.   Listen in as we talk about: * Asking for time and space. As moms, we often cater to everyone first except for ourselves. Nicole shares her best tips for staying healthy and present for her family. * How to be a limitless leader. Nicole has developed a methodology that encompasses the qualities of being a limitless leader that empowers their team. * What leaders need right now. How do you define a great leader? Nicole gives us insight into what makes a great leader, and what all leaders need right now. * Helping our kids become great leaders. For Nicole, it goes back to helping our kids learn how to speak clearly and kindly.   Connect with Nicole: * Instagram: @whiteboardconsult https://www.instagram.com/whiteboardconsult/ * Facebook: @WhiteboardCons https://www.facebook.com/WhiteboardCons * Website: https://www.whiteboardconsulting.ca * Podcast: At the Whiteboard https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/at-the-whiteboard/id1210237741   Connect with Tiana and The Part-Time Jungle Community: * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parttimejungle/ * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parttimejungle/ * Website: https://theparttimejungle.com   ASKING FOR TIME AND SPACE Do you ever take time out for yourself? Are you in tune with your desires, wants and needs as a person and as a mom? It’s no secret that we often cater to everyone first except for ourselves. Between busy kids, lives, jobs, activities, and more, it’s easy to put ourselves last on the ‘to do’ list/ Nicole shares her best tips for staying healthy and present for her family. This includes taking dedicated time on the weekend to relax, workout, and be present with herself. This helps her show up more fully as a mom, partner and leader. However, Nicole stresses that: “There is no perfect answer. Parenting doesn't have to be done exactly the way that they say in the books.” HOW TO BE A LIMITLESS LEADER “The foundational component of a limitless leader is one that communicates with clarity, kindness, curiosity, and grace and holds people accountable." When it comes to leadership,