Every year, my team and I attend the leadership summit and it is always refreshing, challenging and recharging for me. Easily the best leadership material in a conference that is out there. I try to share some of the highlights I took from each session.

Here are some thoughts from the session with Todd Henry on Leading Creative Teams:

• We should aim to be prolific, brilliant and healthy.
• Creative people need a challenge.
• Creative people need stability.
• A leader needs to speak courage into the people who follow them.
• If you have low stability and low challenge, your team is lost.
• A leader needs to know how much stability and challenge each person on their team needs.
• Never assume that your people are with you.
• Trust is the currency of creative teams.
• It is the little things we do that cause us to lose trust in the big moments.
• Leaders need to declare undeclarables. 
• We breach trust by pretending to be a superhero.
• We fail as leaders when we push people away.
• Insecurity is at the center of so many poor leadership decisions and actions.
• The place of your insecurity is the place you have the potential to do the most damage to the people around you.
• Your job as a leader isn’t to do the work or control the work, but to get the work done.
• We have to transition from leading by control to leading by influence.
• Leaders, you have to take care of #1.
• If you are not inspired, you cannot inspire.
• If you don’t take time to fill your well, you won’t have any overflow for your team.
• You owe it to your team to know what prolific, brilliant and healthy look like.