Working on your own ability to lead makes great business sense. Without developing yourself from time to time, those familiar tactics and strategies you used to succeed earlier in your career become liabilities in a top job. When you hit major transition points—job changes, promotions, failures, meltdowns, or simply surprisingly frank feedback—spend time and resources to work on developing yourself. Get a mentor or coach, enter a fitness / sport program, adjust your work / life balance, study, take on psychological / spiritual self-development—whatever feels intuitively best is the “right” thing to do. While the positive impact of self-development on your leadership isn’t on any balance sheet, the healthier, more insightful choices you make will go directly to your bottom line.
Self-coaching questions:
- What gaps in how I operate and live can I address to be a better leader?
- What feels intuitively “right” as an approach to take on these gaps and develop myself?
- A year from now, what would have to be true for me to know these efforts have positively impacted my life, career, and bottom line?
Note: Over 100 of these tips appear in my new book: Beyond Effective: Practices in Self-aware Leadership. Click on the image of the book at the top of this blog for more information.
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