Do you also have certain challenges in your leadership that keeps popping up, when you are under pressure? Even though you may have put focus on them for years. Maybe you sometimes go into pleasing people where you should have kept your grit? Or maybe you tend to go into a controlling mode where you should have trusted people more?
Well, you are not alone. It is completely natural. And the good news: you can do something about it!
Below, please find my best tips for change managers wanting to change. It includes 3 tips to grow as a leader of change - taking your team "from safe to great".
Each tip is elaborated in the video below.
Grow as a leader of change and take your team “from safe to great”
3 tips from "safe to great"
Strengthen your growth mindset
Reduce your "protective mindsets"
Know that your good intentions may not result in the impact you intended - and be curious about it
In the video I elaborate on each of the 3 tips.
Reflection
Think of a challenging situation that you handled well. What went before it - what were your (helpful) thoughts or how did you prepare?
When you slip into a “protective” mode for action - what were your (not so helpful) thoughts, concerns or worries?
You may not know this on the spot - but going forward I encourage you to reflect on these questions and get some learnings. Then you are ready to do a 360 assessment and make real change!
Reading
Skip Bowman has written this great and short article introducing his new thinking about Growth Mindset.
And his elaborate book Safe to Great - The New Psychology of Leadership about the whole approach and framework is definitely worth a read
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