How can you develop leadership skills while prioritizing well-being?

Strategically select one area to focus on and keep practicing. Then add another to keep streching our growth. . Instead of trying to do too much that it tip us over.

Coaching gives you a good insight about your own self and tap into your resources which can ultimately accelerate your progress in any of the areas that you are looking to develop. Coaching improves your own ability to make the choices, and move towards holistic development

In my experience authentic leaders or the ones focused on servant leadership do not talk about prioritizing well-being. They implement in their everyday practices holistic approach, i.e. work and life integration, not separation.

Developing leadership skills while prioritizing well-being involves a holistic approach that integrates self-awareness, empathy, and resilience. Begin by fostering a foundation of emotional intelligence, understanding your strengths and weaknesses. Cultivate empathy by actively listening and valuing diverse perspectives within your team. Delegate effectively to alleviate personal stress and empower others. View challenges as opportunities for learning and improvement. Establish clear boundaries to maintain a healthy work-life balance. Engage in self-reflection and seek feedback to refine leadership strategies. Finally, promote a positive and inclusive work environment, emphasizing the well-being of both yourself and your team for success!

Developing leadership skills while prioritizing well-being involves integrating practices that foster personal growth, resilience, and balance. Here are some steps to cyclically keep in consideration: 1. Self-awareness (strengths, weaknesses, values, triggers). 2. Set boundaries among your priorities. 3. Time management: the use of your time is your decision! 4. Delegate: focus on high-priority tasks while providing growth opportunities for others. 5. Continuous learning: stimulate your mind. 6. Communication: ask for feedback. 7. Stress management: relax and recharge. 8. Lead by example. 9. Seek support. 10. Reflect and adapt.

We all know why well-being is important for leaders. No one expects themselves or others to perform at their best when they are sick, stressed or burnt out. The real question we struggle with, is "Why do leaders often neglect their wellbeing?" They don't need convincing that it's important. They need support to prioritise their wellbeing. I find the myth of "I need to have it together" and "I shouldn't need to ask for help" and "I am responsible for everything" tends to drive leaders into un-health. They reach out for support when it is too late, and often pay the price. Instead, I'd ask: "What will help you as a leader step up, step out & reach out to a co-pilot? Someone to help you reclaim your Wellbeing today?"

To my mind, well-being is crucial for leaders. It encompasses physical, mental, and spiritual health at least. Leaders face unique challenges and stress (real or felt), often feeling isolated while steering their companies through tough times. To make effective decisions and inspire their teams and clients, leaders need to be in top-notch condition. Prioritizing well-being helps leaders sustain high performance and navigate challenges with ease. So, taking care of themselves isn't just a luxury—it's a necessity for success!

In the words of my grandfather, you can’t get blood from a turnip. If you’ve not taken care of your own well-being and running on fumes, short tempered and edgy, how can you possibly show up for your team. How do you help them be their best, if you’re not at your best? Even as an executive coach, I found having my own coach helped me perform at a higher level for my clients. What is that one thing you know you could do best if you had a good nights rest? A long weekend where you actually unplugged?

Well-being is not to be prioritised. It is part of our nature to be well physically , emotionally , mentally and spiritually . To lead requires a sense of BEING. To be totally aligned and integrated with one’s wellbeing. Bringing Stillness into one’s life. Aware of how one is feeling and thinking . Movement of thought and Attending with unwavering action to sustainable personal change. Lead with meaning and purpose by BEING WELL .

I am not sure one can truly be a leader if well-being for self and for others is not top of mind. It is incumbent on a leader to care for themselves so they are the best version of themself for those they lead. It is also incumbent on a leader to care for others so they can be the best version of themselves. In my book, true leadership is about caring. Caring for the success of those around them. Caring for the well-being, physically, emotionally and financially, of those around them. In doing so, it creates a healthy culture that generates excitement, desire and growth.

Hi! I've coached 100s of people and supervised the coaching of 1000's. The coach can have "well-being" as a track of the coaching. Here's what that looks like. We're finished with a coaching session, and I say: * "What will you do as a health action this week?" They know health action means one of: 1) sleep 2) exercise 3) food/water 4) meditation * "What will you do as a career action?" * "What will you do as a connection action?" These three for my clients - health, career, connect - are the three they focus on each week. We check in at the end for next week, and we review at the start of the session from the previous week. We measure what matters, to use a trite phrase. :)

As a Business Coach and SCORE mentor, coaching is a transformational experience. Everyone should have a coach (and your coach should also have a coach!) Coaches facilitate self-reflection and introspection, helping others gain clarity on their values, priorities, and personal boundaries. This self-awareness forms the foundation for making intentional choices that prioritize well-being.

Coaching provides the much needed perspective and powerful insight required to set intentional goals. Most Leaders get that the coming years are going to be full of uncertainty. Where they will face challenges with complexity and have to perform under pressure while taking care of those in their charge. The "put your oxygen mask on first" metaphor highlights the importance of prioritizing self-care for leaders. This allows: Sustainable Leadership: be better equipped to sustain your leadership impact and success (however that is defined). Capacity to Help Others: Avoid burnout, reduced effectiveness, and inability to guide your team. Setting Right Tone: send a message that well-being should be a priority for your people.

In coaching, integrating well-being into leadership development goes beyond a checkbox activity. Together with goal tracking, I guide clients in crafting a personalized self-care plan, establishing commitments and conditions for their sense of safety – especially crucial when making bold career moves. This holistic approach aligns professional aspirations with well-being practices. The accountability framework becomes a compass, fostering resilience and self-compassion for effective leadership. We continually assess and upgrade practices, shedding what no longer serves and embracing what nurtures growth. It's a journey of learning, embracing mistakes with grace, and, most importantly, inspiring others to do the same.

The idea of "well-being" can be a vague concept that means very different things to different people. As an executive coach, I would help the leader understand what "well-being" looks like to them at this point in time in their career and personal life. Once there is a common understanding, an I would help the leader develop strategies for implementing well-being techniques that work specifically for them in their current environment. As life changes, I would help the leader adjust strategies as needed.

Everything is connected. In my book "How to Develop the Authentic Leader in You", I talk about the integration of the 7 dimensions of leadership intelligence: physical, emotional, pragmatic, communication, heart, neuroscience, and consciousness intelligence. Each leader's pathway to wellbeing differs; for some, it's through sports, exercise, or nutrition, while for others, it may be about allowing oneself to feel emotions, integrate the intelligence of the heart, or doing essence / soul work by delving into consciousnes and explore "Who am I". It's all interconnected, forming the essence of effective leadership.

Para desenvolver habilidades de lideran?a e priorizar o bem-estar, siga estas dicas: 1. Conhe?a a si mesmo e suas necessidades. 2. Estabele?a metas realistas para o desenvolvimento de habilidades e para o bem-estar. 3. Aproveite recursos flexíveis de aprendizado e desenvolvimento. 4. Cuide de sua saúde física, mental e emocional. 5. Busque orienta??o e apoio de um coach ou mentor. Equilibrar o crescimento profissional com o cuidado pessoal é essencial para se tornar um líder eficaz e sustentável.

Leadership and well-being are not contradictory to each other but complementary. In Restored Leadership, we advocate Giving Feedback with respect and honesty, Receiving Feedback with openness and courage, Taking Ownership of problems and the situation with responsibility, and Celebrating Wins with genuineness. Restored Leadership can be practiced at every team encounter.

In my experience leadership development and personal development go hand in hand. An expression of personal development is illustrated by the leaders sense of wellbeing. They are profoundly connected. Physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing are all building blocks of impactful leadership.

In response to the question, 'How can you develop leadership skills while prioritizing well-being?' - the answer lies in prioritizing well-being first, which serves as the foundation for ANY development. I vividly recall the transformative experience of prioritizing sleep for the first time. Participating in a program, I committed to getting the necessary hours of rest each night. The following day, I woke up rejuvenated, feeling like a new person. The level of productivity and presence I experienced was astonishing. Prioritizing well-being sets a powerful example for employees and those you care about. A 2 minute power break can significantly enhance effectiveness in the next 58 minutes. Try it today - set or ask for 2 minutes break!

The biggest issue my clients come to me with is: trust and vulnerability. They often had terrible coaching experiences and feel like they need to perform again in the actual save coaching space… where you want to be able to open up and find solutions to your real problems. When you search for a coach, make sure that he/she actually cares and went through similar experiences. That means they have the capacity to truly help you because it’s wisdom and tools they share. And not plain knowledge.

The first thing that I tell my clients when we have our discovery meeting - do you like to talk to me, do you feel eager to meet with me, are you comfortable enough to share your bold ideas? What becomes possible in this coaching space knowing that it is a free space of judgment and labeling? If they answer yes to the questions and they feel that they like to explore the impossible - we could work together!So like in love life or in a friendship?- you need chemistry!?You need to like the person and trust their skills in order to have a growth focus while you work together!

Look beyond your known world for a coach that will challenge your instincts, habits, values, language and behaviours. Positive connections are critical but so too is being open to a new view of yourself and the world you create around you.

Encontrar um coach executivo n?o é uma decis?o a ser tomada de forma leviana. Como coach executiva, e já com muitas horas de “voo” deixo aqui aqui algumas considera??es inportantes, para escolher um coach: 1. O seu coach deve identificar-se com os seus valores e vis?o do mundo. 2. O coach deve ser capaz de adaptar as suas técnicas e metodologias às suas necessidades específicas, e oferecer um plano de desenvolvimento que seja verdadeiramente personalizado. 3. Procure evidências do sucesso anterior do coach que está a pensar escolher para o acompanhar. Lembre-se que o seu coach n?o será só um guia, mas um parceiro de confian?a na sua jornada de desenvolvimento.

Firstly, check their profile, posts etc. Secondly, check their posts and other things you could find. You resonate? If yes, go further, maybe a discovery call, maybe ask other people. Do not waste your time with truing 10 meetings, you will know from Day 1.

IMO, ability to prioritize wellbeing is an important leadership skill that all leaders need to learn to develop. I’ve been in few conversations/panels and some leaders disagreed with that viewpoint and attributed their orgs focus on wellbeing to the increased number of burnouts and higher employee turnovers. Perhaps researching growth mindset and stress-is-enhancing vs. stress-is-debilitating mindsets can help some better understand the importance of wellbeing. Imagine you have a leader with 100 people in their org. If they have one bad day a week and that gets trickled down to half of their org, think of the amount of avoidable toil that gets created and gets in the way of delivering results every single week.

One key expectation from leaders is that they prioritize the things that allow financial and human capital growth. When leaders are helped to realise how their own well-being amplifies their impact and helps them fulfill their purpose/ambition in a quicker or better way, they take to it like a fish to water. Once they realise it, they encourage others to do so. Thus they lead others better.

Great article highlighting the importance of leadership development and well-being! Prioritizing self-care is crucial for sustainable success. I particularly resonated with the emphasis on setting intentional goals. Keep up the insightful content!

No coaching… “Reading” is what I advocate for development with well being. Invest in developing a cosy beautiful study for yourself with some good books. Spend a good quality time with yourself daily there. Books are going to give u skills and spending time with yourself will give you mental well being

A great executive coaching assignment should be time bound and sustainable, with a legacy in the way you work. If you're addicted to your coach, they may be addicted to you too - and that's not an ideal or recommended way to meet! Endings might need attention.