Develop Your Professional Leadership Skills

Do you find it challenging to get enough done, and you are constantly exhausted when you get home from work?

I totally understand that, and it's happening to a lot of people right now.

Burnout is totally going up; people are feeling stressed and like they're not sure if they're going to be able to get it all done.

Well, if that's you, that's okay. Stick with me because this week, I want to help you do things differently.

Hi, this is Grant Herbert, VUCA Leadership and Sustainable Performance Coach, and today I want to continue our conversation around these three Ps of leadership by helping you develop your professional leadership skills.

If you've been following me along on this journey, you know that I talk about these 9 crucial shifts that everyone needs to make so that they can lead themselves and others well in this volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world that we're working in now.

Everything is so fast-paced and changes so quickly and often, if we just do what we've always done, we won't get the results we need.

We’ve talked about the foundational competencies of all leadership, which is Personal Leadership, and that is leading yourself well.

Today, I want to shift gears and start talking about those skills that you and I need to lead ourselves well and get the results we need from our own efforts.

A lot of people think leadership is all about getting other people to do what they need them to do, and that is part of it (we will talk about that as we go further into the work we're doing together). However, we need to maintain a balance between getting that done and getting our stuff done as well, and there are three key areas we're going to focus on.

What I want to do today is just introduce you to those areas. Then, in the coming weeks, we’ll go deeper into those areas and look at the specific transformational shifts you and I need to make and how to make them.

So, let's talk about these three shifts in the Professional Leadership area. As I said, it's all about YOU getting results through YOUR efforts.

The first area that we're going to work on is your PERFORMANCE.

This is an area where people are constantly striving for high performance.

Although high performance is good, it's not over the long term.

I know all too well that the repercussions that come from just going in that hustle and grind high performance, and working for long hours for a long time can really damage your health.

So, this is all about shifting from that high-performance mentality, and high-performance alone, to sustainable performance, which is about doing things in a way that means you'll be able to do them for longer.

I don’t know about you, but during my corporate career, I was exhausted, and sometimes that was at 9:30 in the morning. And yes, a lot of that has to do with the emotions and the mindset and what was going on in my personal leadership areas of identity and emotional intelligence.

Yet, as well as that, some of it was because of the strategies I used to get my work done.

So, the first area we're going to focus on in the coming weeks is your performance so that you can get as much as you need done and get the results you want without burning out.

The second area that we're going to work on is your POSITIONING...

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Grant Herbert (aka The People Builder) describes himself as an ordinary guy, with an outstanding wife and 5 amazing kids, who has a passion to help people escape the performance trap and regain their authenticity in every area of life. He is a VUCA Leadership Mentor, Sustainable Performance Coach, Master Coach Trainer in Social and Emotional Intelligence,?and the founder of People Builders.

Visit www.grantherbert.com to find out how you can connect.