?? As a leader, you're allowed to NOT have all the answers.

While you may be in a decision-making leadership role, that doesn't necessarily mean that you must have all of the answers to make the best decisions, ALL the time. It's a challenge many professionals share that can have them go into freeze-mode, questioning their value and losing confidence. These are smart, educated professionals who confidently know their domain area and why they earned the roles they're in.

Unfortunately however, the inner crow will attempt to keep you small every time and is indiscriminate - it pays no attention to your title or compensation.

Even if you mustered up the courage to ask for others' input, the worry begins. You are now concerned that you may be perceived to be seeking validation and are ineffective to be in your role, let alone lead a team to success.

Fact: "Successful leaders have years of making split-second decisions when under intense pressure. However, their overall success rate from making those gut instinct decisions didn’t develop on day one. They have years of experience and any number of unpredictable failures under their belts. They can’t rationalize their perspective or explain it; they simply trust how they feel.” - Chapter 1, Own Your Authority. https://www.ownyourauthoritybook.com .

Aside from decision-making, your job is also to harness the collective intelligence of your team who want to feel valued and appreciated for their feedback. ??

When seeking input, ask questions about the potential impact and risks of the direction you're considering. Gaining this diverse perspective can unveil insights you might have missed because you're not as close to the ground and in the details and aware of the practical scenarios that arise. ??

Good leaders also allow others to “plus” their ideas when making decisions. In other words, they'll throw out a few thoughts and then ask their team for input to make them even better than theirs.

YOUR NO-ACTION ACTIONS

"It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable." - Molière

A pattern I’ve noticed over the last 20 years of coaching professionals is that as humans, we can easily disregard the fact that when we take no action, we are still taking action. We choose to do nothing. Yet isn’t that the language the people on your future leadership team want you to speak?

They want to hear you talk about the results and benefits, but they also expect you to voice the risks. What is going to happen if they don’t go in a particular direction? “Is there a real opportunity lost if we don’t spend X amount of budget dollars on this and use the money elsewhere?

"Your no-action actions are a very tangible thing to keep in mind when you are communicating in business, especially when your instinct is nudging you to move on. No action is action when you choose to stay silent and is as tangible as speaking up."

If knowledge is power, then implementation is influence. What are the no-action actions that are working against you in your career?" - Own Your Authority

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