More Being, Less Doing Gave Alex a Better Business

When it comes to leadership, you can’t do everything, nor should you be expected to.

The very definition of leading a team is to create more output than you could alone, and therefore why would we expect to do it all ourselves?

And even more so, why should we know everything either?

It is very easy to take too much on, to want control, or to feel like you are the only one who will get it done properly.

But there is a lot more to being a leader than that.

That is the reason why I called my company ‘Think Be Do Leadership’. It is the process which a leader has to go through to be successful. You can’t Do differently unless you Think differently and Behave differently.?

The way you show up in your business will have a massive impact on the amount and quality of the work you personally are doing, and your team are doing. But your mind is what drives the Behaviour, so we have to start there.?

The more thinking and being you engage in the less you will have to do, and to me that sounds pretty ideal, right?

And it’s all very well me saying that but what does it mean? Well, let’s take a look…

Thinking

It is easy, especially if you have moved up into a leadership role, to feel a bit out of your depth or uncomfortable in the new world of leadership.?This is why mindset is so important. You have to think like a leader to be one.

You are in the position because you are good at what you do and have all the relevant knowledge to pass on to your team. But sadly, knowledge alone isn’t enough, now you must begin to think about how to pass that on to others and to inspire them to want to do great things.

But there are three reasons why people don’t perform.?

Can’t do, won’t do and don’t do.

How you think, whether it is like a leader or still in the realms of the practitioner will influence their ability to do or their desire to do the work.

When you realise that your job is to create leverage through your input, you are able to throw away the need, the guilt and the confusion over your role and start to let go of the chains that stop you being the leader you need to be.

If you can open yourself up to the thought process of a leader you can avoid those imposter syndrome feelings and start to operate to the best of your abilities.

You will breed better, more authentic communication and confidence, allowing clearer inspiration, instruction, and guidance to your team and those around you.

Once you begin thinking like this, you will bring great minds together and create the team desire towards the same goal.

Being

Once you are thinking like a leader you have to put that thought process into action. It is one thing knowing what you should do but another thing entirely actually doing it.

Being a leader is facilitating not only yourself and your business to run smoothly, but also all those in your team. You are the engineer tasked with getting all the cogs whirring in your company machine.

And how you show up behaviourally is a massive part of building trust and collaboration.?

If your team experience you in a beneficial way, then they will WANT to do a good job, feel more confident and are likely to join in and make things happen.??Get this wrong and you may have a team who believe it WHAT you are trying to achieve but who don’t want to do it for YOU.

For example, a key part of this that I touched on already is communication, and what goes hand in hand with this? Delegation!

You can’t be everywhere at once doing everything. So, to be the leader you have to allow others to take some control and do their job. You have to be able to coach and teach rather than do every little thing yourself.

This is not just about telling people what to do, it is about the influence you have based on how you show up.?People have to want to step up and you have the job of creating an environment that makes it happen.

Doing

So, I’m not saying you should sit back and order people around without doing anything. That is a guaranteed way to demotivate your team.

What I am trying to get across, however, is that as leaders we need to realise it is not about showing everyone your superhuman capabilities. It is about bringing out your team’s superhuman-ness!

Then you can multiply your output without working harder.?You are leveraging the skills of your team. And they will feel more accomplished and confident that you coached them to do that.

And then of course there is burnout…

I have spoken about the problems with doing too much before, namely burnout and having no time for anything, or anyone else.

You need to prioritise you at some point, even as a leader and that is why this balance is so important.

I opened this by saying “why thinking and being is more important than doing” at ultimately that is it, it is about the balance of roles and output as a team. Everyone has a hand in making things happen and should be valued for that role.?

Yours is to enable others, not to do it all.

Until they inevitably invent cloning, you can’t be in two or more places at once, and whilst I’m sure that technology is coming, it is not here quite yet so we are going to have to just learn what we can do to make leadership as efficient as possible!

And the way you think and how you behave will be the keys to that. ?

You won’t have actual clones, but you will have confident capable people who know how you think, what your plans and dreams are, how they can participate in making it work and know how to just get on and do it without you even being there.

And as we come to the end of the year, I’m sure we all feel like we have earned a bit of a break, and we should be able to have one without feeling like everything is going to fall apart if we do!

So, let’s take this time to think and be a little more so we can do a little less in 2022!

And if you are thinking “Well Julie, that sounds great, but I am not sure how to get there” then not a problem, let’s have a chat and see why that may be. Email me at [email protected] and we can have a think together!

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