Optimizing Your Own Results

Are you one of these leaders who, once you become someone who’s involved in a team where you need to take people with you on the journey, your results have sort of backed off a little bit, and you find you're not able to get everything done that you need to get done because everyone else wants a piece of you?

Well, I totally understand that. It was something that was a big challenge for me, and it's definitely something that I work with people all around the world.

So, stick with me because I will show you how you can shift away from that problem and get more done for yourself.

Hi, this is Grant Herbert, VUCA Leadership and Sustainable Performance Coach, and today I want to continue our conversation around all things leadership by helping you to optimize your results.

Over the last few weeks we've been unpacking what it is to be a leader and last week we agreed that everyone is a leader, even if you're just leading yourself. Leadership is not about having a title or a team, but it’s about being able to demonstrate and utilise the characteristics of leadership.

Leadership is different today from what it needed to be before, and today's leaders need to be taught to lead in today's world. We're in the age of AI, and we've come out of VUCA, then shifted into super VUCA, and then pandemics and all those things.

But, as I've said over the last few weeks, those same foundational principles of leadership apply no matter which age we're operating in.

There are those three Ps of leadership that I introduced you to and if you haven't heard that yet, go back and unpack those for yourself so that you can know which of those skills you need to work on.

Last week, we talked about Personal Leadership, which is all about leading YOU. Then, we will continue to talk about People Leadership in the coming weeks.

Today, we’re going to talk about Professional Leadership, which is the area where you get results from your efforts.

This is not about leveraging or getting others to do what you need them to do.

This is about being able to focus and maintain your performance level in a way that stops you from burning out.

There are different types of leaders, and I was one who in the early stages didn't support my team all that well because I had things to do myself. I had my targets that I had to achieve, and therefore, my focus was on that.

So, that's the first type of leader: The leader who just neglects the people they're working with and the people who are in their team, who they need to lead and who are relying on them to have everything they need to do what they need.

So, the first time a leader just closes himself off and — just head down, tail up — gets their stuff done. When that happens, you've got people who don't know what they're supposed to be doing. They get disillusioned, disenfranchised, disengaged, and they leave.

Attraction and retention are still two of the major issues that we are all working through right now. On the other end of the scale, you have the micromanager.

Micromanagers are people who just will not leave you alone. They’re constantly on your back, checking in at every step you take to make sure you're doing it like they want it done.

What we want to do as we continue into that people leadership area next week is make sure that we can optimise our results without neglecting those people and without needing to micromanage everything that's going on.

Let's jump into it and look at the three shifts that every leader needs to make in this professional leadership area.

The first area is in your PERFORMANCE.

This is about you — as a brain and body — being able to physically get stuff done, mentally stay focused, and do this in a way that is not detrimental to your health.

This is shifting from high performance to sustainable performance, and it starts with changing your mindset around hustle-and-grind and all these things that people talk about like working longer hours, getting more done and putting more effort in at the detriment of your self-care....

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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.