Taking People on the Journey

Do you feel a little bit out of your depth sometimes when you need to lead others?

I know I certainly did, and I know a lot of people feel fantastic when they get “promoted” into a position of leadership because of the extra finance or significance it might bring, but at the end of the day I know there's also an internal voice going:

“Oh no, I don't even know how to look after myself, and now I need to take these other people under my wing as well.”

Every leader goes through this so, I want to make sure that this week I give you some things to think about, and then we'll continue to unpack them in the weeks to come, that will help you be a great leader of people.

Hi, this is Grant Herbert, VUCA Leadership and Sustainable Performance Coach, and today I want to continue this conversation around all things leadership by helping you know how to take people with you on the journey.

Over the last few weeks, we've been talking about these three areas of leadership:

Personal Leadership which is about leading YOU.

Professional Leadership is about YOU getting results through YOU.

Today, I want to continue this conversation by looking at what most people think leadership is, and that is Leading people.

Leadership is a set of internal characteristics of the leader used in different contexts: Leading ourselves, leading our processes, and leading people. You need different sets of mindsets and skills to go from leading yourself to taking these other people on the journey with you.

A lot of people lack these skills because they don't come in the technical training and development that they've done, and unfortunately, they don't get the training that they need.

This causes a lot of stress and conflict not only to the leaders themselves but to the people that they're leading, and the organisation suffers as well.

I believe that if you don't train people, you can't blame them, so as a leader if you're not getting this sort of development, put your hand up and say:

"Hey, I'm out of my depth. I don't understand how to work with these other people. They're all different to me. They do and think about things differently to me, and I'm not able to focus on my work…”

And that's what comes with learning to lead; you can read heaps of books about it, but on-the-job training is the only way to develop these skills.

Hopefully, today, I can give you some things to focus on— three areas that I will take you on as we continue into next year. However, these are things that you will need to develop and get the support, training, and coaching or whatever it is that you need to do to take you there.

My promise is that when you do this, you'll have the same experience as I did:

I went from being a leader who people wanted to kill to a leader who now enjoys taking people on the journey with them. People actually compliment me for how I work with them.

I'm not perfect, by the way, and that's never the goal.

So, if that's you, if you're a little bit stressed out by people and you're wondering when we can just go to the robots so that you can just plug in what you want them to do on a computer, then I'm here to help.

The 3 areas that we focus on in our people leadership is, firstly, RESILIENCE.

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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.