What Do YOU Hide As Leader?

Never has authentic leadership been more important!

The issues are complex. Change occurs faster than ever. Valuable information is trapped in difficult to access pockets. Your employees, and many stakeholders, require clarity and courage from YOU to give their very best. To TRUST again!

So what do you know about yourself that you withhold from many if not all. And why?

Financial imbalance? Health risks? Addictions? Unfaithfulness? Fear?

In guiding exceptional Leaders at fullXpression, we leverage the Johari Window (amongst many tools) to help women and men put light on the often unspoken, well concealed "Hidden Area" that few professionals zero in on. We think the "Blind Area" is over-weighted in most instances of growth and analysis because deeper, richer Character, Value and Trauma elements often reside in the very space where the Leader has "chosen" to deceive others. We know many leaders who behave this way, right?

There is something calculated, deliberate and almost Machiavellian in a Leader's decision to be known for more that she or he is, or for something different than they know themselves to be. Positioning themselves to be smarter? Richer? More empathic than is true?

Conversely, reflect on your ability/willingness to Trust a colleague or manager or Board Member or CEO who shares delicate personal facts you otherwise could not have known.

Next time you recruit a CEO or President to scale your valuable start-up investment or PE venture, consider (and explore) 2 potent questions:

1. what does this person NOT know about themselves; AND
2. what does this person KNOW about themselves that they are deliberately holding back.

I may forgive the first, in some cases. The second: unpardonable if concealment is strategic. You could be headed for a disaster if you do not get to the bottom of it.

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Luis Solis, a latino Forrest Gump, guides important Businesses and exceptional Leaders on a path of Evolution to their innate greatness (www.i-alchemists.com). He openly shares and discusses Hidden Areas with his sons, friends, clients and family.