What Scares Me
Chris McCann
Senior Director of Sales West NAM and LATAM @ Contentstack | Inspiring Growth, Empowering Change | MACH Alliance Growth Council | Psychedelic Therapeutics & Integration Practitioner | Neurodiversity ERG Leader & Advocate
Fear. It’s one of the most potent tools for growth you can leverage. If you want your team to achieve extraordinary results, introduce them to the "What Scares Me" List.
Fear often masks desire. As a leader, your first job is to uncover your teams deepest fears.
We're not afraid of the thing itself. We're afraid of failing or looking bad. Your second job as a leader: help your team face their fears head-on.
Exercise for You and Your Team
Remember: You Can Do Scared
My personal mantra is simple: Do what excites you and scares you. Too much excitement, and you're ungrounded. Too much fear, and you’re paralyzed. But that fine line between fear and excitement? That’s where growth happens.
Challenge
This week, guide your clients to the edge of their comfort zones. Show them that beyond fear lies their next level of success.
Bonus Challenge
Do one thing that scares you this week. Share your experience with me.
Embrace fear. Transform it. Lead by example.
Marketing at Full Throttle Falato Leads
3 个月Chris, thanks for sharing!
Great advice! I'm going to write down a couple of my fears to visualize and embrace change....
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4 个月Love the actionable advice here! I've seen/heard a lot around change... or rather, our innate desire to avoid change lately - especially around management teams leading through change. I'm reading 'Look Again' by Tali Sharot and Cass Sunstein, which describes how we habituate to situations, making them seem less intense over time when exposed to them repeatedly: joy/sad/good/bad become "meh", etc. Our ability to habituate, or dial down the intensity of a situation dovetails nicely with fear as two sides of a coin that keep folks stuck in their ruts. I'm adding this to my toolkit when working with managers struggling to get their teams to thrive through change! Cheers!
Senior Director of Digital Operations
4 个月This is super timely as I’ve been thinking a lot about fear lately too. I love this thinking around it and will definitely be making “what scares me” lists with my team. Thank you for sharing ??