YOU Are A Leader

Are you one of those people who thinks everybody else is a leader except you?

This is a common misconception and I want to help you to understand that you don't need to have a team to be a leader.???

So, stick with me because this week we're going to shift some mindsets around that.??

Hi, this is Grant Herbert, VUCA Leadership and Sustainable Performance Coach, and today I want to continue this conversation around leadership by helping you to understand that YOU are a leader.??

Last week, we started this conversation looking at how leadership is changing in the current landscape. We're now in the age of AI.??

We’ve come out of that post-pandemic VUCA world. We used to be in an information world, and before that was the industrial age. But the thing is, it doesn't matter what area of leadership we are in; we still need to have these basic principles down pat, no matter which age we are working in.??

We talked about the fact that there are three faces of leadership.??

The first one is Personal Leadership which is all about YOU.??

The second is Professional Leadership which is all about you getting results.??

The third is about People Leadership which is about taking people on the journey with you.??

Within each of these areas, I talked about the nine crucial shifts every leader needs to make to thrive and survive and be who they need to be as a leader in today's world.??

So, what we're going to do this week is we're going to have a look at that first area of leadership, the one that's all about you, and that is PERSONAL LEADERSHIP.??

I joked last week (in fact, it's probably not a joke because everybody says the same thing) that the most interesting person to lead on a daily basis is yourself.??

The conversations you have and the strategies you need to employ to get you over the line are a little different to working with other people.??

So, let's have a look at why that is.??

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP is the foundation of all other areas of leadership. If you are not secure in yourself and have the confidence to lead yourself, then how do you expect to get results and lead others as well??

If you've done some conventional leadership training where it's all about others — getting people to do what you want them to do, delegation, communication and conflict, and all those things which are also extremely important — but you have not worked on the foundation of you, it's probably the reason why you're not getting the results even though you've done the training.??

What I want to do today is make sure that you understand what you need to work on in your Personal Leadership so that you can become who you need to be to do those things.??

Last week, I introduced you to the 3 areas of Personal leadership.??

The first is your Identity, which is all about how you feel about yourself.??

The next one is your Intelligence, which is about going beyond what you know and looking at things like your emotions and your social intelligence.??

The third area is Intention, which is about having a plan for your life and not being stuck in just the day-to-day of getting up, doing the same thing, and then going to bed.??

What I want to do today is unpack those three. In each of those areas (indeed in the whole 9), I take people on a journey from where they are now (which is not getting them the results they want) to where they need to be.??

In each of those areas, there's a transformational shift that first starts in the mindset and then in the behaviour.??

Let’s have a look at the first one, which is your IDENTITY...

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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.