Are You a Manager of People, a Great Leader, or a High Impact Leader?

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“Your capacity to grow determines your capacity to lead.” ~ Mark Miller

How high will you climb?

Are you willing to develop yourself with the intention of developing others?

Managers of People

Managers of people are insecure and never develop their team members beyond what's required for them to do their job.

They feel threatened by anyone and everyone for various reasons.

Their goal is to make sure everyone stays in their place, doesn’t threaten them, and learns to do their job. When they must fill a position, their biggest objective is to find someone that will stay in the position and not move upward or onward.

Great Leaders

Great leaders are very secure but tend to focus primarily on competency development and seldom, if ever, focus on character development.

Their focus is on ensuring their teams consistently produce great results. It's about the work. It's about the job. It's about the metrics.

Great leaders treat their teams with respect, build great relationships, value them, and help them get great results, but they seldom intentionally do more than is required to develop their team.

These leaders are not bad people. They're great people. However, they could absolutely be better leaders.

But, they're unwilling to pay the additional price of developing themselves beyond what is required to do their job well. I’ve met many great leaders who are content with who they are, what they’re doing, and the results they're getting.

They are not growth-oriented. They are goal-oriented.

And unfortunately, they have reached their goal. It may be a certain salary or a certain position. Whatever it is, they no longer have a desire to grow. They are content to simply coast.

Some are team leaders. Some are supervisors. Some are managers. Some are directors. Some are vice-presidents. Some are presidents. Some are CEOs. Some are business owners.

They are everywhere.

Our world would be better if they would step up, but they don’t have any desire to step up. They’re content coasting to the finish line.

But, what are they leaving on the table?

Are you one of them?

Great leaders think success is the ultimate goal. When they achieve success, they begin to coast. Success is about YOU. It’s about YOU reaching the top of the mountain.

You can become a great, successful leader by continually developing yourself at work.

Are you going to settle for success?

“If you work hard on your job you can make a living, but if you work hard on yourself you can make a fortune.” ~ Jim Rohn

Will you choose significance?

There’s something beyond success. It’s what you can only find if you choose to go back down the mountain and help others climb.

I’m no longer talking about success. I'm talking about significance.

Significance is about YOU intentionally helping others become successful knowing that some of them will not coast. They will not settle. Some will choose a life of significance and continue the cycle of helping others climb the mountain of success. ?

Position and title don’t have anything to do with what I’m asking you to consider.

At this point, I want to know if you’re one of those special leaders.

I want to know if you have the desire to grow beyond what is required of you to become successful.

High Impact Leaders

For high impact leaders, success is truly the starting point.

For all other leaders, success is the stopping point.

If you want to become a high impact leader, you must go back down and help others climb their way to the top effectively and efficiently.

Will YOU choose to become a high impact leader ?

To truly become an exceptional high impact leader, you must choose to work on developing yourself not only when you're at work, but also when you’re not at work.

Very few leaders are willing to make this kind of sacrifice for themselves or others. For these leaders, significance will remain out of reach.

A bit about my story...

Until I left the corporate world in 2008, I was just another great leader making things happen. I didn’t know what I didn’t know about leadership. I didn't know what I was leaving on the table.

I got great results. The teams I led got great results. They liked me. I liked them.

That’s great leadership!

That's success!

I did an exceptional job at doing what was expected at work. However, when I got off work, I didn’t do anything to develop myself.

Why should I? I had it made!

I had nice cars and a nice home. I took nice vacations. I had a nice wife and lived a nice life. That was my goal at the time, and I had reached that goal. Success!

But, something happened the same year I left the corporate world. I was exposed to professional leadership content like I write about and speak about today.

As a result, I started to look in the mirror.

I started to become growth-oriented instead of goal-oriented.

I began to realize I could make a much bigger positive impact on the lives of others. I decided I wanted to become a high impact leader. I started chasing significance.

I hope you do too!

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Mack Story spent many years in the blue-collar workforce, starting his career working as a front line machine shop operator. Later in his career, he logged over 11,000 hours leading hundreds of leaders and their teams through process improvement, leadership development, organizational change, and cultural transformation, both as an employee and as an independent consultant.

Ria Story started her career working as a waitress while earning her GED and going to community college at night. She pursued a career in the healthcare industry, eventually earning her MBA and serving as the Director of Corporate Compliance for a hospital. She now has over 20 years of experience in leadership and management.