Leaders and managers hold a unique position of authority in business. When they’re on the right track, they have the ability to make things significantly better. But when not, they can make things infinitely worse.
And fundamental to it all, is how we think. Because if we’re thinking the wrong things – or thinking about the right things in the wrong ways – our results can’t help but be substandard.
Take a close and honest look: As a leader of others, how many of these counterproductive thoughts are you – or the managers in your charge – guilty of?
- Are you thinking that your job is sometimes too difficult to manage?
- Are you thinking up excuses for avoiding difficult conversations?
- Are you thinking about how hard it is to work with others?
- Are you thinking you just don’t know what you’re supposed to be doing?
Is It Time? Are You Ready?
If any of the above resonated for you, then it’s time to change how you’re thinking so you can improve how you lead.
Because if you don’t, others in your organization will soon start modeling your counterproductive thinking – if they haven’t already – and the tasks that they once found ‘easy’ to accomplish will soon seem too difficult. And the assignments they used to think were ‘challenging, but doable’ will soon become near-impossible.
And that type of thinking can only lead to one thing for them, and you:
Failure.
Unmitigated, unavoidable failure.
But with the proper guidance and perspective – the proper coaching and mentoring – leaders can not only learn to avoid these pitfalls, they can start engaging with themselves, and those in their sphere-of-influence, in increasingly powerful and productive ways.
They key, of course, is recognizing that in order to change how you lead, you have to change how you think.
That’s where LeadershipTraction comes in.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist
Let’s Improve How You Think
When leaders shift HOW they think – about leadership, in general, and their specific roles and responsibilities, in particular – good things start to happen sooner in terms of what they think, feel, believe, and do.
In other words, when changing how you think, changes how you lead:
- “I can’t,” becomes “How can I?”
- “I don’t know how,” becomes “Let’s figure this out!”
- “It’s too hard,” becomes “I’m ready for this particular challenge!”
- “I’m overwhelmed,” becomes “I’m confident I can weather the storm!”
- “I’m spinning my wheels,” becomes “How best to hit this thing ‘head-on’?”
- “I’m not good enough,” becomes “I refuse to let this be a referendum on my self-worth!”
Let’s Improve How You Lead
The whole point of any leadership or management development initiative is for leaders to learn how to think more clearly, collaborate more freely, take full responsibility for all of their decisions, and create a more positive and lasting business impact – more quickly and easily than they might, otherwise.
Are you ready to have a more POWERFUL INFLUENCE and create a more POSITIVE IMPACT to better MOTIVATE, IMPRESS, and INSPIRE those you work with and for?
“If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools.”
Paul Arden, Advertising Creative and Writer
Who Challenges Your Thinking?
Who do you currently talk with about your fears, uncertainties, and doubts? Who do you currently rely on to constructively brainstorm with you about what REALLY matters?
Who currently provides you a safe space to have those private conversations, giving you their complete and undivided attention?
- Your boss?
- Not that s/he has the time or inclination, right?!
- Your favorite direct reports?
- You already know you really shouldn’t be sharing this kind of privileged and private information with them, yes?!
- Your peers?
- Surely fine people, but how much more insight or perspective are they likely to have than you?
- Your spouse or significant other?
- Likely Number One on your ‘go-to’ list, but how exhausting (not to mention unsettling) it must be to hear you fret so, night after night.
- Your friends and family?
- Or do they always seem to shift the conversation back to them and THEIR issues?!
Of course you can keep doing what most people do – continue to keep it all bottled up inside – but…
- How well is that really working for you?
- And what if REAL help was an ACTUAL option?
Who Do You Have THAT Conversation With?
Working with a professional coach – particularly a fully-trained, experienced, and MCC-master-certified coach like Barry Zweibel – is all about helping you THINK, FEEL, and LEAD with greater CONFIDENCE, CLARITY, and EASE.
Coaching conversations are specifically designed to help you separate the signal from the noise and get clear from your muddled thoughts so you can carve out and clarify what’s most crucial for ensuring your goals and objectives can be adequately met, moving forward.
Coaching conversations provide a confidential, candid, and surprisingly-engaging exploration of what you need to get back to your ‘better’ self and enjoy consistently greater confidence, clarity, perspective, and ease.
All tolled, it makes striving for, and achieving, what you need and want, imminently more doable.
So what do you think? Is it time? Are you ready?
It starts as easily as arranging a simple, preliminary conversation.
“Improving How You Think About Leadership REALLY DOES Improve How You Lead!”
Barry Zweibel, MBA, Master Certified Coach and Mentor, Leadership Development Specialist | LeadershipTraction
Personalized Leadership Coaching and Mentoring with Barry Zweibel
But does it work? Does engaging with a trusted coach and mentor like Barry Zweibel actually have the impact intended?
During the last twenty years, Barry Zweibel has become a consistently reliable resource for organizations, leaders, leaders of leaders, and HR/OD professionals to engage with, stay with, and reengage with, over time.
Why? Because of one simple, irrevocable truth:
Barry engages leaders in deeply-meaningful, personally-relevant, and fully-respectful conversations about how they think – and how best to span the gap between the outcomes they WANT and the outcomes likely to result if they don’t change their thinking.
Just read some of LeadershipTraction’s client endorsements and testimonials.
Individual results, of course, may vary, but feel free to review some key ‘flash stats’ – irrefutable evidence of value – from those having made the decision to engage.
Yes, It’s Time and YES, You’re Ready!
Meaningfully addressing your leadership development needs – or those of others in your organization – is an INTENTIONAL activity that can start as easily as a simple, no-strings-attached, preliminary conversation with Master Certified Coach (MCC) Barry Zweibel.
Even if he’s not a good fit for you or your organization, he can likely help you better clarify and articulate your needs and help you build some immediate… leadership traction!
Or you can let your busyness – and the very concerns that brought you here in the first place – sidetrack you (yet, again) as they’ve done surely numerous times before.
“Yes, It’s Time, and YES, I’m Ready!”
YOU, because that’s why you’re here!