A Leader For Long? What Else Can You Do?

As leadership challenges increase, so do leaders need to keep themselves current. Looking back on my journey as a leader, being the adventurer that I am, I yearned for new horizons.
 
What else was there to learn? Plenty! Leading teams was a new skill I had not been exposed to. My KPI’s were different. I had to learn how to engage my team to the point of making them high performers.
 
As a Neuro Linguistic Programming Trainer I had tools in the palm of my hand. Setting the direction was fundamental to pulling the team to a common starting point.
 
With frequent weekly meet ups it was fascinating to see how the team were mobilizing towards the strategic direction set which augured well for operational alignment.  
 
Every team member was different. Some needed mentoring of how to do the job. Others felt they preferred to be coached towards their goals. This team development morphed from “very difficult” to “more do-able”
 
Ultimately people wanted to be helped along the way to the point where they reached conscious competence. As they moved from conscious to unconscious competence, so did their level of motivation.
 
It was then that I could delegate and set them free. Like an eagle soaring, it was fulfilling for me to experience their performance improvement. This is how I saw myself as a successful leader.
 
When my people were able to traverse new boundaries and thrive. I wasn’t needed anymore. It was time to move to the next level of leadership.