Creating Confident Leaders - Trying New Things
It’s a difficult time right now, all the uncertainty around, the division and the emotional and mental stress that seems to be in the very air. Its at times like these that it can be very tempting just to hunker down and stick with what you know. Play it safe, be cautious, slow down, circle the wagons and try to protect yourself. I’m sure you know that feeling, I certainly do and I am seeing it with the leaders I work with as well.
However, and paradoxically, these are exactly the kind of times that we need to stay creative and have the courage to try new things, because playing safe will not help us. Its at times like this we have the most need of creative and resourceful leadership, leaders who can navigate around the uncertainty, stay strategic and brave and develop new thinking which can help us to adapt to the turbulence we have around us.
In order to do this we have to push past feelings which are born of FEAR and remember the words of President Franklin D Roosevelt “The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Fear Itself.”
So, no matter how tempting it is to “stay safe and stick with what you know”, I want to encourage you to use your leadership creativity now to both generate new ideas yourself and involve and encourage your people to do the same. Then try them out!
Try a creativity session at your next away day or team meeting and make it opportunity focused. One exercise you could try is to ask one or all of these questions:-
What are the opportunities being created for us right now?
What may we need to change to maximise our opportunities?
What’s are our greatest strengths and how will these help us to meet changing conditions?
What do we need to learn in order to change and maximise our opportunities?
What new idea can we implement right now in order to move us forward?
Note, these are all opportunity focused and positively worded. The last one is particularly important. We push through fear by action and reframing.
Go ahead – try something new this week😃
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Lois
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Lois Burton
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Hello I’m Lois and welcome to my blog. I ‘m a believer in potential, an international leadership coach, published author, speaker and coach trainer. I am committed to helping brilliant leaders to greatness and creating the next generation of extraordinary leadership coaches. I work with my clients to inspire and help them create the lives, careers and businesses they truly want. I’ve already helped tons of people to make massive positive changes in their leadership and their lives and I want to do more of it! Here is where I will be sharing my thoughts, ideas and all manner of stuff to get you moving, using your amazing potential and creating miracles in your own life and work. I hope we laugh here, I hope we cry, I hope we dream big, shout and punch the air but above all I hope we think together and help each other into the actions big and small that make the miracles not just possible but inevitable. Lois Burton is an international executive leadership coach and senior team coach who has been working in the field of leadership development for over 20 years. She is passionate about helping leaders become the best they can be and developing future leaders and leadership teams. The other side of her work is training and developing the new generation of leadership coaches and helping raise standards in the coaching and team coaching world. She is also an author and speaker on leadership, success strategies and the value of great coaching.
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