TOOLS FOR ASPIRING LEADERS
Learning to lead is a practice, not an event! Trying to move up? Practices in the book to help Aspiring Leaders include:
- Be Clear about Your Level of Influence
- Notice Your Own Resistance to Change
- Keep the Faith – Things Will Change
- Choose Your Pain
- Expand Your Comfort Zone Through Intentional Experiences
- Take charge of your own learning
- Do Battle with Your Fears
- Listen More/Talk Less
- Influencing Velocity and Gravity
- Meet Your New Life Coach
- Challenge Your Schemata
- Know the Difference Between Complexity & Complicated, and Act Accordingly
- Notice the Side Effects Created by Working Towards Your Goals
- Make a Shift from Knowing to Understanding
- And many more...
Tools for Mentors and Coaches
Like it or not, you can't outsource developing your replacement. Practices in the book for Coaches and Mentors include:
- Not All Change is Better In Small Doses
- Build on People’s Strengths
- Become Attached to the Process, Not the Outcome
- Continually Clarify the Purpose of Your Business (to everyone)
- Learn to Generalize Experiences to Build Confidence
- Manage Creative Tension – Don’t Eliminate It
- Resist the Urge to Solve, Question
- Know Your Own Control Triggers
- Encourage Aspiring Leaders to Build Gravity, Respect Velocity and not worry about Mass
- Practice Being More Consciously Competent
- Look for Global Solutions for Local Problems
- Look for Upstream Solutions to Downstream Problems
- Put Balancing and Positive Loops to Work
- And many more...
Practices for Both Aspiring Leaders and their Mentors and Coaches...
- Work to Live or Live to Work?
- Enjoy the “Tension of Opposites”
- Model, Model, Model
- Create (and Notice) Your Own Personal Mastery Rituals
- Take a Stand for Your Boundaries
