Leadership is an acquired skill that anyone can learn.
This site explores the fundamental principle of leadership: Show people where you want to go and let them help you get there.
In the 90-day leadership training track you will learn skills to address both halves of this critical idea.
We will explore how to formulate a plan to show people where you want to go and to stop getting in your own way when it comes to letting them help you get there.
“Don’t bother about whether or not you have talent. Just assume that you do, and then forget about it. Talent is a word we use after someone has become accomplished. There is no way to detect it before the fact, or when someone is still grappling with the learning process. Leadership skill is not a natural endowment like big blue eyes… You can learn the skills required for leadership in the same way that you can learn anything else you are strongly drawn to.”
Leadership is difficult. What it takes to overcome the challenges and uncertainties is a conviction in your heart that you know where you’re going and you won’t accept anything less than to reach your final destination.
You will get discouraged.
Fall short.
Feel like you don’t know what you’re doing.
Those feelings are a necessary part of leadership.
Take comfort in knowing all leaders experience the same feelings of self doubt.
Be thankful that you are grappling with things that the average person never has the opportunity to think about.
In the 90-day leadership training track you’ll learn the single most important task that will help you overcome the feelings of inertia, self-defeat and exhaustion.
We are judged as leaders based on how we react to feelings of doubt and uncertainty. And the bright side of that is that our reactions and responses are always within our control.
Your team needs to feel the energy and warmth coming from your conviction to succeed.
How can I be a good leader?
All learned skills atrophy without use or refreshment. You will need to read resources over and over again through the years to once again fill your reservoir with the knowledge to do what does not come naturally.
There are some quick tips that you can implement right away.
Or there’s the 90-Day Leadership Training Track, a self-guided course of improvement to guide you over the course of 90 days.
Or Leadership Coaching is available as well.
In my career I have been many things: an employee, an employer, founder of a company, president of a non-profit; sometimes the leader of dozens, sometimes the leader of only myself.
On the path to good leadership, many times the answers are within. Other times you will need an outside perspective. Sometimes hearing from someone else what you already know makes you think about it in a slightly different way.
