You Are a Leader

SUMMARY

Are you one of those people who thinks everybody else is a leader except you?

This is a common misconception and I want to help you to understand that you don't need to have a team to be a leader.

So, stick with me because this week we're going to shift some mindsets around that.

We've come out of that post-pandemic VUCA world. We used to be in an information world, and before that was the industrial age. But the thing is, it doesn't matter what area of leadership we are in; we still need to have these basic principles down pat, no matter which age we are working in.

We talked about the fact that there are three faces of leadership.

The first one is Personal Leadership which is all about YOU.

The second is Professional Leadership which is all about you getting results.

The third is about People Leadership which is about taking people on the journey with you.

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP is the foundation of all other areas of leadership. If you are not secure in yourself and have the confidence to lead yourself, then how do you expect to get results and lead others as well?

The three areas of Personal Leadership are the following:

The first is your Identity, which is all about how you feel about yourself.

The next one is your Intelligence, which is about going beyond what you know and looking at things like your emotions and your social intelligence.

The third area is Intention, which is about having a plan for your life and not being stuck in just the day-to-day of getting up, doing the same thing, and then going to bed.

TRANSCRIPT

Are you one of those people who thinks everybody else is a leader except you?

This is a common misconception and I want to help you to understand that you don't need to have a team to be a leader.

So, stick with me because this week we're going to shift some mindsets around that.

Hi, this is Grant Herbert, VUCA Leadership and Sustainable Performance Coach, and today I want to continue this conversation around leadership by helping you to understand that YOU are a leader.

Last week, we started this conversation looking at how leadership is changing in the current landscape. We're now in the age of AI.

We've come out of that post-pandemic VUCA world. We used to be in an information world, and before that was the industrial age. But the thing is, it doesn't matter what area of leadership we are in; we still need to have these basic principles down pat, no matter which age we are working in.

We talked about the fact that there are three faces of leadership.

The first one is Personal Leadership which is all about YOU.

The second is Professional Leadership which is all about you getting results.

The third is about People Leadership which is about taking people on the journey with you.

Within each of these areas, I talked about the nine crucial shifts every leader needs to make to thrive and survive and be who they need to be as a leader in today's world.

So, what we're going to do this week is we're going to have a look at that first area of leadership, the one that's all about you, and that is PERSONAL LEADERSHIP.

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP is the foundation of all other areas of leadership. If you are not secure in yourself and have the confidence to lead yourself, then how do you expect to get results and lead others as well?

What I want to do today is make sure that you understand what you need to work on in your Personal Leadership so that you can become who you need to be to do those things.

Last week, I introduced you to the 3 areas of Personal leadership.

The first is your Identity, which is all about how you feel about yourself.

Your Identity is who you believe you are and who you believe you're not. This is a key area that you need to work on to remove the limiting beliefs and the roadblocks currently getting in your way.

The transition we want to do here is to go from being conflicted to being congruent.

Being congruent means being able to line up with your values, who you truly are and what your beliefs are. It's being more authentic, to be the real deal, to take off the mask and stop pretending to be who everybody wants you to be.

The second area is in your INTELLIGENCE.

This shift is about going beyond that singular Intelligence of IQ (your cognitive ability) to embracing your multiple intelligences as a human being — particularly your Emotional and Social Intelligence.

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to be able to notice, name and navigate your emotions instead of suppressing, ignoring them, and all the crazy things that we've been taught to do.

Social Intelligence is the ability to be able to want to understand the emotions that others might be going through — to have empathy and to be able to serve them.

Then the third area is INTENTION. This is about going from being scattered to having a clear plan on what you're doing all that for.

So, PERSONAL LEADERSHIP is all about your IDENTITY, your INTELLIGENCE, and your INTENTION.

Well, that's it for me for another week. Join me again next week as we continue unpacking these three faces of leadership, and we look at your Professional Leadership.

I'll see you then.