BE A FORCE FOR CHANGE

Small changes underpin your success

Great leadership is not all about running global businesses like Richard Branson. It's also not always about having profound insights like Simon Sinek or Brene Brown.

Far from it. For most of us improving our leadership is about making small but significant changes that lift our results. Consistently and over time. An evolution.

Your Personal Evolution

When we consistently change and respond to the conditions around us we stay relevant. Our thinking grows and our beliefs change with the people and practices we work with. When we evolve we continue to add value and keep up with what is best or needed most from us.

But we can also become lazy or complacent. Letting things slide or neglecting our need to keep growing.

Be a force of change, not forced to change.

I was coaching a Director of Operations. He was widely known as a dinosaur, because his thinking was outdated, his beliefs ancient and his results were average. He resisted every single bit of insight and advice I gave him. His team resented him. I resented him. He created a pool of apathy around him with his reluctance to change. His troops had given up.

If I am honest he was a nightmare to work with. And eventually he was "resigned". Gone. And his Division evolved happily without him. A revolution.

When we fail to take time out and proactively take on influences from our team or industry, that is when we become irrelevant. We can fade away. Like a relic from another era we become known for being out of touch or not up to speed.

Sometimes this can happen because we have had other priorities. Then we feel lost compared to those that kept up.

Let's get better: EVOLVE

To keep up and stay relevant try to:
1. Make time to reflect on where we are and where we need to be
2. Understand what is changing around us.
3. Convert changes into meaningful actions for ourselves so that we grow and morph with the needs of our team, business or industry.