Are you convinced that you and your team are capable of making a bigger difference? …For each other? …For your organization? …For your community?
Do you dream of working for an organization that is committed to Character-Based Leadership?
[Tweet “…Concerned that you don’t have the power or the position to make change happen?”]
The challenge is that he is not an attention seeker and he doesn’t fight for the spotlight.
A little over a month ago I spoke to a group of senior level business leaders. Toward the end of our time together, one man said his wife was working for an organization that has downsized several times in the past 12 months, the workload is increasing and morale is tanking. He wanted to know how to support her at a higher level.
Two weeks ago I watched another leader navigate the 4th layoff this year.
I’m currently reading John Maxwell’s new book, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth. One of those laws is: “Growth doesn’t just happen.”
One of the points that John makes is that you have to be intentional and willing to invest in your growth. (With both your time and with your finances.) He tells a story of wanting to take an expensive leadership development course early in his career and having to save for months in order to do so.
[Tweet “It’s hard to improve when you have no one but yourself to follow. John Maxwell”]
His point reminded me of something a former employee said to me years after we worked together. He said that he has never worked for anyone else that has been so invested growing themselves and others. The beauty of the comment is that even when the budget for training dried up and blew away, the people I served still received great training.
When my husband and I were first married we moved three states away from where we had grown up.
And quickly learned that the carbonated beverages we had been consuming for our entire lives were not called POP.
As we’ve continued to move I’ve kept a mental list of others…
