3 Surprising Ways Leaders Are Optimizing Their Performance
At TLI, we believe all leaders benefit from optimizing their performance. As shared last week, there are many benefits to optimizing how you are working as a leader: increased focus, ability to innovate, increased impact and influence, improved performance, and feeling much better.
If you can imagine yourself being optimized, what would be different for you?
How would being at the top of your game (in the ways you define that for yourself) while also being grounded, present, focused and highly effective benefit you?
What if you could optimize your performance regardless of the current circumstances you find yourself in. In fact, it is through optimizing your leadership that you are able to turn around your current situation and create a new future.
Today I want to share three surprising ways you can optimize your performance to inspire you to begin the process so that you can start 2024 in a new place in your leadership:
1. Get Curious About Your Blindspots
It may seem counterintuitive to look at your blindspots and areas where you need to develop your leadership when wanting to optimize but, it is precisely the place to look as your primary blindspot is most likely the thing that is preventing you from creating a high level of performance. So, what do you imagine would be your primary blindspot? You probably know based on feedback you’ve gotten or challenges you are facing. When you begin working on this, you will start to optimize your leadership.
2. Look for New Opportunities
It may be surprising to think about new opportunities as part of optimizing your leadership but it is essential. When leaders are able to weather the storm and be successful, they have not only delivered on the results they have committed to but they have gone beyond and looked for new opportunities to deliver new business and/or leadership outcomes. What opportunities have you been missing but could bring into focus before the end of the year?
3. Create Renewal Practices
When leaders are under the most pressure, they require the most extensive renewal practices. So, if you are feeling overwhelmed, frustrated and even burned out, you may want to explore how to create renewal practices to “fill your cup back up” while you are still delivering against your goals. These can, in fact, happen simultaneously but must be consciously defined, created and practiced. What new practice could you create to renew yourself on a daily and/or weekly basis?
All three of the above actions may seem counterintuitive and surprising yet, when you choose one (or all three), you will begin to shift how you are leading and take the very first steps towards optimizing your leadership so that you can feel better in the near future.
At the Tenacious Leadership Institute we are committed to helping you reach your full leadership potential and believe that leadership optimization is essential for all leaders given the world we are living in.
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Leadership Practice
Pick one project where you could apply one of the above actions and implement it this week. You may want to discuss and include your team as you plan it out.
About Athena
Athena Williams, Founder and CEO of Tenacious Leadership Institute, has been supporting leaders worldwide to become more tenacious for over 20 years. She has found that tenacity is the key to sustained leadership success in today’s ever-changing world. Through her coaching and leadership development programs, she helps leaders expertly handle change, complexity and other challenges so they can quickly get better results for themselves, their teams and their organizations. Take the first step to becoming a tenacious leader by scheduling a call with us.
