Living and leading aligned to your priorities
Leadership begins by identifying our priorities, what really matters in life. As you continue your journey, you must evaluate if the areas of your life are in alignment with those priorities.
If someone was watching your actions and words, what would they identify as your priorities? What about when nobody is watching? What priorities do your actions demonstrate?
Do you have someone with a good view of your life who will be honest with you? Ask them to identify your top three priorities based just on the actions they see from you.
If you don’t have someone like this, start a journal reviewing each day how your actions demonstrate or contradict your priorities. Be honest, nobody will read your journal, and you’re only deceiving yourself if you’re not honest.
Internal misalignment will eat you from the inside out.
Over time, go back and review how you’re doing.
Is there an area where you’re staying well aligned to your priority? Celebrate this!
Is there an area where you’re struggling to stay aligned? Look for what needs to change. Invite someone to help you make this change.
It can be hard to objectively identify where we are or aren’t aligned. But sometimes we can sense it intuitively. Consider these questions:
Let’s lean in closer to that third question. Recall if you have ever led a meeting, project or workshop and felt like, “I was made for this, I could do this all day long.”
We’ve all been designed with unique drives and strengths. Two of the best tools for identifying these are
Take time to discover and build on these. Aligning both with your priorities and how you’ve been designed will be your highest ROI as a growing leader.
As a leader, alignment with our priorities can’t be restricted to only one area of our life. If I lead at work but not at home, it’s going to create issues.
Alignment needs to span the domains of our life. Internal misalignment will eat you from the inside out.
Aligning both with your priorities and how you’ve been designed will be your highest ROI as a growing leader.
If you discover this misalignment, take some time to identify what is causing it. As you spend time for self-reflection, look at the misaligned are, and ask questions like:
Leading others starts with leading ourselves and taking ownership of each area in our life.
Leading is not the same as being in control. Sometimes what we need to gain alignments is to submit ourselves to the leadership of another. This isn’t passivity or indifference. I’m talking about leading ourselves by willful yielding to another out of love and respect.
It’s easy to spend our day reacting to what comes at us. What if you could be proactive, intentionally making decisions based on your priorities? It is possible!
Our five-day short course guides you through the process of identifying your life priorities and scaling them day to everyday decisions. You’ll learn how to establish a rhythm to build good habits and grow a team that will be with you in the journey.
How do we grow in alignment and leading ourselves? Here are some questions for you to reflect on…
Our growth in alignment leads to the next design element of leadership, proximity.
Instead of scaling goals up, you want to scale your priorities down.
Wondering how to identify your priorities? Try my 5 day priorities challenge where I explore how to design think your everyday life.
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Team leadership is a management approach focused on leading and guiding a group of individuals working together towards a common goal. A team leader is responsible for providing direction, support, and guidance to the team members, while fostering a positive and productive work environment.
Team leadership involves setting clear goals and expectations for the team, communicating effectively, and building trust and relationships with team members. It also involves empowering team members to take ownership of their work and contribute their unique skills and perspectives to the team's success.
Some key characteristics of effective team leadership include:
Overall, team leadership is a collaborative and empowering approach to management that values communication, trust-building, and results-driven performance.
There are several different styles of team leadership, including:
Overall, each style of team leadership has its own strengths and weaknesses, and effective leaders may use a combination of different styles depending on the situation and the needs of their team.
There are several key skills required for effective team leadership, including:
Overall, effective team leadership requires a combination of interpersonal, decision-making, and management skills, as well as the ability to inspire and empower team members to work collaboratively towards shared goals.
Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy and management style that emphasizes the importance of serving others first before considering one's own needs and desires. It's an approach to leadership that focuses on the well-being and growth of others, rather than solely on achieving organizational goals.
A servant leader prioritizes the needs of their followers or team members, providing them with support, guidance, and mentorship. They are committed to empowering their team members to reach their full potential and achieve their goals.
Some common characteristics of servant leaders include:
Overall, servant leadership is about creating a supportive and empowering environment for others to thrive. By prioritizing the needs of their followers, a servant leader can inspire trust, loyalty, and commitment, ultimately leading to better outcomes for the organization as a whole.
Learn more about how to cultivate servant leadership.
Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy and management style that emphasizes the importance of serving others first before considering one's own needs and desires. It's an approach to leadership that focuses on the well-being and growth of others, rather than solely on achieving organizational goals.
A servant leader prioritizes the needs of their followers or team members, providing them with support, guidance, and mentorship. They are committed to empowering their team members to reach their full potential and achieve their goals.
Some common characteristics of servant leaders include:
Overall, servant leadership is about creating a supportive and empowering environment for others to thrive. By prioritizing the needs of their followers, a servant leader can inspire trust, loyalty, and commitment, ultimately leading to better outcomes for the organization as a whole.
Learn more about how to cultivate servant leadership.
Servant leadership can be beneficial in the workplace in a number of ways, including:
Overall, servant leadership can lead to a more positive, productive, and fulfilling workplace environment, benefiting both employees and the organization as a whole.
Learn more about how to cultivate servant leadership.
Servant leadership differs from many other leadership styles in several key ways:
Overall, servant leadership is characterized by a focus on serving others, prioritizing empathy and collaboration, and taking a humble and accountable approach to leadership. While other leadership styles may be effective in different contexts, servant leadership can be a powerful tool for creating positive change and empowering others to reach their full potential.
Learn more about how to cultivate servant leadership.
Our five-day short course guides you through the process of identifying your life priorities and scaling them day to everyday decisions.
You’ll learn how to establish a rhythm to build good habits and grow a team that will be with you in the journey.
Our five-day short course guides you through the process of identifying your life priorities and scaling them day to everyday decisions.
You’ll learn how to establish a rhythm to build good habits and grow a team that will be with you in the journey.
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