A 5-day journey to living from your priorities
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.
If you're leading, then you are already guiding others. Sometimes this happens on its own, and you suddenly look up, and people are following you. A little intentionality with you're guiding can go a long way to your growth as a leader.
Take a second and evaluate these relationships:
1. How are you helping them grow as leaders?
2. Is there structure and rhythm to your guidance?
3. Are there mutual expectations about how you are guiding?
4. What are you learning by being a guide?
Maybe you don't already have people you're formally leading. Are there others who are earlier than you in their leadership journey for whom you could play the role of a guide?
Here are a few places you could find people with whom you could be a guide:
- New hires at your organization.
- Fellow members in a professional community.
- People in your community, neighborhood, church.
Guiding others has a good ROI. Teaching something to another person forces us to organize our experiences and mental models to communicate them.
Guiding others doesn’t have to look a certain way. It can be formal and structured or informal and sporadic. Consider what is helpful for the person you’re offering guidance to. Some questions to ask:
- Do they need a mentor they can regularly check in with?
- Do they need someone to help them learn a new role or skill for a short season?
Does life ever feel like a hack rather than on purpose?
You want your life to have meaning and impact. Daily life is made up of the spaces we gather and the moments we interact with one another.
What if your spaces, moments, and interactions not only felt natural and intuitive but also aligned with your priorities and positively impacted those around you?
Discover your Everyday Design so you can focus on what’s important.
Also, consider what you can commit to. You don’t want to say yes to mentoring someone, but then always be too busy when they want to connect. That doesn’t help anyone.
Speaking of time, you may be thinking, “I ain’t got time for that!” As a leader, you probably have a lot on your plate and providing guidance or mentorship feels like one more thing piled on top.
Leadership is about prioritization, choosing what to give time and attention to, identifying what will have a solid return on investment. Guiding others has a good ROI. Teaching something to another person forces us to organize our experiences and mental models to communicate them.
This often results in a better understanding for ourselves and new insights. Teaching refines your knowledge and gives you a view to see from another person’s perspective.
We’re all on a journey in our leadership. If you're just learning to be a guide, I recommend using 1on1s as a simple and effective structure for you to use.
A 5-day journey to living from your priorities
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.
A GUIDE TO GROWING SERVANT LEADERS
This post is part of my cultivating servant leaders guide where I share lessons learned from 20 years of leading and helping other leaders grow. You can explore other guides at everyday.design or download the eBook.
