Feeling like your leadership potential is being held hostage? Maybe it is. How can you be sure?
Ask yourself these three key questions:
- How am I able to consistently contribute really great work?
- How is my work life improving?
- Am I raising the quality of life for myself and others?
If your leadership role feels like it’s being held hostage, it may be time for you to set it free via a
better career, work-life fit in the new world of work.
Rethink engagement.
Our 24/7, interconnected work world – where free-flowing information is delivered via integrated systems that link networks of relationships and expertise – is rapidly redefining the nature of work. As organizational models pave the way to creating new design structures to better meet customers’ expectations, the ability to rise up requires tomorrow’s leaders to rethink organizational, career, and work-life success.
Lifting your own level of engagement by examining your well-being can be a helpful way to understand how satisfied – or dissatisfied – you are as a leader in the context of your career, work-life fit. Intrinsically, we understand that a higher level of well-being is better for us personally as well as for our organizations, but somewhere along the way in the process of company mergers, downsizings, and rightsizings we may find our satisfaction with our own abilities spiraling downward as more accountabilities have shifted to management. Now we find ourselves having to address unprecedented work challenges while also trying to prioritize our own conflicts between the demands of life and career.
Before you can reasonably expect to increase the discretionary effort of others and help them achieve, let’s give some thought to how you might more fully live your own best life and end the downward spiral.
A new approach.
Finding enrichment and improving well-being is possible, even during these demanding times. Just as many organizations measure the overall impact of their employees’ well-being on business performance, you too can elevate your understanding and rekindle engagement with your work by re-calibrating your career and your life.
Taking a different approach to evaluating your own well-being starts with a deeper dialogue and holistic understanding of the elements impacting your overall leadership experience and aspirations. Obtaining fact-based insights that scale your professional and personal priorities can help you design a personalized road map that keeps you focused on the decisions and strategic conversations that lead to your best life and a rewarding workplace experience. How important is your life’s game plan?
This year will be different.
The new year can be filled with exciting advancements, growth opportunities, and new work styles. Ask yourself one simple thing:
Am I just getting by? Or am I thriving? How will I thrive more?
By taking an honest view of your leadership role today and its impact on your quality of living, you can begin to make strategic choices and conduct the workplace conversations necessary to lifting up your leadership potential, become an even better leader, and live your best life.
To get started on crafting your customized road map and enjoying the benefits of fresh insights and a well-coordinated strategic agenda, contact us today.
©2012 All rights reserved. Judy White, SPHR, GPHR, HCS is the founder and president of The Infusion Group™. A trusted partner in creating new possibilities in talent management and workplace culture design to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, and society. How may we help you?
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