It was my last year of college while finishing up my degree in psychology. Sitting in my organizational development class, I heard the words, “You get what you measure.”
I immediately took it to heart and applied it to my basketball coaching journey. It created intention around every drill, move, and skill we taught, as well as intention in our business decisions. And it’s something that has stuck with me as I’ve transitioned from the basketball world to working with high-performing leaders.
As leaders, it’s important to reflect and measure whether we are showing up truthfully and objectively. In doing so, we begin to understand where we are, where we want to be, and how to implement a process to close that gap. While feedback is necessary and effective, objective, detached reflection is where we can learn to fully trust ourselves as leaders.
We step into our power when we rely less on the external and more on our own intuition.
We can ask ourselves the following questions to help us put the heart-centered leadership principles into action.
- Am I staying connected to my purpose?
- Am I staying future-focused?
- Am I leading from the present moment?
- Am I leading from my heart?
- Am I being the leader I would have wanted to work for?
- Am I being the parent I would have wanted as a kid?
- Am I being the spouse/partner that I would want in a relationship?
Some of these questions are tough to answer. I do not always show up as the leader I would have wanted to work for. But great leaders are always growing through reflection. They know that they need to transform themselves to transform their business. When they stop growing, their business stops growing. And getting objective on where they currently stand is the first place to start.
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