| Advice on moving into the next level of leadership |
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Before you walk into that new office and new role, I'd invite you to consider 5 actions:
- Be complete. Oh, not with the ongoing work, but with all the people with whom youve worked. Every one. Even THAT one. Allow yourself to be grateful for all of it. Acknowledge as many folk as you can. Acknowledgment is the voice of gratitude. Gratitude actually expands intelligence and opens the human space of inspiration and new possibilities.
- Get in touch with what you truly care about that which is fundamentally important. To you. In your life. This is the core awareness for you as leader as well as for those you lead and others with whom you work.
- Listen. Deeply. For the person. For the content. For the coherence. For the promise. For the action. For the results. For the knowledge and relationships being created and the possibilities in the conversation. Every conversation you have is an opportunity to add value or create waste. Listen.
- Get out of your own way. If you dont already have some daily practice to keep yourself centered and balanced emotionally and physically, start one!
- Enjoy. Sure, youve much to learn. Sure, youll make mistakes. Value them. Remember that you only can call something a mistake once youve gained a broader perspective. A colleague from Sweden told me recently that the word business in Swedish translates as nourishing life.
So, as you take on your new leadership role, enjoy the learning, the leading, and the nourishing of life.Thank you, Beth, for this forum and for your generosity and wisdom. I have learned much from you and am grateful. Kathy Ohm, Executive and Organizational |
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