Benjamin Child @bchild311
Avoid the Leadership Lid! 3 Signs a Leader is Hitting the Limits of Their Leadership
How close are you to your leadership lid?
12 Ways Leader-to-Leader Learning Will Develop Your Leadership Capacity
Vision - Thinking as a CEO and seeing the big picture. Capturing a vision of what could and should be for your organization and its people.* Getting out of the day-to-day details to enlarge your perspective.
Relationships - Connecting with a trusted network of local CEOs. Leadership doesn’t have to be lonely at the top (Article). Being at the table with authentic, confidential, and competent leaders will grow your leadership. Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.
Advice - Objective counsel from experienced CEOs to solve leadership challenges. Test your possible courses of action. Open your ideas to be refined. Get timely resolutions. Leverage the counsel from a collection amounting to hundreds of years of wisdom and experience focused on leadership solutions.
Health - Prioritizing first things first. Investing where it counts. Mitigating who & what’s being neglected. Bridge the disconnect between surviving and thriving holistically.
Strategy - Space to think proactively. Refine your most important goals. Explore opportunities, develop action plans, and focus tactics. Define your win and plan to get there.
Innovate - Listen to best practices, fresh ideas, tools, and models that are working for others. Catching the wind from examples of success stories.
Work Smarter - What got you here won’t get you there. Look at what has to change to reach new goals. Clarify expectations, conflicts, and shifts that need to happen. Avoid team burnout and leadership bottlenecks.
Accountability - Defining your commitments and action plan. Avoiding drifting or hitting a leadership plateau. Execute with excellence in the time needed.
Feedback - Leaders are continuous learners. Define what professional development you need or desire. Close the gaps in your leadership. Gain understanding and skill through evaluated experiences to grow in weak areas.
Focus - Operate from the highest and best use of your time. Define what energizes you and what you can delegate. Go deeper in your best work. Your work and influence matter!
Support - Leaders need champions, friends, and prayer partners. The CEO team will celebrate your wins and walk through the losses. You never know when hard times come unexpectedly. Even the independent bootstrap minded leader still benefits from a firm hand on their shoulder.
Courage - Leaders make the tough call. Your decisions have weight. Decisions to hire/fire team members. Launch the new product. Secure new funding. Sell, acquire, merge, liquidate, invest, or succession requires courage. Leaders need encouragement from leaders who know the weight of such significant moves.
The Advance CEO Leadership Circle will help you get to the next level in your leadership. These are just 12 ways leaders have experienced the benefits of being in the Advance. There are no perfect CEOs. We are always growing in our leadership and can be called to higher and deeper levels. Consider coming into a trusted circle of other CEO’s who are committed and working diligently to see their organization and its people reach their full potential.