Leadership Coach Bristol
Leadership Coach Bristol: If you find yourself looking at another person or organisation and thinking, “…but why don’t they just do that?” Then you have just identified a skill that you do have, that ‘they’ do not. If you find yourself thinking this more often than not, then you might just have identified your leadership potential.
‘I used to think “What is the point…”?’
Working in organisations that were not open to feedback was infuriating. I used to think “What is the point in asking me to do the staff turnover figures, month after month, if, when I tell you they are really high, you do nothing to attend to that?”
Being a spinning cog in an organisation that wants to have me tick a box, but is unresponsive to the information that is elicited in the process, seems utterly mindless to me. The box-ticking seems even more purposeless if the information shared could help people or raise the bottom line. Why would you NOT take advantage of that resource?
I am not clairvoyant. I do read situations and cultures well, I am a lateral thinker. I am a Dot-Joiner and I am a resource. Some organisations were an absolute joy to work for and really encouraged engagement of this kind. Thus began their upward spiral. Some organisations were entirely immune to really useful feedback. Some organisations would not change their ways even if it would literally pay them to do so.
“If you are a Dot-Joiner who feels unappreciated in your environment then…”
If you are a Dot-Joiner who feels unappreciated in their environment, it might not be you that is the problem. If you are a jot joiner who feels unappreciated in your working environment, it might just be that you have unrecognised and untapped leadership potential. It might just that you can see what needs doing and it might just be that in a top-down, hierarchical organisation, that this kind of brilliance is not welcome. You see, brilliance can be seen as a threat. Brilliance is a catalyst. Brilliance shines a light in uncomfortable places, AND, brilliance is SO good for teams and organisation who are courageous enough to hear it.
If you are a Dot-Joiner who feels unappreciated in your environment then there is a three-stage process to follow. Firstly, recognise the truth and value in what you see. Others opinions are their own business. Secondly, protect yourself; if you are brilliant and a catalyst for change then you might want to learn to pause before you speak. This pause is not because what you are about to say is not a truth, but precisely because it IS. It is often really worth speaking these things out but first ensure that it is worth the risk to you… and make sure that you have a safe place to take yourself afterwards if you get bruised. Fear makes people do unusual things. Thirdly. if your input is repeatedly unwelcome, begin, and there is no rush, to see another work environment. Find an environment that honours your engagement and will value what you bring.
Leadership Coach Bristol
Business needs courageous leaders like us. And, we need to make really clear decisions regarding where we start. Take care of that, be potent where it is safe, and, let the ripple effect begin.