Improving Leadership Effectiveness: Do You Want Comfort, or Results?

Over time, your leadership effectiveness will deteriorate unless you invest in your leadership capacity. Each day, new opportunities come along for improving your impact as a leader. In those moments, do you choose comfort or results?

But I’m too old for this.

We’ve been doing it this way for a long time.

Why change now?

It doesn’t feel authentic.

What if I don’t do it right?

Things seem fine the way they are.

What if it doesn’t work?

Doing the same thing, expecting different results, is comfortable.

But sooner or later, you will have to choose. Do you want comfort or results?

“The biggest threat to future success is past success.” – Henry Ford

Improving effective leadership is hard.

Don’t confuse discomfort with inauthenticity.

If you wait until you are comfortable before you take the leap, you will never stretch yourself.

If you wait to try until you perfectly understand it, you will never start.

If you see mistakes as failure, you won’t learn anything new.

If you wait for others to try it first, you aren’t a leader.

Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice makes habits.

Coached practice makes better habits.

New habits require reps. Lots of them.

How did you get good at what you do now? The same applies to the next thing?

Despite your resistance, are you willing to put in the work to be a more effective leader?

It’s OK to make the decision, take the risk, learn from mistakes, and reject the myths about why you shouldn’t or can’t.

Today is the day to improve your leadership effectiveness. The world desperately needs it.

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