Unlock Your Full Potential: Doing the Work to Step into Your Power

Coaching Tips

3 Apr

Stepping into your power as a leader isn’t about waiting for the right moment to strike. It’s about being proactive – doing the work, every single day, to claim the confidence and authority that leadership demands.

One of the broader themes of my approach to coaching C-suite executives – and a theme throughout my book, It’s On You – is that leadership is earned through self-awareness and an unwavering commitment to growth. Pun intended: it really is on you to do the work required to reach your potential as a leader!

As I write about in the chapter of my book called “Doing the Work to Step into Your Power,” there are values critical to every one of us realizing our potential. When I served as CEO of Tipperary Sales, I always found myself harkening back to these seven values when I needed to assure myself that I can both nurture the people on my team and strive to continuously grow:

Discipline: In business, attaining your collective potential requires strategy and steadfast dedication to doing your absolute best, no matter what every day holds.
Stepping into your potential and serving others in realizing theirs requires that you have accomplishments to fuel your quest. Look back at what you and your team have already overcome and achieved.
It is very difficult to reach a target that isn’t clearly set in your mind’s eye.
Belief in yourself, your team, and your mission is critical to progress. This means being able to visualize the successful completion of the initiative and fulfillment of the target you had in your mind’s eye.
Reaching for your potential necessitates that you continue to move forward with an attitude of believing you are going to get through it.
Critical thinking is vital, but be prepared to adjust in the moment. Doing so helps you form situational awareness and see other potential avenues to success.
Imminent obstacles are sure to appear along the way, but you can still make the space and time to allow creativity into the problem- solving equation.
It is imperative that you are aware of, care about, and have empathy for the people and issues facing your organization each and every day.