Leadership Question of the Month

"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership." ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

What is your biggest limitation to personal and professional success?

How will you overcome this and transform it as an opportunity?

To lead is to serve,

Coach Carolyn

Lead Yourself First

One of the first steps to becoming an effective leader and to be in healthy relationships is to possess the right attitude. John Maxwell defines an attitude as the outward behavior of an inward feeling. To have a healthy attitude, we must spend time looking within and working on what is not working. We cannot lead others if we cannot lead ourselves first.

Leading ourselves first means definitely knowing what our strengths are but also knowing our limitations. And in knowing our limitations, we can be humble enough to say, "I'm sorry, I don't know. But let's find out." When someone below you on the food chain knows that you are not afraid to fail, then failing won't be looked at as final. You can set the example that although you may not have all the answers (and tell me who does), but that a true leader is willing to admit it and move on.