How’s that working for you?
Leaders often live with a gnawing dissatisfaction with the status quo. They passionately strive for continuous improvement, never wanting “the good” to be robber of “the best.” Together, dissatisfaction and passion become the twin engines that drive a leader’s need to assess the results they are getting. The assessment “effectiveness question” I encourage leaders to ask themselves and others is: “How’s that working for you?” This very question requires one to assess where he/she is.
Here are three things to elevate your effectiveness in assessing, “How’s that working for you?”
- Challenge Your Thought Process. We plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we want to be. What stands between where you are and where you want to be? What problem must be solved to raise the bar beyond the status quo? Albert Einstein said, “The problem is never the problem but the way we see the problem.” Seek counsel. Leverage additional perspectives and experiences to challenge your thought process.
- Evaluate Your Attitude. Your attitude is the sail you set that determines the course of your life … although the winds of life blow in every direction, you set your own sail and therefore determine your own direction. None of us can determine everything that is going to happen to us, but we can determine our assessment of, and response to, what happens. Evaluate your attitude, as it is the only thing you can control.
- Look for gaps. Leaders see gaps. However, top leaders don’t look for the negative in the gaps they see; rather, they look for the positive in the negative.
What can you apply to your life today that can elevate your effectiveness?
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