With the uncertainty that still exists around, “what’s next”, COVID, flu season, war, threats, politics, and how we work, leaders are looking, more and more, to coaches for a dependable, reliable, impartial, skill enhancing, confidential relationship that can form part of their personal Board of Directors.
Step 6 - Your advisory board
So, the idea here is to enlist other human beings to support you on this journey to come closer to you being your ideal or better self.
The immediate hard part of this is allowing yourself to be vulnerable enough to ask someone to enlist and support you. So, you have to be a little hard nosed and true to yourself about who would actually want to ask and who would do a good job supporting you.
Step 5 - Learn
The thing I do want to mention though is that the learning I am talking about is the learning you do to stay ahead of the speed of change around you. Without learning at or above the speed of change around you, you are banking (quite literally) on what you already have in the way of knowledge and skill and understanding.
Steps 3 and 4 - Things to try
Step 2: Who are you now - it's simple, and not easy
Hopefully you’ve read the first three articles in the series? In this article we will dive into figuring out who you are now, which is the second step in the change process.
This step I could see being more scary than the others in all honesty. This is the step where you take inventory of who you are now, for real, full accountability to yourself!