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.
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!
How you best navigate and contribute in these complex times: First of all, a "Bearing" is movement in a specific direction. What I know is, that “specific direction”, is guided by one’s strengths, values, vision, skills and behaviour.
Second, my philosophy is that the direction of your movement comes from "the inside out". Outside influences alone will not be enough to find your Bearing.
And, if you don't know the Bearing you want to take right now, that's O.K. too. It takes some work to figure it out!
What struck me about what we learned was that we - leaders, managers, recruiters, HR - can learn how to communicate with, understand and incorporate people into our teams, who have different thinking preferences and behave differently than we do. What’s more is that doing so will strengthen a team’s ability to generate new solutions, solve tough problems, keep a breast of change, etc.
