What are you doing to develop your personal leadership?
I ask this question from time to time, and if you’re reading this, then I hope you would include this blog as part of it.
But what else are you doing?
Do you read books on leadership? TED talks? Audiobooks? Podcasts? Are you in a network of other leaders who help you wrestle with ideas?
What we do to grow our leadership influence is both a variable (what we do) and a constant (grow our leadership influence). But it rarely happens on accident. Intentionality paves the way for progress.
If you want to expand your leadership influence, it starts with intentionality. Commit to growing. Make sacrifices for the sake of growth.
Reading, for me, is a sacrifice. I have a solid routine, but regular reading is not part of that routine. That’s why I set a goal of reading a certain number of books the past few years (and increased my number this year). I want reading to be a central part of who I am, because it opens my mind to things I don’t get from old episodes of Psych. So, I’m finding ways to work reading into my routines.
So, once again, what are you doing to develop your personal leadership?
Take some time today to work through this. Make a decision about what you’re going to do, and then stick with it.
Maybe you’re going to read one leadership book each month.
Or listen to one leadership podcast a week.
Or start your day with a leadership thought.
Or watch a leadership video from YouTube or RightNow media.
Or choose to not do anything. But that’s not you. You want to grow.
In the meantime, I know you’ll hang around, and we will continue to grow together. Thanks for being here, now let’s expand our leadership influence.