Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2015

Do You Have Leadership Poop in Your Sand Box

Tracy Worley

Tracy Worley is America’s leading grace coach, international key-note speaker, trainer, syndicated radio host, author, and potential seeker, strategist and CEO of three values leadership based organizations. She works with business executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders world-wide to develop potential, tailor employee engagement modules, and turn up the volume on individuals and organizations potential personally and professionally.

Tracy knows firsthand about what it takes to find your potential, Individuals and organizations have individual cultures, stories, and rhythm – Tracy’s innovative style knows how to make it work. With a background in business management, business communication, project management, and life’s drama, Tracy found herself running a multi-million dollar organization at the age of 25.

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

But it’s exactly all these experiences that built character, knowledge, wisdom, and intuitive insight into individual and organizational potential. Tracy is highly intuitive, perceptive, and a world thinker in connecting what you cannot see. These gifts give her the ability to strategize with clarity where you are, where you want to be, and how to get there. Tracy’s expertise: training highly successful people to lead with authenticity to the desired success her client’s desire and deserve.

FOCUS ~ CLARITY ~ DISTRACTION

Yes, I asked the question and Poop is the word!

When working with my Executive clients I have found a common denominator when they are not on track, loss of focus, clarity is cloudy, and distracted from their main goals and purpose.

The common denominator: They are busy playing in someone else’s sand box!

What does this mean? When you are at a high level of success innovation and creativity is imperative to moving your organization and team forward. The tendency at this level is to look, play, and model what other people are doing; play in their sand box.

When playing in someone else’s sand box I can guarantee you will be the one to dig up all of their Poo-Poo that has been buried. Your organization has a unique culture, purpose, passion, mission, and vision all your own for a reason. So stay in your sand box, invite others to play in yours to build, innovate, and create sustainable organizational mission, vision, purpose, and passion. Caution, be selective of who you invite in so they do not leave a smelly deposit behind and your team has to spend time cleaning it up.

A Few Sand Box Tips:

Invite others to your sand box to add value to your organization.
- You know where the poo-poo is buried so you can stay focused in the Main Thing.
Visit and invite others to your sand box.
- When playing in some one else’s sand box; observe and ask a lot of questions
- Invite trend leaders to your organization and ask questions and have them give perspective fitting your purpose, passion, mission, and vision.
Create space and time for your team to innovate and create
- Weekly or monthly team meetings to white board ideas.
  - Invite others in your organization not on your team for their perspective
  - Invite experts outside of your organization to glean a different perspective.

NOTE: These conversations with just your team or inviting individuals from the outside give you an ROI of better processes, boost of energy to your team, and often an outline of best practices implemented to a level of achievement you did not see before.

Are you in your sand box today? Is there someone in your sand box that needs to be scooped out?

Is Your Leadership on Auto-Pay

Tracy Worley

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

Is Your Leadership on Auto-Pay

I recently came to a conclusion that Auto-Pay does not make my leadership easier. I have found myself in situations where Auto-Pay was not working and then receive a notice of PAST DUE.

Which begs the question is my leadership PAST DUE? Please bear with me as with Leadership always parallels to human stories and there are far too many stories where individuals pass-away but their accounts stay in auto-pay for months.

Two Questions: would your team navigate the plan with clarity if you went on Auto? Would your team even know you are on auto?

There is a definitive fine line between leading with involved clarity and letting your team do what they do best vs. being completely absent (the third is micro-leading).

With all negative or positive situations I sit back and ask myself a few questions:

What did I learn?
- How can I apply for future success?
What or how should I move forward?
- Small course adjustments.
Is this still a correct course toward the goal?
- Is the main thing still the main thing?

If you Google the benefits of auto-pay all sorts of benefits come up from saving time, security, easy, cost-savings, convenient, etc. . . . Leading an organization or team we tend to apply auto-pay to our day. When hiring individuals the expectation of what is required of them is in their job description. However, how often do we communicate with clarity the objective, planned goals, and the benefits of their role?

Here are a few ways to take your leadership off of auto-pay and into engagement where true success lies toward your organizations planned goal:

Clarity
- Gives design to your purpose.
- Gives direction to your team.
- Creates innovation in developing strategies and systems to keep within the lane of the desired outcome.
- Goals are measured progress; create a plan with clarity and everything will build toward your success.
- Integrate a plan as goals are the measured components to success.

“Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.” ~ Michael Gerber

Message
- Communicate to your team frequently; remember it takes around seven times before a message is received.
- Communicate the message in several ways; verbally, written, and in practice.
Model
- Daily if not weekly model the behavior and follow the system of clarity set into place.
- Your team must see you in action and not AUTO; action lends to modeling the behavior to success.

“Knowing the future is difficult; controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.” ~ John C. Maxwell

Leadership on auto-pay leads to destruction and rarely leads to the desired outcome. Leadership is intentional by checking in daily/weekly and engaging in conversation with your team to sustain the clarity and momentum to your planned success!

Look UP and OUT!

Tracy Worley

Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Is Your Leadership Underwear Clean?

Tracy Worley

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

Yes, is your underwear clean?

For generations the mothers in my family asked the children before leaving for school, “Do you have on clean underwear?” Or, “Make sure you have clean underwear on in case you get into an accident.”

I am not sure anything is clean after an accident and what underwear has to do with it . . . but my mind evolved from clean underwear to asking “is your leadership heart clean”?

The heart of a leader sustains life of an organization. Here are a few areas’ to reflect on your Clean Leadership Heart:

Are you intentional in growing yourself, others, and organization?
- Education, Innovation, Space for Creativity
Are you helping others UP the ladder?
- Mentoring, Modeling
Do you allow others and yourself to get dirty?
- FAIL is an awesome four letter word and should be part of your organizational process, let your people get curious, let your people get dirty
Do you create space for risk?
- An organization cannot grow and create innovation without planned risk

The heart of leadership is not who comes out on top clean, but who comes out on top with a team who is dirty with knowledge, wisdom, confidence, and respect of each other of a job well done and well fought.

Success is not for the weak of heart and that is why leadership is dirty! As stated, “If success was easy everyone would be successful.” Everything worth setting a goal toward is not easy and if it is/was easy for you go back and reflect on the few questions above you may have a few people to thank.

I challenge you to come out dirty with knowledge, wisdom, and the confidence to trust and respect your team!

Cheers to Dirty Leadership Hearts!

Look UP & OUT my friends,

Tracy Worley

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Ignite your passion, your why
Find your “You Are Here” star on the map and start moving forward with purpose

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Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2015

Investing in Potential². . . Your Perfection

Tracy Worley

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

Wonder how your peers become more successful than you? Do you excel where others do not?

Both of the below questions can be answered with one word; INVESTMENT.

Investing in learning and surrounding myself world-leaders such as Nick willingly pour wisdom, heart, and light into my life to achieving goals set for myself, clients, and also joining the top 20 percent leaders in my field.

My friend and mentor John C. Maxwell challenges us with, “bet on yourself, because if you don’t no one else will.” I personally heard this statement a few years ago and from then on I vowed to not only “bet” on myself but to “investment” as well.

Every year I not only spend time daily to learn, grow, and stretch to become the best I can be in my field; in turn adds to my Potential² bucket. I also spend monetary and time resources surrounding myself with mentors, leaders of industry, and peers who are on the same path of not only investing in their growth but adding to their potential².

The more we “bet” and “invest” in self we in turn give back to our clients, community, and world community as a whole.

“…no one is better than you, and no one is smarter than you. If someone is doing better than you are today, it is simply proof that he has begun doing the things other successful people have done. . . knowledge and skill are the keys . . . you must never let up. You must be continually learning and growing – every day, week, and month – throughout your career. . . to earn more, you must learn more.” ~ B.Tracy

Look UP and OUT my Friends!

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Go to our events page to find ways for you to invest and partner into your Potential². . . Your Perfection!

Brian, Tracy. (2010). No Excuses. MJF Books Fine Communications.

Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Stuck On The Same Page. . .

Tracy Worley

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

Do you find yourself re-reading the same page in a book?

I too find myself rereading and when this happens I pull my awareness into the WHY. We often get stuck in our personal and professional lives because we do not allow the time and space to take a moment to breath awareness into “doing the same thing is garnering the same results.”

Awareness: Where in your schedule today can you focus and not keep rereading and gleaning the same results?

I guarantee once you breath awareness into the stuck page there will always be movement forward to the next page.

Look UP and OUT,

Tracy Worley

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From Grace to Red Shoe Courage™ 5 Week Study is based from Tracy’s book From Grace to Red Shoe Courage.

We all experience peaks and valleys in our lives. It doesn’t matter where we have been in the past or where we find ourselves now. Growth can come from a positive attitude and the willingness to challenge our self-belief.

Through grace, courage is the gift of becoming the person we are meant to be. The seeds of courage fuel our heart to change, and possess perfections of our dream.

5 Week Study: From Grace to Red Shoe Courage™

What is Red Shoe Courage? Red Shoe Courage is being yourself, loving who you are, loving what you do, identifying personal value, and loving the people around you.

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*Turn your GRACE into COURAGE
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*Move forward without delay (Forward vs Fear)
*Who’s Shoes Are You Wearing? And the Courage To Wear Red Shoes!

WITH GRACE MOVE INTO YOUR PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS!

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Posted on Thursday, January 1, 2015

Word Of The Year: Legacy

Tracy Worley

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

I would not trade in the wisdom gleaned from what I learned in the year we are leaving and how I can and will apply to the future year. Personally, I had fails and win’s this year and one of the biggest lessons during a fail was a great lesson of humility; leading a project in humble grace as we kept maneuvering and adapting to ever changing conditions.

Planning for a new year can be daunting or a lot of fun. Honestly, there are some things I love about planning for the New Year and others I detest.

Here is a basic outline of how I plan success for the New Year:

Review your appointment book and online calendar.

Put items in buckets such as clients served, meetings, new product launches, vacation, etc. . . .
Once I create a few categories I then review the return on investment in personal and professional growth. I can also see if there are gaps of where I am not spending enough time and areas where I am spending too much time and delegate in the future.

How did I serve?

When in categories in an outline I can easily see my main business lines and then break down to who did I serve, did I serve them well, did I feel good about serving this group, etc. . . .
- Masterminds, Coaching, Corporate Training, and Speaking Engagements
I also break down volunteer hours to organizations, free consultations, and any free-speaking I may have done for the year as well.

Who did help?

I go back to my emails inbound/outbound
Private messages in social media
Who called throughout the year
- I break this information down to ensure I am spending time within my tribe, and also send gratitude notes for the New Year.

Who helped me?

I go back to emails
Social media
Calls
- I break this information down to ensure I end the year with a personal note, email, or phone call. Finishing your year in gratitude is one of the biggest gifts to those who lifted you to the next level.

Now it is time to plan for 2015

Know what products launched well last year and adapt
Know what products took a deep dive to fail and adapt
Create new products: pushing and playing your success BIG
Polish current products and keep serving well

Now it is time to launch products within your purpose, passion, and gifts of serving others.

Look UP & OUT my friends! ~ Tracy Worley