I love people watching and am keen observer of their actions. Two of my higher level strengths is connecting and relating. These two strengths are so strong and developed that at a networking event I can tell you who belongs to who, who is avoiding who, and who doesn’t belong to who but spending a lot of time together.
Don’t worry I do not share your secrets. I have discovered and noticed as an increasing technology society we are leading our lives under Fitbit rules. These are just a few ways society is being led by technology.
- When to take action (beeps when you have been sitting for an hour)
- Calculating goals for you (calculates what your goals should be)
- Celebration (lets you know when you have reached your daily goal)
- Pulse, Sleep (keeps track of your pulse, sleep habits, calories, etc.)
- Distance (lets you know if you have made the distance goal, redundancy implied)
My question to you as a leader, are you finding the pulse of your people?
People do not know where they are going unless goals and the path are laid out. When goals and the path is not clear; people set their own goals, or end up somewhere else. “People need responsibility, they resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.” ~ John Steinbeck
As a leader of “self” what actions are you not fol
lowing through on? Your actions are being shown in large lights and even in Fitbit rules your actions are shown with a back-light in the dark. There is not hiding your leading actions, so again I ask as a leader of “self” what actions are you not following through on?
“The world has a habit of making room for the person whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.” ~ Napleon Hill
Below are five areas of connection and caring actions to bring into the bright lights of your leadership. The pulse of the people is hungry for strong leaders without oppression and modeling success with transparent integrity.
- Consistent in Challenging your team: create goals for them and push toward the next level of success
- Cheerful Confidence believing in their talents: bring people into their strengths and they will start believing in their success too.
- Creative Conversation leads to innovation: bring shifts to conversation to bring back sanity from the insanity of having the same conversation bringing the same results.
- Commit to leading yourself and others: invest in adding value by education, growth-opportunities, coaching, mentorship programs, etc. . . .
- Communicate Clearly and speak truth: crucial conversation with brings about a quicker shift in success for you, your people and the organization.
Change the pulse of your people to healthy conversation around the water cooler, if you do not give them knowledge, goals, and sustainable actions they will make it up, gossip, or go somewhere else. “All human beings by nature desire to know.” ~ Aristotle
In “celebration hands” I applaud you and celebrate your success!
Look UP & OUT!
Tracy Worley