A LEADER’S LIFESTYLE – PART 4 – PROFESSIONAL TRANSFORMATION

This final installment on the success factors to effective leadership speaks to professional transformation. Once you have balanced yourself physiologically, having then planned for the interpersonal impact you desire – it’s now time for the capstone, for a new you! It is time to integrate purpose, growth and service into your life.

Transformation: relevant change in form, appearance, nature or character. Unlike many others, the profession of leader is full-time, full-service and high energy! A significant, periodic transformation is what will maintain your resilience and the energy it takes to lead and lead well. Let’s take a look at defining purpose, creating personal growth and discovering the key to serving others:

Defining Purpose

1. Find The Higher Calling – instead of steps to success, shape the facets of significance in what you do right now. What transcends money and material? What reveals meaning within your daily professional rituals?

2. Look In the Exhaust of Your Life’s Journey – do not look into the future for meaning. Examine your past; what have you always done well, what has by now become ridiculously easy?

3. Take a Third Grade View – young people have a knack for precision and brevity of speech. How would an eight year old describe the way you fill your days? (‘Helps people with people’, ‘Fixes hearts for a living’)

Personal Growth

1. Do Something Different, Now – no truer words have ever been uttered than ‘if you want something you’ve never had, you have to do something you’ve never done!’ Many today never take on the new and uncomfortable beyond the age of 30. Don’t wait; embrace the ‘newbie’ you.

2. Stop and Start – take on a new vocation or avocation. Find a teacher and place yourself at their feet. At the same time, pick some part of you to give up. When you buy new clothes, donate the old to make room in your closet – and apply the same to your personal brand.

3. Just 1 Thing – in a no normal world of overstimulation and distraction, simplicity makes room for completion. Completion will set you free.

A New Service Era

1. Give Value First – ‘service’ does not have to mean painful sacrifice, but it does exemplify the adage ‘pay it forward’. Harnessing the power of service simply means finding just one small part of your life where you give value with no strings attached.

2. Ego to Empathy Balance – in so many ways, ego brought us this far – but empathy will carry you through. What is one area of your life where you can simply communicate that you understand and care about another?

3. Passive Rewards – one of my early mentors espoused the beauty of passive income – returns that did not depend upon investing a directly commensurate amount of time. Consider your efforts in professional transformation in these same terms. Pick the right path and providence will conspire to lift you 10-fold.

Take on a leader’s lifestyle. Prepare to be physical. Prepare to interact. Prepare to transform. Then bring out the best in those around you.

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Don Brown dedicates his career to ‘helping people with people’ in leadership, sales and customer service. Bilingual and experienced at the executive and line-level alike, you see the results of his work across dozens of industries, including brewing, automotive, airline, banking and medical equipment.

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