Leaders Should Work Hard, But Always Keep "Me" Time
One of the most challenging aspects in our never - ending quest for effective leadership is for leaders to maintain a healthy balance between their commitment and hard work, on the one hand, and maintaining "me" time, on the other.
Someone who emphasizes the former without considering the latter often risks getting burned out, while someone who considers the latter predominantly is probably not spending enough time or effort to insure being a successful and effective leader.
Anyone who assumes a position of leadership should fully understand the need for this balance, but my experience has indicated that it is only the rare individual who maintains a healthy balance.
1.
Effective leadership does not come about by accident, but rather as a result of hard work, effort and commitment.
My over three decades of experience consulting to and training in excess of a thousand individuals at various levels of leadership, has demonstrated to me clearly that far too many times, people entering leadership positions fail to realize the level of commitment, work and effort it actually takes.
Great leaders are committed to their visions, and create goals, action plans, and then actually take action in a timely basis, to assure a reasonable chance of success.
True leaders realize that they must expend enormous amounts of personal resources, especially in terms of their own time, during their tenure in office.
They must however, take much care, that they don't sacrifice their personal lives, or they will put themselves under considerable stress and anxiety.
This demonstrates that is, therefore, inherent on a leader, to be a superb planner, and use organizational skills to enable him to get more done in the time he spends.
When a leader improves his productivity, he can get done far more in much less time, by minimizing waste.
This means he must be organized, prioritize and follow a logical agenda.
2.
A happy life requires someone to also maintain a healthy and satisfying personal life, as well.
Satisfied leaders place great value on their family and friends, and actually block out periods of time, and schedule planned time with these individuals.
These personal relationships create a healthy and happy balance, and create fairness to those individuals around a leader, who must understand and permit certain short - term sacrifices, to make this leader's overall life more fulfilling and balanced.
It should be emphasized that informing potential leaders of the need for this balance, as well as training them in methods to assure this, as well as enhance productivity, should be part of an organization's overall leadership training program.
Unfortunately, it rarely is!
Someone who emphasizes the former without considering the latter often risks getting burned out, while someone who considers the latter predominantly is probably not spending enough time or effort to insure being a successful and effective leader.
Anyone who assumes a position of leadership should fully understand the need for this balance, but my experience has indicated that it is only the rare individual who maintains a healthy balance.
1.
Effective leadership does not come about by accident, but rather as a result of hard work, effort and commitment.
My over three decades of experience consulting to and training in excess of a thousand individuals at various levels of leadership, has demonstrated to me clearly that far too many times, people entering leadership positions fail to realize the level of commitment, work and effort it actually takes.
Great leaders are committed to their visions, and create goals, action plans, and then actually take action in a timely basis, to assure a reasonable chance of success.
True leaders realize that they must expend enormous amounts of personal resources, especially in terms of their own time, during their tenure in office.
They must however, take much care, that they don't sacrifice their personal lives, or they will put themselves under considerable stress and anxiety.
This demonstrates that is, therefore, inherent on a leader, to be a superb planner, and use organizational skills to enable him to get more done in the time he spends.
When a leader improves his productivity, he can get done far more in much less time, by minimizing waste.
This means he must be organized, prioritize and follow a logical agenda.
2.
A happy life requires someone to also maintain a healthy and satisfying personal life, as well.
Satisfied leaders place great value on their family and friends, and actually block out periods of time, and schedule planned time with these individuals.
These personal relationships create a healthy and happy balance, and create fairness to those individuals around a leader, who must understand and permit certain short - term sacrifices, to make this leader's overall life more fulfilling and balanced.
It should be emphasized that informing potential leaders of the need for this balance, as well as training them in methods to assure this, as well as enhance productivity, should be part of an organization's overall leadership training program.
Unfortunately, it rarely is!
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