Chapters of Leadership: Settling | Purpose - pt.1
It Can Be Unsettling Can’t it
It’s like that queasy feeling you get on a roller coaster at the bottom of a steep drop, as you quickly ascend to the heights of its tracks. You are probably feeling it right now or it is something you have certainly felt in your story of leadership – that moment where you realize you’ve been put in some type of leadership position, a new promotion, a new team, a new area of the business and deep down something feels unstable beneath you.
All Things Are Difficult Until They Are Easy
In chapter one, we find ourselves in the SETTLING part of our story. It isn’t the type of settling you’d compare to the first pioneers, but more like the sands in an hourglass settling from one end to the other when you flip it to the opposite side. Like the up-and-down roller coaster, this chapter feels erratic at times.
Through his organization (@The Table Group) Patrick Lencioni developed the Working Genius Assessment™. Through it we have an accessible framework to understand the ways in which we will find energy or be drained through the work we do on a daily basis. He places these in three categories - Genius | Competency | Frustration.
Deeper Roots
When is a specific moment and/or time you felt that unstable feeling in your own journey?
If you are in the moment currently do you recognize specifically what is making you feel unsettled?
The original Webster’s dictionary defines settle as: To place in a permanent condition after wandering or fluctuation – how could holding this definition at the forefront of your mind in this moment help you embrace everything that is going on in your story?
Do you know your Working Genius Assessment™ results?
Do you actually understand what it is telling you?
What is specifically difficult for you right now?
