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What is the 1 behavior change you'd like to make to be a more impactful and fulfilled leader and human being?
Change is not easy. We don't need research data to know it.
So what could be helpful in managing change? They are many perspectives to look at this.
One perspective is to think about behavior change in these 4 key elements as suggested by Executive Coach Marshall Goldsmith: creating, preserving, eliminating, and accepting.
Here is my interpretation of these 4 elements:
1. Creating:
What kind of results do you want to create in your life or your organization and community? What new behaviors do you want to practice? What type of energy do you want to emanate that may inspire you and others? What is the IDEAL YOU that you want to become?
2. Preserving:
Often times our development area is simply a manifestation of a strength over-used. For highly successful people in particular, what has made us successful can precisely be what’s holding us back. How can you ensure the preservation of those core strengths while mitigating potential over-use? Preserving can also be interpreted as leveraging good traditions, relationships, and environment to take us to the next level.
3. Eliminating:
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do, well put by Michael Porter. Each person, each leader, and each organization for that matter has a defined set of energy and resources available. As you manage the desired behavior change, what do you need to eliminate to ensure the proper focus on what you want to create?
4. Accepting:
This could be the hardest element for some of us - the wisdom and discernment of what you can’t change or what you simply choose not to change at this time. Acceptance creates mental and emotional space for forward-movement instead feeling stuck in a space of frustration, guilt, or anger.
I am sure you have your own interpretation of these 4 elements of change. That's great. Please note: the same 4 elements of change also apply to changes you want to drive in the team, organization, and community that you lead. You can also share your experience working with these 4 elements with those you care about.
So, what is the 1 behavior change you’d like to make to be a more impactful and fulfilled leader and human being?
How will life be different if you made that change? What outcome may ensue? What is possible?
Stay tuned. In the next post, I will share a 14-day change experiment for you to play with.
Resources:
Book: Triggers - Marshall Goldsmith
Growth Opportunities:
Contact me to explore how to accelerate change and scale up your impact.
