Phenomenal Leader Roadmap
This roadmap can help you get where you want to be. Less stressed, less overwhelmed, more authentic, more confident, and more effective as a leader.
prioritize your time
Video: Prioritize your time
Activities: Prioritize your time
I’ve always been the type of person to get the hard things out of the way first. So I’m doing that now. This first portion of the roadmap is the hardest and the most important. It is all about getting your priorities straight.
Time management is a myth. Everyone gets the same amount of time, the same 24 hours each day. It is how you use it that matters. How much thought have you put into each minute of every day? Yes, every minute. Because each of them count.
The first thing that you need to do is figure this out. The first activity in this roadmap is a time study. I want you to account for your time, all of it, for at least a week. I’m giving you a nifty little tool to keep track of your time. Time Study
Be honest with yourself, if you spend 2 hours a day playing Candy Crush, write it down. Unlike other time studies might have you do this without really being cognizant of what you’re doing or actively making changes but not this one. I want you to record it, pay attention to it and throughout the week, make changes so that you are spending time on the things that you should be spending time on.
What’s that you say? How do I know what to spend my time on? Well, thanks for asking!
Tool # 2 is a Priority Matrix to help you figure out what you should be actually spending your time on. I didn’t create it, I can’t take credit for it. It was actually created by Dwight Eisenhower, who was a president here in the US in the 50’s. The 34th president came up with a really good way of figuring out what should be a priority in your life. Priority Matrix
The way that this tool works is you put everything that you feel like you have to get done in a box. Do it now, Get this scheduled, Get someone else to do it, and Stop doing this. When you put things in your boxes, think about how impactful the task is and how much effort you’ll have to put into making it happen.
Last thing with prioritizing your time. Time for tool #3. I’m giving you a productivity planner that you can use every day to help stay on track. Daily Productivity Planner
WHEW! This was a lot for the first part of the journey but I promise, doing this work is worth it!!
Tools: Prioritize your time
Motivate your team
VIDEO: MOTIVATE YOUR TEAM
ACTIVITIES: MOTIVATE YOUR TEAM
Thanks for coming back for more! The first step of the Phenomenal Leader Roadmap is quite a doozy. This step is just as meaningful, probably even more work, but can be tons more fun. Employee motivation is one of the most crucial parts of being a leader. If you don’t know how to motivate and engage your team, quite frankly you’re screwed.
So, tool #4 is designed to help you get to know your team, engage them, keep them motivated and growing and developing. Let’s walk through the tool. There are 3 tabs. The Employee Overview will help you engage, the Employee Recognition will help you motivate and the Employee Feedback tab will help you continue to develop your team.
The Employee Overview tab has a spot for Employee name, Career Goals, Personal Goals, Motivator, Top Skills, Communication Style, Training Needs and Notes. If you don’t know how to answer these questions for your employee, that’s telling. You need to fix that pronto. During your next 1:1, which I hope you’re having at least once a month, more so if they are new to your team, you need to make sure that you are asking questions that lead to these answers. Where do they want to go in their career, what is important to them personally, what motivates them, what do they do well. If you don’t have a personality or communication assessment that you are married to, I suggest using DiSC and I can give you more information about that. I love it because it is easy to use, actionable and allows you to easily assess the communication style of those around you.
The Employee Recognition tab is important because just like everyone has different motivators, people like to be recognized differently. You have a couple ways that you can use this tab. You can either have a row for each TIME you recognize each employee, or you can have one row for each employee, copy the columns for Reason, Method and Date for each time that you recognize that employee. Or you can just squish each time into one box. Totally up to you, I have a preference but I won’t divulge and squash your creativity.
The Employee Feedback tab will help you keep track of the things that each of your employees is doing well and what they need some help with. Same deal as with the recognition tab, how you track it is up to you, but you have to track it diligently.
Ok, have fun with tool #4 and get ready for the next stop on the Phenomenal Leader Roadmap.
Tools: Motivate your employees
conversations that work
video: conversations that work
activities: conversations that work
Are you tired of having conversations that just don’t go your way? Next stop on the Phenomenal Leader Roadmap and tool #5 is a little tool that I call The Corporate Fixer (that’s me!) Conversation Influencer Planning Tool. This tool is small but mighty! It works best when you use it alongside a personality or communication assessment, such as DiSC, I know I keep bringing it up but I LOVE IT. Anyhoo, this tool helps you plan out conversations that you are going to have that are important, or you have a big ask or you want to try to persuade someone to see things your way.
The tool has 6 steps that you need to take to make sure that you are having the best conversations possible. Get clear on your goals, really make sure that you know what you want to get out of the conversation. Figure out the purpose.
Then evaluate what you’re stepping into. What is the other person’s personality type? How will they react to the conversation? What motivates them?
Choose the right approach for the conversation. Do you go in with facts and data?
Make sure that you have an exit strategy. Do not walk into a conversation without having a clear way out that doesn’t compromise your values and you getting what you want. Be ready to get out of the conversation before it goes sideways.
And rehearse!! Practice makes perfect. Grab someone and walk through the conversation.
Ok, we are well on the way into the Phenomenal Leader journey! I hope you’re enjoying this so far! More to come!
tools: Conversations that work
Sense of self
video: sense of self
activities: sense of self
Tons goings on with today’s Phenomenal Leadership Roadmap. We are going to dig into the 5 Senses of Self. Self-Reflection, Self-Confidence, Self-Esteem, Self-Worth
Sense: Self-Reflection
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Activity: Personal SWOT
Personal Sense: Self-Confidence
To boost your sense of self-confidence, I have a blog with 5 easy steps to help you do just that.
Activity: 5 Steps to Boost Your Self-Confidence Blog
Sense: Self-Esteem
I have a free self-esteem challenge out there, it’s about 5 days long but for the purposes of this roadmap I want everyone to just do the day 1 activity. Ask yourself a not so easy question. Do I love myself? That answer needs to be a resounding YES. Let’s get you there. Get out a piece of paper. Write down TEN things you appreciate about yourself. This doesn’t need to be overcomplicated. It’s not just a list of ten things that you’re good at, it is 10 things that you love about YOU.
If you want a little more help, feel free to buy a copy of my book, You Are Enough, on Amazon
Activity: What’s Great About You
Sense: Self-Worth
When people talk about self-worth, people mean many different things. For the purposes of this Phenomenal Leader Roadmap, I’m talking about cold, hard cash! This blog post talks about how you can negotiate job offers and get paid what you are worth.
Activity: Negotiating Job Offer Blog
Sense: Self-Acceptance
Last sense and the most important one, self-acceptance. A great way to really begin to accept yourself for who you are is to write a letter to someone who wanted you to change or conform or not be true to yourself and let them know how it impacted you and then how you’d do things differently now that you have full self-acceptance. Please note, don’t send this letter!
Then write a letter to someone who has been your rock and has always accepted you for being you. Again, let them know how what they did
Activity: Self-acceptance letters
OK!! So now you have a better sense of self. You’re well on your way to being a Phenomenal Leader.
mindset shifts
video: mindset shifts
activities: mindset shifts
Last stop on the roadmap! I hope that you’ve learned a lot and have had fun along the way. The last piece of this puzzle is getting your mind right. Most people let some sort of limiting beliefs, which I call Stinking Thinking, get in the way of their success. I put together a little article that I hope helps you move past some of the Stinking Thinking that has gotten in the way of your success.
Tools: minsdet shifts
Did you enjoy the roadmap?
I hope that you had fun and learned a bit along the way!
Let’s tie it all in and put together an action plan so that you can remain successful.
Schedule a chat, grab a coffee and give me a call. I’m also there for everyone in the LinkedIn group as well, so we will definitely keep in touch.