Prepare Your Leadership

Afternoon Cadre Sphere hello Hello. Given a minute here for people to join us today. Talking a little bit about some leadership, identity perspectives and things like that. Hope you're having a great, great Monday. Not too chilly in your area, weather is nice. Hopefully. Hopefully had a great weekend. Got to get outdoors, enjoy that or do whatever you love to do. So today I'll start by asking you to write down three things of three. It's my favorite journaling, quick journaling technique. Three things of three.

First thing is what are three emotions that you currently feel? You can write this down, think about it. Emotions, feelings, maybe even thoughts. One or two words about what is currently going on in your in your world. What you are feeling, what you are seeing, what you are hearing. What are three things? And then another thing. Three things about intentions. What do you want to feel? And this is not a comparison. It's not an envious like oh, I can't feel that way. But what are gratitudes that you have?

What are you grateful for today on this Monday afternoon, late morning, early afternoon, what are three things you are grateful for? You know, it may be Veterans Day because maybe you have a veteran in your family. Veterans Day. Be grateful for them, think about them, send them love. So three things you're grateful for another. So once you have that good and you're prepared to take on the day I recharged Want to talk about a little bit about leadership identity. So leadership identity theory is kind of a controversial topic.

Not too controversial, but it deals with the abstract which lot of science people don't love. So it's all about your perspective on your leadership. So it's on the basis that if I view you as a leader and you view me as a follower, we're gonna have a pretty good relationship where you are the leader, I'm the follower, and we follow that. However, if we both see ourselves as leaders on there might be butting heads or if we both see each other as followers, nothing might be getting done. Might be a little resistance there.

A good example I point to is at work. My supervisor is my leader. I know I am the follower. I follow what the supervisor says and he leads. It's a good relationship there. However, an interesting nuance example is at graduate school and classes with projects and other things, we're pretty equal, me and my other graduate students. So if I view myself as the leader and they view themselves as a leader, there's going to be some butting heads on things. However, if we both see each other as leaders and followers and it's More of a fluid back and forth where I know I'm going to lead on some things, they're going to lead on some things.

And we both go in knowing that it can be a pretty cohesive relationship there, working relationship. So I ask you, what environments are you the leader? What environments are you the follower? Is it clear in your, in your work that you are the leader or the follower in certain areas? Or is it pretty abstract where it's up to interpretation? Again, this is all based on your perspectives. If you view the leader as a leader, then that's, they're gonna, they could take that and feel more leader like.

However, if you're giving leader leader intentions for yourself to them, they're gonna b*** heads. So again, it's all up to your perspective. Other environments where you feel more like a leader or the environments where you feel more like a follower, Are there environments where you feel that people give you leadership or leader like view you more as a leader but you don't always take it or there are relationships where you feel like a leader and want to be the leader but don't get that encouragement from others.

So that other environments where that's getting picked up and, and then I invite you to search then. And also what is your leadership identity? If you are given the chance to lead, how do you feel view your leadership? How do you lead others and do you have a clear strategy for that as well? So I want you to pay more attention. If people are giving you some leadership encouragement in certain areas, are they asking you more questions, seen for answers or wanting you to lead, are you picking up on that?

Are you taking that chance? If you want to become a leader, you can help your, help your leadership emergence flourish. If there is that, that is the case. So that is a little bit about leadership identity. If you have more questions, reach out to me on LinkedIn. Happy to answer it. So yeah, hope you have a great rest of your afternoon. Nick Hansen's on at. You can take a walk with him and then we have the full calendar on the calendar icon here on the app. Hope you have a great rest of your Monday.

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