The Transformational Leader

You may have heard the aphorism "If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room" a hundred of times. It does sound like empowering wisdom that should be shared to others but I would like to believe otherwise. In today's conversation, we would tackle this famous saying as we dissect this phrase down and would look at how brilliance - as a quality of being - creates this experience of being the smartest.

Does moving into a new room help with addressing your dilemma? What made you create this pattern of moving rooms in the first place? We'll examine these points of discussion and more as I'll discuss how this phrase is used, why simply transferring rooms doesn't change who we are, and why doing nothing and letting it be is the best solution to this challenge.

Being committed to transformational growth and stepping beyond your own limitations means that you'll have to work closely with your possibilities and most especially your fears. Our fears will always resurface in new ways and will always be there at every step of the journey. Today's conversation will not be about how you can overcome your fears but rather how you can practice keeping a good relationship with them.

We'll unpack the role of fear in our lives as I'll discuss why eliminating your fears is simply a myth, the energetic law around fear, different ways on how it can show up, and what you can do to help recognize fear in order to work with it well. All that and more so tune in as I'll share how fear is actually more essential in our lives than it looks!

We can't identify our own blindspots. We may have tried to explore it but let's admit it, we can't see what we're blinded to so we have to let go of that belief that we can do it all by ourselves. As a sequel to last week's episode, I'll discuss what you can do to discover your blindspots and why you should be responsible for them.

We'll continue our conversation on blindspots as I'll share how your blindspot will impact everything around you - your leadership, team, and the work's culture and environment. I'll also unpack the notion of blindspots colluding with each other so listen and don't miss the opportunity to transform yourselves as better leaders!

The need to identify and understand our blindspots in order to develop our leadership further is natural. We also tend to struggle to accept the idea once we learned our blindspots and that's also normal as we are indeed blind to our weak points. In today's conversation, we'll discover your blindspots by knowing how it gets created in the first place.

I'll discuss why our blindspots are a function of our fears, judgements, and significance on our way of being. I'll also share how we are exceptionalizing ourselves from these blindspots, how it creates an impact on our leadership structure, and why trust is needed when you want to know your blindspots. Additionally, something exciting is coming soon as I invite you to experience being a leader yourself at the moment. Instead of just gaining intellectual insights on leadership, create and be more of what you can do through The Intensive this Fall 2020 at Victoria, B.C.. Check out https://evergrowthcoaching.com/the-intensive/ for more details!

Everyone has a certain philosophy to live by - their perception and beliefs on how they should act and show up with the world. Your worldview will be the one that will help deepen your capacity as a leader but will also be in the way of developing your leadership. In another episode of the Leadership Sandtrap series, I'd be tackling how your viewpoint is actually where the sandtrap lies.

This conversation will be about how natural resistance to leadership feedback tends to make you feel unseen, unheard or feeling like being someone that you are not. I'll tackle how being stuck in your present worldview will prevent yourself from growing beyond your capacity, and how it can't help others get past their limitations. Tune in and discover why this is a challenge to transform your leadership and how you can work on this sandtrap.

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discussed a myriad of topics, including creating from ambition and/or devotion, the reflex of competitiveness, and standing for people, and what it costs.

Being 100% responsible for the impact you have created is a struggle in itself. The reality is that leaders would always be responsible for the experience that they've unknowingly created. This episode focuses on bringing leadership conversations, and how being aware of your impact would create more power to bring change to you and to others!

In this episode, I'll discuss everything you need to know about a leadership conversation - what makes it different from any other conversation, why it is challenging, and why it matters that transformational leaders should be aware of it. Listen as I'll also share when leadership conversations should occur and what you can do to deepen your capacity as a leader!

The need of feeling free normally results in resisting structure and limitations in our work that tends to lead into this leadership sandtrap. In this new episode of the Leadership Sandtrap series, it will focus on the need for freedom and how empowering structure doesn't destroy our freedom but actually helps in achieving it.

I'll discuss how resisting structure doesn't benefit the leader and its team, the aftermath of not allowing structure when you want to scale your leadership, and how you can develop freedom in your own workspace. Listen until the end of the episode as I'll share how you can allow them freedom, provide opportunities and at the same time be clear of their impact on their actions!

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam live coaches Anna Huwiler around cleaning up messes, coaching, and diving in deep together.

We tend to approach someone who we think understands us the most for assistance and support. As future transformational leaders, we should embrace the idea that working with diverse people than partnering with those who are almost similar to us is more efficient and this episode will tell you why! In this episode, I'll discuss why the philosophy of "fish trying to pull each other out of the water" is normal, why we should learn to get support from other kinds of people, and the first steps that you can do to create breakthrough results as a leader. All that and more so listen until the end!