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What's Your Purpose? Simple Question. Difficult Answer.
What is your purpose as a leader? Executives may be quick in giving answers related to achieving the company's goals, increasing shareholder value, and taking care of their employees. But how about your personal purpose? Why are you doing what you are doing? And is there alignment between what you do at work and what makes your life meaningful?
In the first episode of Second Crack - The Leadership Podcast, Martin Aldergard and Gerrit Pelzer discuss why exploring one's purpose matters for you as a leader - but also why it can be quite scary. We look at what questions leaders can ask to help align their individual purpose to their organization's and how this can help navigate change.
For more info, visit secondcrackleadership.com
Key Time Stamps
[00:38] Why this Podcast? We explore typical leadership challenges and dilemmas. Instead of giving generic “how-to” advice, we invite leaders to self-reflect.
[04:26] The leader's job is not to provide the answers, but to ask the right questions for which answers are found by the collective intelligence of the people.
[06:41] We need to put people at the center of organizational change. Instead of focusing on “processes”, leaders need to recognize the human side of transformation. Human beings don’t always act “rationally”, they act based on their emotions.
[09:55] A core leadership theme is to establish a purpose, a common sense of direction. A leader’s inner purpose needs to be aligned with the organization’s purpose. However, at times, even experienced leaders may experience a sense of loos of direction, loss of control.
[14:46] Leaders need to to stop and pause and identify potential misalignments between their personal and their organization’s purpose and direction. What is truly important in terms of your values, what you want to achieve, and where you are in life right now?
[19:29] Questions around purpose are not new. But people tend not take the time to sit down and think about it. We live in a world in which action is over-valued, and reflection may not look “productive”. However, reflection is prerequisite for the right action.
Reflection Questions:
How can I make the time available for reflection in my busy working life?
What is important to me? What is my purpose? Why am I doing what I'm doing?
Connect with Martin and Gerrit on LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/martinaldergard
www.linkedin.com/in/gerritpelzer
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By Gerrit Pelzer, Martin AldergardWhat is your purpose as a leader? Executives may be quick in giving answers related to achieving the company's goals, increasing shareholder value, and taking care of their employees. But how about your personal purpose? Why are you doing what you are doing? And is there alignment between what you do at work and what makes your life meaningful?
In the first episode of Second Crack - The Leadership Podcast, Martin Aldergard and Gerrit Pelzer discuss why exploring one's purpose matters for you as a leader - but also why it can be quite scary. We look at what questions leaders can ask to help align their individual purpose to their organization's and how this can help navigate change.
For more info, visit secondcrackleadership.com
Key Time Stamps
[00:38] Why this Podcast? We explore typical leadership challenges and dilemmas. Instead of giving generic “how-to” advice, we invite leaders to self-reflect.
[04:26] The leader's job is not to provide the answers, but to ask the right questions for which answers are found by the collective intelligence of the people.
[06:41] We need to put people at the center of organizational change. Instead of focusing on “processes”, leaders need to recognize the human side of transformation. Human beings don’t always act “rationally”, they act based on their emotions.
[09:55] A core leadership theme is to establish a purpose, a common sense of direction. A leader’s inner purpose needs to be aligned with the organization’s purpose. However, at times, even experienced leaders may experience a sense of loos of direction, loss of control.
[14:46] Leaders need to to stop and pause and identify potential misalignments between their personal and their organization’s purpose and direction. What is truly important in terms of your values, what you want to achieve, and where you are in life right now?
[19:29] Questions around purpose are not new. But people tend not take the time to sit down and think about it. We live in a world in which action is over-valued, and reflection may not look “productive”. However, reflection is prerequisite for the right action.
Reflection Questions:
How can I make the time available for reflection in my busy working life?
What is important to me? What is my purpose? Why am I doing what I'm doing?
Connect with Martin and Gerrit on LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/martinaldergard
www.linkedin.com/in/gerritpelzer