Are you doubting your leadership ability?
Feeling burned out?
I know you. I’ve been you, and I’ve worked with you. You’re a mid-senior level manager or small-medium sized business owner. You’re passionate about your industry, your products and services. You want to give your team a giant hug for hanging in there. You like to move fast.
You’re normally super-motivated.
But, OMG, the challenges you’ve been facing this year! The need to generate more money pronto. The near-daily budget examination when income is relatively static. Expectations from your boss or management team that you’ll produce magical results, regardless of external constraints.
Keeping your team – who feel overwhelmed trying to achieve targets – motivated and not leaving. On the surface, there’s a lot of energy going out but you’re not feeling like folks are engaged or focused, and KPI’s reflect this.
You want new ideas that will ‘wow’ the management team, customers, and other stakeholders but there’s no time for coming up with, let alone nurturing, new ideas. And, even though you know there’s a need to change things up, your team has a history of resisting change.
Like you, I had sleepless nights and worked long hours when facing these kinds of challenges. It’s 3am and you’re wondering if you’re worthy of this leadership role, whether you’re the right captain for this ship, and whether you can make a meaningful contribution to the sector you care so deeply about.
Are you feeling burned out just reading this?
Listening to the executives I’ve coached, and my own experience, tells me that self-doubt can creep in when things aren’t going well. Sometimes it’s justified, and you know when that is. Sometimes, though, it’s just down to circumstance – when this happens, we tend to take it personally.
Are you shouting, “Well, what can I do about it?” about now?
It’s important to get to the heart of the problem before moving forward
You may be wondering how creative problem-solving – the area in which I coach and train – can help. Let me explain. The first phase of creatively solving problems is planning. Although most people get excited about the action phases – brainstorming, choosing the winner, and implementing the resulting idea – it’s vital to get the planning right. In Light Bulb Thinking™ coaching, we go to the heart of the problem before we move forward. What’s the problem, exactly? Is it the right problem? What input do we need? We also check and adjust mindset: Are we thinking clearly? What’s getting in the way that we need to deal with first? This is typically when the leaders I work with express feeling unsure of their leadership ability, question their beliefs, look for clarity on goals, and feel the pressure to find a magic solution.
How I solve these challenges
I have a leadership background. I speak your language and know intimately some of the challenges you face.
When you work with me, you get the benefit of 20 years’ experience training and coaching leaders, and specializing in creative problem-solving techniques that will repeatedly help you and your team quickly and successfully address problems.
If you want a system for solving problems in the Here and Now, and to discover what you can do differently going forward, you might be interested in Light Bulb Thinking™ executive coaching. To learn more, contact me at Ellia@ThePotentialCenter.com to arrange a call.
With the right support, any individual, team, and organization can learn creative ways to solve problems. I’m hired by visionary leaders to bring serious fun and creative problem-solving to the workplace. Using Light Bulb Thinking™, we create a kickass culture of innovation.
The Light Bulb Thinking™ framework demystifies and simplifies the creative problem-solving and innovation processes, and opens the door to fresh ideas and stronger teams.
Would you like to see what tapping into creative potential could look like for your team or organization? Arrange an exploratory call - email me at Ellia@ThePotentialCenter.com.
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