Developing a Leadership Lens (Ep.2)

Rising Tide Leadership Podcast: Simplifying the Complexities of Your Leadership Journey

Episode 2: Developing a Leadership Lens

“Everything that you see needs to be seen through the lens of leadership.” ~MO

What is a Leadership Lens? 

• The way you view life and relationships. 

Leadership Lens: Instinct or choice? 

Why is it important to recognize it is a choice? 

• The way that we view life depends on the activities that we engage in, and the people that we associate with.
• Leaders give up rights for responsibility.
• Leaders don’t make excuses. Leaders make it happen.

Reflection Question 1: “Am I viewing life through a leadership lens?”

Can anyone develop a leadership lens? 

• Short answer: Yes 
• Long answer:  If you are willing to take the next 20 years to change the way you think.

What are some other lenses that people commonly mistake for a leadership lens?

• The Manager Lens
  • Just because people listen to you and do what you say, does not mean that you are a leader.
  • “We manage numbers, but we lead people.” - Peter Drucker
  • Most people in positions of influence, are living in what John Maxwell calls the lowest level of leadership or “positional leadership.”

How to know whether you are leading or managing?

• When your people start coming to you for something that has nothing to do with your work relationship, you are on the precipice of influence and leadership.
• “We need to give, knowing that we will never be able to receive anything for the work that we put in.”

3 Ways to Develop a Leadership Lens

1. Become “others focused”.

• Have the best interest of your people in mind. 

1. Think of yourself less.

•  “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.” - CS Lewis

1. Make it a way of life.

• “You can fool your superiors but you can’t full your subordinates.” - Unknown

Reflection Question 2: Are you willing to change your viewpoint so that seeing life through a leadership lens is a way of life?

MO’s Final Thoughts: 

Start making subtle changes. Start thinking about others in everything you do. Start thinking about yourself less. Learn to live everyday this way and it will become a way of life. 

 

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