• all the demands your different stakeholders are making?

• the many roles you must perform?

• having to meet tight and/or unrealistic timescales?

• the rules and demands you put on yourself?

• the many other challenges that come your way on a daily basis?

Without a doubt it is tough to be a leader in today’s world. We are continually being asked to do more with less. With constant changes and uncertainty, and with a complexity we have not faced before, it is easy to feel squeezed.

We tell ourselves that things will be better when - we have finished the project or delivered all the appraisals or met that deadline or …. (fill in the blank). Inevitably though, once that one thing has been finished, there’s always something else that is waiting to take its place.

Away from work we also have a personal life which often involves its own pressure and demands. This results in most of us forever chasing the eluded work-life balance and eventually resigning to the fact that we can’t have it all.

But what if I told you we can?

To conquer the challenges of today’s world we need to embrace new leadership techniques and tools, and expand our mindset.

Firstly, we need to remove our inherited definitions and regain clarity about what success means to us.

Secondly, we need to better understand ourselves and the obstacles which prevent us from achieving this success.

Thirdly, with this newfound understanding, we need to create a strategy to attain the desired result.

This whole process doesn’t have to take long, and the brilliant thing is that we can start building our muscles towards this new way of being before we have all the answers.

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