7d • Wins & Breakthroughs
Understanding the Role
What role are you playing in that thing you are doing?
Frustrated, tired, cold, sweating, hungry... doesn't matter - the role needs your focus and your execution based on what the role requires. If we do not understand the role we cannot execute.
How does imposter syndrome fit into this?
It can be overwhelming to assume a role and fight feelings of inadequacy. If we are going to show up and fulfill responsibility we need to understand the role and disconnect from any negative talk about who we are and who we are not yet. We are becoming and that includes failures.
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An example of these for me that I shared today on the coffee meeting was that I am dealing with a leadership issue of my own. I have found a few things that have done and the way they are playing out that I don't like the way they are going. I realized that these things are continuing because I am not leading correctly in a way that will see to it that these things get addressed and handled by those persons that are responsible for them.
What I had initially realized is that I was not delegating effectively. Results are proving that the standard had not been set well enough and if there was to be any improvement I would need to do something new, something unfamiliar to myself. I was going to have to learn yet again. Learning is not unfamiliar - I have just forgotten that learning must actually be continual. Most of the learning in leadership for me up to this point was in how to care for a team, how to lead with empathy, how to be professional, how to be helpful, how to be available. This time the learning is a new thing on how leading is done best. I need to better understand my role as the leader for the team. I am the bottleneck preventing the next improvement. I also believe that I have been masking the "thing" and making up for it in other ways. Well, the "thing" continues to wear me out - literally tired and frustrated. It's not my fault, rather it's my responsibility to do something with this.
But Kevin, aren't you being too hard on yourself? Well, let's go over something that's not been stated. Most of the successes under my leadership have been simply due to discovery and implementation of mostly just 2 things:
1 process improvement or even just creation of a process to solve a problem
2 integration of team members to understand how process hand-offs will and do work
I have struggled for 3 years in my current role with things that i carried around in a bag like ball and chain because I did not have the understand of how to improve it. I didn't complain but I can sure feel the weight. I didn't blow up on people but I've been mad and forced myself to believe that I needed to be more patient. I've actually maybe built a honey empire and probably am seeing outcomes that are less than ideal simply because I wasn't doing anything substantial to impact it and force improvement. I now have to pick up that responsibility and take action. That action cannot be toward anyone because what I have identified was not just the issues repeating, it was that I needed to conduct myself as a leader in a better way. Like a rudder on a boat, I'm not steering correctly and we are bumping into the dock repeatedly.
After sharing on the call I sat today and worked through some things. I have been able to gain perspective and yes, most definitely I am responsible for where we are. I have put first steps into play and expect to see new improvements begin immediately. This is not major changes, it's minor realignment for everyone. The realignment is my priority assignment to me. As manager and leader I must cast vision and speak clearly on expectations. Thank you guys for your support.
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Understanding the Role
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