Leaders Always Drive Change

Admittedly, I struggled deciding how to begin this first ever weekly Profound Minute.

On one hand I want this to be a casual, unassuming moment in time giving you a minute to reflect on one leadership idea and help you plan to practice it during your week.

On the other hand, this is the first post! And as any Profound Leader will tell you, how you begin an initiative sets the tone and trajectory of your relationship. So I feel the the pressure to begin with something intentional, thoughtful, and impactful.

Therefore it seems fitting to begin with this idea: Leaders always drive change.

Leaders always drive change.

Always.

Whether the changes are monumental like galvanizing corporate employees behind a new company vision, or subtle changes, such as coaching a colleague to experience opportunity in the midst of challenges. Change is always the result of profound leadership.

Which means the opposite is also true. Maintaining the status quo, keeping people satisfied or satiated is not a result of leadership. We don't lead people to stay the same. We lead them to make change.

That doesn't mean leadership can't be subtle, or savvy, or even seductive at times. But satiation is not a result of leadership.

• Manager-leaders change satiated employees into a driven workforce.

• Sales leaders change unknowing prospects into knowledgable product      champions.

• Executive leaders change task-driven business units into a vision-      driven organization.

• Leader-coaches change clients' mindsets from logarithmic to      exponential, from scarcity to abundance, and from fixed to growth.

Leaders always drive change. And since you are on the road to becoming a Profound Leader, this means it is imperative to get really good at understanding change, and to know specifically what changes you intend to drive in the work you do.

Take a Profound Minute: Can you name the changes you intend to impact this week? Can you describe them? What are the steps you need to take to drive that change?

If you can be intentional with your changes you're dabbling in the space of Profound Leadership. It is likely that you are impacting changes that you don't realize. When you DO realize them you'll be able to lead towards the change. And it will make your leadership more intentional, and therefore more impactful.

Kind of like my hope for this Profound Minute.

The goal of the Profound Minute is to get you thinking about leadership, profoundly. Deeply. Intentionally. So be aware that this weekly email is going to challenge you every Tuesday to take a one minute to focus on the kind of leader you are striving to be. I'm hoping it's Profound.

Thanks for being here.

G

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