Balance and productivity in leadership are crucial. Finding easy ways to stress-proof your leaders so they can feel more balanced and be more productive matters.
The Guide below gives you 52 pick-and-choose “tips” that will allow you a creative way to do that. Or, use it yourself.
These tips (practices) and the accompanying self-directed coaching are designed to stress-proof those who use them. By that I don’t mean they will be stress-free. Nobody is.
But I can tell you that my clients report they are more organized, more productive, and far less stressed since they began to turn more and more of these simple practices into habits.
What you have here is a practical “everyday tool” that you can put out as “a challenge,” or turn into “a positive program” for your leaders or workforce.
It will help at work. It will benefit at home. It will improve their contribution in other community endeavors.
Oftentimes a leader's stress is compounded by simple practices they could be doing, but that have been neglected or become sloppy over time. Encourage them to get those back.
To benefit from this guide you have to be intentional. Just reading it won't do you any good. Applying even one of the practices, will.
For every practice you feel is important to you RIGHT NOW, you will find five days of self-coaching exercises.
Pick one practice that seems most relevant to your situation and begin working on it. Work on it until it becomes a habit. Every good practice you put in place will stress-proof you.
Small wins add up. They will help you to avoid burnout. And, they will reintroduce balance and productivity in leadership in a fresh way.
These are from my book, 52 Solutions for Those Who Need a 25 Hour Day. You don't need to buy the book. It's all here, and more. Special thanks to Sandi Martin, who helped above and beyond with the original book.
You want to focus your improvement efforts in the right direction.
No matter what you feel you need to work on to regain balance and productivity in leadership, practicing the basics is a must.
This is a self-paced, self-coaching “program” about everyday habits, the ones you might have drifted away from. If applied, they will help you in regaining balance and productivity in leadership. This isn't about speed or brilliance. It's about regaining control of YOUR time, energy and confidence.
Reducing stress by creating some easy-to-do wins in your workday will create space to work on solutions to those “larger” things that contribute to overload and burnout. This won’t solve burnout by itself. But it is one part of the equation.
Paying attention to a small number of basic things that made you successful in the first place will help regain focus, confidence and control, and set you up for greater wins. It will contribute to regaining or enhancing balance and productivity for leaders.
Work at your own pace on putting simple strategies back in place that will help you regain efficient, productive and effective work patterns.
Regaining even a few good practices of balance and productivity in leadership will reduce stress and bring the satisfaction of creating some meaningful wins, when having a win is a real boost.
The list above isn't a fancy time management system. It's a list of everyday habits that leaders, executives and professionals who want to do well, put into practice each and every day.
You may have gotten away from some (or many) of these practices. And, while it is not the key source of your stress, it is a contributing factor. I've found that paying attention to things that ARE within your control, plays a big role in rebuilding hope and resilience.
Every one of these habits or strategies come right out of my work with clients over the past many years of executive and leadership performance coaching.
This structure will provide you a different area to work on, on a weekly basis. A small change in one area can result in significant positive change across a broad range of life and leadership areas.
Regaining balance and productivity in leadership isn't mythical. It's deliberate and achievable.
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