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Shedding Your Coat and Habits

George Metanias

Blue skies, a slight breeze and 72 degrees—a perfect spring day here in Denver to sit outside and enjoy lunch. Our President, Stacey Cunningham had just flown in from very dreary and snowy Philadelphia. We sat, soaking up the sun and warmth as we ate, brainstormed and strategized. You all know this feeling, no matter where you live. That feeling that comes with each new season, especially a warm spring day after a brutally snowy and cold winter. The excitement of change, the newness of seeing the sun again and feeling that nothing is impossible. For me, spring tends to bring out a feeling of optimism, starting fresh and being willing to take on a challenge.

One challenge that many of us jump into this time of year with zeal is spring-cleaning. We exuberantly gather our cleaning supplies, make our to do lists and launch into sprucing up our homes, yards and garages. This right of passage into spring makes us feel focused, organized and renewed.

Just like with our closets and attics, our leadership style may also benefit from a spring-cleaning. Ask yourself–is it time to shed some bad habits, pack away some behaviors cluttering your effectiveness or spruce up your leadership approach?

This time of the year is a great time to get out and take inventory of what your doing well, areas that may need some work, as well as some potential habits that might need to be broken. Spring is a great excuse to get out of your winter rut and renew your commitment to leadership excellence.

So, just like when we spring clean our homes you will need the right tools (cleaning supplies) at your disposal to do a top-notch job.  Two tools that come to mind are a 360 evaluation and our revolutionary TalMetrics assessment.

A 360 evaluation will allow you to take stock of how others see you—your strengths, challenges and areas to development. 360’s can be as simple as asking a few trusted advisors for some honest and candid feedback to working with an Executive Coach who can gather detailed data from a multitude of sources and then help you put a plan in place to truly impact your performance.

While 360’s give you great perspective on “what” you do, TalMetrics can give you the insight on “why” you do the things you do. This tool allows you to look at your actions from three vantage points—how you think (why do you make the choices and decisions you do) to what makes you tick (what motivates you) to how you show up (the behaviors others experience and see when they interact with you).

Couple these two “cleaning supplies” together and you have a powerful agent to refine your leadership skills, elevate your capabilities and rid yourself of some of the bad habits you may have developed “over the winter.”

So get out there and enjoy spring and continue to bloom as a leader.

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One Response to Shedding Your Coat and Habits

  1. Steve Conto says:

    Spring cleaning and 360 degree approach is great if it is done right. Many times it is not. When we spring clean we may still hold on things that are still junk for WE still see value in them while others do not. Same in how we perform in our professional life. With the 360 degree approach we tend to go north, meaning our compass goes where we’ll get the most possible feedback. This is the greatest downfall of managers for that they surround themselves with people that like them. This can hide the serious shortcomings of being a great leader for they will tell you only what you want to hear instead of what you need to hear in order to stay friends with you.

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