PODCAST EPISODE № 61

You Can Only Lead to the Level of Your Personal Development

by Anita Charlot

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Leadership didn’t come naturally to me.

There were opportunities for me to step forward and high school. However, I chose to play it safe and not face the imaginary rejection. In college, things started to shift. First, being the captain of the dance team. Not only was this my first leadership position, but it was also the first opportunity I had to coach other women.

After that, the next role was President of Student Government, and those two led to being chosen as platoon sergeant in basic training.

Over the next several years, I would hone my leadership skills by managing people from all walks of life, with different personalities, religious and political beliefs, lifestyles, backgrounds, and those with generational trauma, and those inflicting racial trauma.

Join me inside the episode as I share with you my idea of what being a leader is.

See you inside…

What You Learn:

What makes a leader, what defines a leader
My personal journey into leadership
How a team suffers under poor leadership
The importance of leading to your level of personal development

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Episode Transcript

Leadership didn’t come naturally to me.

There were opportunities for me to step forward and high school. However, I chose to play it safe and not face the imaginary rejection. In college, things started to shift. First, being the captain of the dance team. Not only was this my first leadership position, but it was also the first opportunity I had to coach other women. After that, the next role was President of Student Government, and those two led to being chosen as platoon sergeant in basic training.
Over the next several years, I would hone my leadership skills by managing people from all walks of life, with different personalities, religious and political beliefs, lifestyles, backgrounds, and those with generational trauma, and those inflicting racial trauma.

Join me inside the episode as I share with you my idea of what being a leader is. 
See you inside.
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In the introduction, I shared with you the different roles that I had in leadership early on in my career. So, if we add to the mix that of navigating and climbing the ladder in the military and corporate environment as a single Black mother, who was also a domestic abuse survivor, while getting multiple degrees and building a coaching business, you can begin to see why coaching leaders comes naturally to me.

Let’s not forget the years of personal development work, learning from mentors, great managers, courses, books, and workshops that helped me to grow through limiting behaviors, understand my insecurities and provide tools to help me manage my way through them.

Regardless of what I’ve experienced in the past, if I did not continue taking a good hard look at myself and working with my support team to continue my personal development, I would not be the woman you see here today.

As a leader, you are responsible for continuing to develop personally and professionally. Being a leader means wearing multiple hats. At times, you may need to play the role of coach, therapist, cheerleader, motivator, healer, and sometimes even parent. When you decide to become a leader though, you must recognize that it’s no longer about you. It’s about the people you serve.

Hold on, let me say that again.

When you decide to become a leader, it’s no longer about you. It’s about the people you serve.

By stepping into the leadership role, you accept the responsibility of being the best person you can be for the people under your command.

So you already know that I’m prior military. Well, imagine if I were trying to lead my soldiers into battle. Would they want a leader that did not have their… let’s just say “ish” together, or a leader they could trust with their lives? Corporate should be the same way.

As a leader, you can’t afford not to be there for your team. And your leadership will either lead them to follow you or to abort the mission. People always say that you don’t leave a job, you leave a manager, right? So if you are not up to the task of being a leader that people are willing to follow, then you will be the type of leader that people are looking to run away from. And now, I’m not saying you don’t deserve to have a bad day or you will always have to be strong, but if you are a leader, if you want to be a leader, then I need you to get up off your bottom and do what you need to do in order to develop in all areas so that your team doesn’t suffer.

A team will suffer due to bad leadership. No one is going to follow you. No one is going to accept what you’re putting down or pick up what you’re putting down as we say, if they don’t trust you, if they don’t see that you can lead them.

And from a leadership perspective, if you are managing people on your team who are used to being leaders in their area, experts in their area, they are certainly not going to stick around if they are not able to function in that arena, or if they can’t learn something from you.

So you can only lead to the level of your personal development.

Do I need to repeat that? I’ll do it again.

You can only lead to the level of your personal development.

Those who make personal development a priority will not follow a leader that does not do the same.

So I have a question for you. First, a statement than a question.

You are the example.

Here’s the question:

Would you follow you?

Take some time to journal through this and let me know what comes up for you. If you need help, you know where to find me.

Until next time…

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You Can Only Lead to the Level of Your Personal Development

PODCAST EPISODE № 61

You Can Only Lead to the Level of Your Personal Development

by Anita Charlot

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PODCAST EPISODE № 61

You Can Only Lead to the Level of Your Personal Development

by Anita Charlot

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