As a Visionary, what's on your "wish list" of things you'd love for an Integrator to handle for you?
Whether you're looking for your perfect Integrator, or you've just gotten them on board, the Wish List™ is an amazing tool to help you make this combination work – to make it really powerful. It can even be an extra boost for a Visionary/Integrator combination that is already well established.
I think we could all agree that being open and honest is important in our personal lives. Our friends and our family members value it, and it helps us build relationships and establish trust with the people we care about.
And much like our personal lives, being open and honest can have a strong impact on the people in our professional lives, such as our employees, our customers, and our community.
I have already discussed how being open and honest builds the foundation of your business. Openness and honesty are used to communicate your business’s Core Values, and provide a list of expectations your employees live by.
But in addition to building a foundation, being open and honest plays a fundamental role in helping us resolve issues.
When you’re stuck, it can leave you feeling frustrated and overwhelmed. It happens when you, your department, or your company isn’t growing anymore. It also happens when you’re growing too fast and everyone is struggling to keep up.
This is a normal part of organizational growth—think of it as growing pains. In EOS, we call this Hitting the Ceiling.
Acknowledging when you’ve hit the ceiling is vital, because once you and your team have acknowledged it, it just becomes an issue that needs to be solved.
Leadership isn’t about a title or a position. It’s a mentality — an approach to how you do your job.
Leaders don’t just give orders. In fact, someone can lead without ever taking charge of another person.
Leaders are people who take initiative. They’re the ones who don’t wait for someone else to step up. They hold others accountable and hold themselves to the same high standards.
You can develop leaders at all levels of your company and teach them to groom future leaders.
For any of us who are parents, the process of “letting go” of our children can be one of the most difficult experiences with which to deal. We’ve birthed them, we’ve fed them, we’ve clothed them, we’ve gotten furious with them, we’ve had compassion for them, we’ve held them in our arms when things got scary or confusing, and celebrated many a success with them. We’ve made an enormous investment of our time, our effort, and our hearts.
But at some point, we have to let them go. They are ready to face the world without us; to create experiences, success, and resolve issues on their own.
As well intended as it might be, if we hold on too long or too tight, they won’t grow.
