Character
Steve Farber
Greater Than Yourself
Members only. Recorded April 13, 2011
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Who is this workout for?
Project Managers, HR Professionals, Division Leaders, Department Managers, Team Leaders, Team Members, Executives, L&D Professionals.
Element: Character
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What you learn.
• Learn to love the fear and exhilaration that comes with leadership.
• Get past just going through the motions of leadership.
• Generate passion and commitment by helping people define and redefine, day after day, what the higher purpose is.
• Do what you love in the service of people who love what you do.
Why this event?
Extreme Leadership is intensely personal and intrinsically scary. You are striving to change the nature of things, and that's a scary endeavor because you are asking yourself and others to give up the familiar. It is scary because you have no guarantee of a positive outcome. It is scary because you don't know how you are personally going to be judged; your credibility is on the line.
There is no way -- absolutely no way, therefore -- to participate in an authentic leadership experience without fear. To get past the fear, you have to be committed to something Greater Than Yourself.
Why it makes a difference.
We've been conditioned to believe that fear is bad. And while it's true that fear can save your life or keep you from doing something stupid, avoiding it can also keep you from doing something great, from learning something new, and from growing as a human being. Fear is a natural part of growth, and since growth, change and revolution are all on the Extreme Leader's agenda, fear comes with the territory.
To put it bluntly: if you're using all the buzzwords and reading all the latest leadership books, and holding forth at every meeting on the latest management fads, but you're not experiencing that visceral churning in your gut, and you're not scaring yourself every day, and you're not feeling that OhSh**! Moment as regularly as clockwork, then you are not doing anything significant -- let alone changing the world -- and you are certainly not leading anyone else.
