Leadership Insomnia — 3 Steps to Growth Mindset

Leadership insomnia is a mixed state of mind. It limits leaders’ ability to function as a leader. In this state, a leader finds herself/himself bogged down with unclear objectives, conflicting priorities, and unchecked ego. It blinds the leader from ground reality and inhibits clarity of purpose!

With the heightened uncertainty caused by the pandemic, a number of things are keeping leaders up at the night. The pandemic has forced everyone to adopt a new way of working, a new way of engaging customers and doing business.

For some leaders, this new way of working is very new and fundamentally different than the traditional way of doing business. It creates frustration and limiting beliefs and biases results in an artificial sense of urgency. Expecting people to adopt the new way of working instantly and start producing results, is a guaranteed recipe for disappointment.

This is the time when everyone is learning — how to work from home, how to be effective, how to effectively community and collaborate, and so on. This is the time when leaders are needed the most to set the tone, create an environment of trust and psychological safety. It’s not the time when you start rattling your frustration on your people or start asking for frequent status updates (just because you believe people are not working from home). If anything the data tells us in the last 12 months of working from home scenarios — people have been working long hours, the lines between work and home has been blurred…