Looking for a confidential space to discuss your current challenges and opportunities? Join the Real Leaders Impact Collaborative, a peer-to-peer group model designed to provide time-starved, purpose-driven CEOs with a high level of support from a group of genderbalanced, diverse, values-aligned peers. WINTER 2022 / REAL-LEADERS.COM 29 LEADERSHIP QUICK FIX Face Up to Your Truth I’ve heard the phrase “… this year has been a lot harder than I expected …” from more than a few CEOs of late. As such, it might be worth taking a few minutes to ask some sound questions at this point in 2022. Remember that your businesses are alive, evolving, fluid things. As much as we’d like to see them as walking a linear path that we, as CEOs, have full control over, that is not the case. So, as your business continues its (hopefully) merry way, consider these questions and see what emerges. They are not soft-ball questions, but rather ones that sometimes we might prefer to avoid. As ever, despite their sharpish nature, they are shared in the spirit of care, support, and enablement: • What did not play out as you expected it to, and where did your hypothesis go wrong? • What is the true, holistic health of your business right now? • What truth about your business, or about yourself, might you be avoiding? • What bias is in play that might be skewing your objectivity when it comes to big decisions? • What is your business calling on you to become, as the CEO? (changes, growth, what to let go of, what to mitigate about yourself) None of the above questions will likely have ready answers. And, in fact, one or two might not even be relevant right now. But at least one will have meat on its bones that warrants inquiry. I hope they are helpful. Jonathan-Rowan Belchers is a global CEO leadership coach dedicated to building leaders of distinction and kindling new thoughts and innovative ideas for leadership roles and opportunities for selfreflection.
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