How to Gain Value from Your Happiness and Expand Your Leadership Influence

Many coaches, consultants, and managers experience eureka moments infrequently during their careers. When we accomplish at work, in whatever field of endeavor, feelings of happiness and pride result. A good coach, coach, consultant, or manager will relish his or her accomplishments, but great leaders profit from their accomplishments.

A peak work experience is defined by the contribution or benefit made to others. The contribution might be the next best software application, or the gracious service rendered by your local barista. Stunning failure also adds to contribution, paving the way for future innovations to lead others successfully.

Critical reflection on accomplishments calls to mind the conventional and less practiced mode of leading from strength. You can feel energy increase in a room when a colleague describes how she accomplished what others thought impossible, or when another proudly describes achievement despite resource scarcity. When a manager or consultant reflects critically on her abilities, she invites feedback from others.

Imagine influencing and leading more effectively from your current role, without the need for promotion or a job change. Reflection, combined with insight, promote authentic growth and development. Even marginal increases in our ability to call forth more of who we will yield substantial gains in meaning, productivity, and relevance to others important to your team's vision, mission, and goals.

Measured increases in confidence promote your ability to work effectively. Amid managing all our priorities, we can how to profit from strength and create personal and professional progress.

Challenge yourself to taking five actions that will promote your growth and contribute to your sense of accomplishment. Your wellbeing will improve, and you will direct the significance of your career, all the same demonstrating the "career care" that you encourage. There's great profit in feeling good about who we are and what we do.

Be Present

Any critical reflection of career opportunity requires the presence of mind to think critically. Dreams and ideas of desirable futures are worthy of your consideration and need the footing of truthful assessments and actions. Start by identifying your concerns and worries, and imagine a future when those worries are diminished, eliminated, or transformed. Have the presence of mind and gut-checking ability to figure out what makes your tick, and what makes others tick in your presence. Self-aware people welcome others, eager to profit from new relationships and connections. Attentiveness and genuine interest often get shortchanged by the press of the next meeting or an unexpected crisis. It's difficult to hide genuine interest and enthusiasm, even in corporate settings!

Get Involved

Introspection serves great purposes in organization career development. Introspection can help in charting goals and developing action plans. But critical assessment and the seeds of all progress are informed and developed by connection. You can move from attending to participating in a few easy moves. First, prepare for your audience. Next, ask a sincere question and take a note. Next, make sure that. your voice lets others know that they have been heard. Acknowledging others as in the process of becoming development, is a critical step to help teams and groups progress. Don't sit on the sidelines and inform your actions with the support of others who share excellence as a value.

Plan and Design Your Work

Brilliance is a rare product of serendipity. Rather, achievement and progress are usually the result of un-noticed hours, weeks, and months of preparation. Establishing meaningful and sound relationships with others provides long-term value, as understanding increases effective teamwork and collaboration. Work designs that involve others are best made by including others. Don't leave desired work to chance if you want to help a colleague or team member to grow. Design promotes creative learning and result in improved or innovative approaches to growth.

Find Engaging Work

Most managers and consultants carry a portfolio of required and desirable work. Finding career growth and meaning arises from a blend of both types of task activity. A natural inclination to endeavor promotes satisfaction and happiness. All work can carry meaning and it's important to recognize the role of privilege. Privilege can blind us from building and belonging to communities and groups desiring meaningful progress. But, often, it's in discretionary work that we find our traps and pathways to progress. One of my associates that diamonds arise because of polishing and shaping. Meaningful work is a great gift that you have the power to generate for others.

Reflect and Progress

Do you have rituals to recognize your accomplishments? When you're happy and satisfied with your work outcomes, what do you like to do? Do you celebrate with a brisk walk or treadmill run? What about a fabulous meal? When everything is flowing at work, savor the moment, not through idle languish, but through celebration followed by reflection. The best reflection creates alternatives, allowing you choice between sets of action or inaction. Choosing to selectively develop skills results in greater congruency, aligning your ideas with your actions.

Each career success presents a challenge of revisiting and potentially recreating a career. Success shouldn't be defined as progression from one level to another but as the progression from less to more engaging work, profiting our career and those of others near you. Real career growth results in the extension of professional influence. Influential people are those guiding and shaping organizations of the future. How will you be counted to deliver on your strengths and to lead in your profession?

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