Your organization has a vision statement. Do you have one for yourself as a leader?

In this third episode of The Leadership Shift series, I'm talking about the vision – answering the question, "Who am I becoming?" You can't grow toward a leader you haven't yet described. I walk you through the same future-self exercise I use with my clients (and revisit for myself), built around my three keys to leadership magic: character, confidence, and connection.

Then we look at the gap between your current self and your future self. Skill gaps are usually the easiest to close. It's the confidence and mindset gaps where most of us get stuck – and where so much of the magic lies. I share common limiting beliefs leaders hold, a simple way to test them, and three questions you can answer today to start painting your own picture.

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Remember when Disney's Aladdin decided to become a prince? He figured out what a prince was supposed to look like, wear, and sound like, threw himself a grand parade, and played the part. And it worked, for a while. But keeping up that costume every single day was exhausting.

I see a version of this with new leaders all the time. We find a boss or mentor we admire and try to lead exactly like them. It works until it doesn't feel like us anymore.

In part two of my Leadership Shift series, I'm talking about the foundation: really understanding yourself. I share the difference between copying a leader and being inspired by one, my own story of trying to lead like a mentor early in my HR career, and the four areas of self-awareness I come back to again and again: your values, your natural strengths and preferences (and their shadow sides), how you show up under pressure and how you land on others, and your mindset and beliefs.

You'll leave with a few questions to help you name what you value most in how you lead, the strength people count on you for, and what it costs when that strength goes too far.

Grab my free Discover Your Values worksheet under the Resources tab at angie-robinson.com, and if you'd like to do this work with support, learn more about The Leadership Shift through the link in the show notes.

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You got the promotion. You have the new title, maybe a team, and a whole lot of "good luck, you've got this." But what actually changed?

This episode kicks off a four-part series on the shift every first-time leader makes, from "I've been promoted into a leadership role" to "I actually am a leader." Today I'm starting with stage one: understanding what's different now.

I talk about why the very thing that got you promoted can be the thing that gets in your way, the most common shifts from individual contributor to leader (doing to enabling, peer to leader, having the answers to asking the questions, individual wins to team wins), and the challenges I hear most from new leaders. I also share my own first leadership shift, at 19, as a shift leader at McDonald's.

You'll walk away with three simple questions to help you name what to let go of and what to lean into, because awareness is the pixie dust.

Enjoy!

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Show Notes: Episode 246 Show Notes

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