Leadership Coaching with Dani G

These days it isn’t easy leading ourselves at work, let alone a team of people. Trying to keep up with the rate of change and overall workload can feel like an impossible task. Reactions to the ever-changing environment manifest as anxiety, burnout, and disconnection.

Leadership coach, Dani G, and I had a great discussion about this topic and many others facing leaders and knowledge workers today. Her guidance is that we, as humans, desire to connect our work to purpose. When we have purposeful work, time flies by and we feel a sense of personal fulfillment. We are willing to commit “discretionary effort” – time above and beyond what’s required – to our work.

Work is important, but it isn’t all of life. We also dive into how we can build and maintain a positive identity and sense of self-worth that travels with us, regardless of our job title.

A leader’s job is to create this clarity of purpose, the mission, so their teams can connect to it at a personal level. Organizations that do this well perform better and create a healthy environment for those who work there. Check out the full episode for more.