The Habit of You First Leadership

Key takeaways:

• Start every interaction with the other person in mind.

• Lead with questions.

• Focus on the other person.

Transcript:

Speaker 1

Now the problem is, if you're like me, you're going to be more naturally self-centered. And to become a leader, the trajectory often is that we believe we're good enough to be a leader. And so the trajectory moves really, really quickly towards self-sitterness. So let me give you a suggestion to implement the habit of you first leadership. Every simply do this, start every interaction with the other person in mind. Anytime you interact with someone, and this is not easy to do because we tend to start every interaction with either ourself in mind or with our leadership agenda in mind. You can see it all the way down into written communication. Let's say you're going to send an email and you even want to appreciate someone. In your email, most people start with eye-centered communication. They'll say, I want to tell you thank you. And that's starting with an eye. What you want to do is start with a you. You want to start the email and say, you are an amazing leader. I want to tell you, thank you. Start with you every time you can. Start with them in mind. And one way to do this is to lead with questions. It can be an informal question like, how is your weekend? How's your kids doing the game? Or if you're in a one-on-one, you can be more specific and you can ask things like, what's something in your life outside the office that you're excited about? Or like I'll say, as a pastor, hey, what's one way I could be praying for you to show that we care what you want to do is you want to start every interaction, every meeting, every time you Can with them in mind. And when you do this, you'll find that you're listening more than talking.

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast • 8 Habits of Great Leaders, Part 1