You're wide awake at 2AM again, staring at the ceiling. Your mind racing thinking about your packed day---the meetings, deadlines, and everything else competing for your time and attention. Your day hasn't even started yet, and you already feel overwhelmed and stressed by the weight of it all. You feel stuck and want a change.
You're in the car headed to the office, mentally preparing for the morning daily standup. Your team is smart and capable, but they aren't a collaborative unit. You spend more time managing the silos and conflict than you do mentoring. You’re the bottleneck because every decision eventually lands back on your desk.
You’re playing defense against economic uncertainty with a pit in your stomach. Your team is busy, but you aren't sure they're busy with the right things. Progress feels chaotic, and "hope" has become your primary strategy. You want to stay positive, but you feel anything but. You feel uncertain, alone and unsure of what to do.
You close your laptop after a virtual session with your business coach. Sitting there, you feel good, optimistic even. You're grateful you're no longer dealing with all this craziness alone. You have the support and structure to help you focus, plan, make decisions and move forward in the face of uncertainty. No more of those "2AM meetings" with yourself. You've got this, and you know it!
Your Slack feed is a success stream, not a fire alarm. Your team is resolving conflicts without you. You’ve created an environment that operates on trust and ownership, without your constant involvement and oversight. You feel proud, knowing it's giving you the freedom to increase your impact and disconnect more.
You have an actionable, strategic roadmap that aligns every person in your company toward a clear direction. Your team is accountable, executing it daily, and driving key results. Uncertainty is still there, but you have the structure to make deliberate decisions in the face of it. You’re playing offense again.
Prioritize the leadership development of you and all of your leaders so you can confidently and effectively lead your team and company through any challenges now and into the future.
Cultivate an environment for your teams to collaborate, build trust, resolve conflict, and take ownership so they can consistently execute on the strategy and drive results.
Embrace a focused approach that helps you activate, align, and hold your team accountable to executing the company's strategy and achieving its objectives, goals, and vision.
Josh Ellison has been a business coach and facilitator for the past 10+ years, and has worked with hundreds of leaders and managers along the way. His mission when founding Leader Circles was to help busy leaders and managers like you integrate personal and professional growth and support into your daily lives with minimal friction and maximum impact.
It's important to note that Josh has been where you are. He's often been called a "leader of leaders" or "the CEO whisperer". Josh has been in leadership and management roles for over 20 years, and understands and empathizes with the weight that you are carrying everyday, and how lonely it can feel at times.
When Josh isn't working with leaders, he enjoys walking with his wife, Kirsten, hanging out with his adult children, savoring a delicious over-priced coffee, or listening to some jazz while sipping an old fashioned with his favorite bourbon.
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