Did you know we only consciously use about 5% of our brains? Crazy right!? According to cognitive neuroscientists, we are conscious of only about 5 percent of our cognitive activity. The other 95 percent of brain activity that goes beyond our conscious awareness, called our subconscious mind, dictates the vast majority of our decisions, actions, emotions, behavior, thoughts, and thus our leadership.
Today on the Joy to Lead Podcast, we will be diving into how we can unlock our subconscious leadership so we can gain more control over our actions, behaviors and thought patterns to help our teams thrive.
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Your Untapped Subconscious Leadership
For so long I thought leadership was an action – a conglomeration of the behaviours that come out of me. All the while, my subconscious leader was left latent, untapped, underneath the surface. There was so much more of ME I could be bringing forth into my leadership.
See, we put 95% of our effort on controlling the 5% of our conscious brain activity. We focus on our behaviors – learning how-to’s, best practices, and the lists of things a leader DOES, instead of becoming leaders.
Inevitably, we eventually feel like we’re put into a box which leads to burnout, lost direction and vision – and we become the very micromanagers we always resented.
Start Unlocking Your Subconscious Leadership
Ninety-five percent of your self development must happen behind the scenes, under the surface. Growing as a leader is not the glamorous conversation about hiring, scaling or organizational structure that you may think leadership is.
It’s how do you manage yourself? How do you practice discipline and navigate hard things? How do you communicate when you’re uncomfortable and want to hide. Put 95% of your work into 95% of your leadership, and the rest will follow.
Cultivate Your Leadership as an Identity.
Learn to cultivate self-leadership so that you will learn to coach yourself and see the world and yourself in a new way. Once you begin to do that, the 5% that the world sees will change as a byproduct of that inward work.
Ready to Step Into Your Leadership?
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We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
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