“Most leaders want to lead at scale and with ease.”
This insight triggered Muriel Wilkins—a fellow executive coach and one of the best in our industry I know—to analyze what holds leaders back from achieving this ambition.
What she found was that many leaders are held back from reaching their full potential by one or more “Hidden Blockers”.
These hidden blockers are:
- I need to be involved
- I need it done now
- I know I’m right
- I can’t make a mistake
- If I can do it, so can you
- I can’t say no
- I don’t belong here
These blockers almost always stem from beliefs we adopted somewhere in our private or professional lives. Most often, we are not aware of them, and that might be a problem because what served us well in the past won’t necessarily serve us now or in the future.
Muriel Wilkins wrote a thought-provoking and highly recommended book about this topic called ‘Leadership Unblocked: Break Through the Beliefs that Limit Your Potential’. This book not only describes what these blockers are and how we develop them, but, more importantly, how we can address them through a three-step approach: “uncover,” “unpack,” and “unblock.”
I recently had the pleasure of having a conversation with Muriel about her book. In our conversation, we discussed:
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