How to Build the Courage to Raise Your Hand for Leadership

Courage is not about not having fear. Courage is having fear and doing something anyway.

At a recent leadership intensive, we split a room full of leaders into teams and asked who wanted to lead. Almost nobody raised their hand.

These are leaders, at a leadership event, and still most of them sat on their hands.

In this episode you'll learn;

- Why so many capable leaders avoid raising their hand for the role, and what is actually happening underneath the excuses like I'm too busy or somebody else would do it better

- The real difference between courage and confidence, and why waiting until you feel ready is the one thing guaranteed to keep you waiting forever

- Why people want to be led by someone who actually wants to lead, and what a reluctant leader costs their team even when they are technically doing the job

- The specific moments in leadership that demand courage, from having the hard conversation you keep avoiding to simply saying I don't know, and why each one builds the muscle for the next

- A story about a cold call I avoided for four straight days, and the one I almost avoided the same way, and what changed when I didn't

YOUR CHALLENGE:

This week, find the one place where you are playing it safe, whether that is a conversation you are avoiding, a hand you have not raised, or a risk you keep putting off, and do the thing anyway.

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