How to go from Overwhelmed leader to A player in less than 3 months

Discover how Jacob went from Overwhelmed B player leader to A player in less than 3 months

^^^ that’s a big thing in the start up community, often, you’ve either got it or you don’t and I get it.

Things move fast in the start up world and you have to be ready for that.

Neuroscience teaches us something different though.

It teaches us that brains can change significantly and rapidly.

Everyone has potential and nobody has reached it.

Jacob was concerned that he was a B player himself.

He had good subject matter knowledge like many CPO’s but was perpetuating all the “poor leader” stereotypes.

Micromanage,
Not delegating,
‘Doing it himself’ when under time pressure
Working into the night
Shutting people out
Feeling constantly guilty
Feeling alone
Not looking after his health

It’s not like he didn’t know.

He knew what he should be doing all too well, he just couldn’t get himself to consistently do it.

It’s so bizarre how we constantly hand out advice as if that’s the problem. But in reality information is rarely the problem and it wasn’t for Jacob.

Under stress we result to habit not creativity and that’s what Jacob was doing. Defaulting to behaviours that served him as an Individual contributor in the past,

We needed to face his stressors one by one, understand them, remove the threat and create clear new strategies that suited the situation.

We did this by clearly mapping his current process, isolating EXACTLY where it wasn’t working for him, then constructing a new pattern.

Often we made very small adjustments but each moved him forward replacing the old habit as we went.

Once he understood the process and practised it with me he started applying it consistently to every challenge, obstacle or problem.

Pretty soon he was being singled out by the board, being asked to mentor other leaders and was teaching the systems to his team who were reducing their need for his help by the week.

As I said at the beginning, things move fast in the start up world, but if you learn and evolve at the same speed then you can handle anything…


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