Leadership Workshop:
The Journey of Not Knowing©

The most challenging aspect of being a leader is being comfortable with the discomfort of not knowing. That ability lies at the root of the leadership mindset.

The leader has the job of setting the strategic direction of the organization and bringing the others along to realize that direction. Setting the direction requires the leader to look beyond the immediate business to see what is going on in the world around it and the possibilities that world has for strategic growth.

The challenge is that there is no guarantee that the leader has interpreted the world correctly or that the direction he or she chooses is a good one. Only time and effort will tell.

To be a leader, one needs to be able to navigate through uncertainty. For many, it proves a scary place, scary enough to cause them to revert to various safe, tactical moves or to skip the leadership role entirely. To succeed as a leader, however, one must learn to move through the fear towards creating and delivering on a bigger idea. That is the definition of leadership.