High-Performance Leadership
Leadership is HARD. There are a gazillion books and e-books and newsletters and X accounts and Instagram accounts and influencers and people telling you what to do and what not to do and who did it right and who’s wrong and who you should follow and who you should avoid and pretty soon you have a run-on sentence of conflicting information where you scream at yourself “I don’t know where to turn or stop or start!”
Take a breath. There’s one person you should listen to….YOU. Yes, YOU.
Now, I’m going to be a hypocrite for a split second, but hear me out. Below I’ve linked my High-Performance Leadership Framework to download and help guide you, but if I could give you just one piece of advice, just follow the first step below. All the steps after Step 1 won’t matter if you don’t spend time here.
If you are a Leader in any capacity (team, family, school, department, organization, church, etc. etc.) THE MOST IMPORTANT step in Leadership is to Define Your Leadership by asking these two questions:
What Is Your Leadership Vision?
What Are Your Core Values?
When you're on a journey, your Vision serves as both your starting point and your destination. Your Values act as the compass—providing direction, guidance, and helping you stay on course.
Without Values, you might keep moving, but eventually you'll look up and ask, "Where am I, and how did I end up here?"
The answer? You were moving—but without direction.
Oh, and by the way, you are all Leaders, because the person that you actually need to lead first is YOU. So I’ll ask again: What is Your Leadership Vision? And What Are Your Core Values?
And in the words of one of the greatest 90’s R&B artists of our time, Brian McKnight, “If ever I believe my work is done, then I’ll start back at one.”
