Your Business Has a Nervous System

Your business often reflects the nervous system of the woman leading it.

When you're operating from urgency, fear, or the need to control every outcome, your business can begin to feel the same tight rigid way.

You hold tighter. You check everything. You step in quickly. You make yourself responsible for everything. And sometimes, you don't even realize you're doing it.

I had a client who was doing exactly this.

She genuinely believed she was helping her team. She didn't want them to think she wasn't handling everything. She wanted to be available. She wanted things done correctly. She wanted to protect the brand and make sure nothing fell through the cracks.

Her intentions were good. But her team was experiencing something very different.

They felt underutilized. They didn't feel like they had the opportunity to bring their own strengths, ideas, growth-initiatives and expertise to the table.

AND... The more she stepped in, the less opportunity they had to step up.

And over a short period of time, major frustration was felt within the team:

• Their confidence wasn't growing.

• Their competence wasn't growing.

• Their mindset wasn't expanding.

• Their desire to develop themselves diminished.

• And... Their overall energy was leaking and goals were far from achievement.

  
  

Not because they weren't capable. Because they weren't being given enough space to become capable at a higher level.

That's the hidden cost of micromanagement.

You may think you're protecting the business. But you may actually be preventing your team from becoming the team your business needs.

Eventually, team members began leaving. And that setback became a turning point.

Instead of pointing fingers, blaming the team, or deciding she simply had the wrong people, my client asked a much more powerful question:

“How do I need to lead differently?”

That question changed everything.

We began looking at what it meant to lead her team toward performance without controlling every step.

• To create accountability without hovering.

• To establish clearly defined standards without taking over.

• To allow people to use their strengths, natural talents, and skill-sets.

• To develop confidence through responsibility, accountability, and autonomy.

• To schedule personal development & business development classes for all team members.

• And ultimately, to step her fully into her role as the LEADER & VISIONARY of the brand—not the person responsible for doing everything inside it.

There is a difference between being responsible for the business and being responsible for everything in the business.

Leadership isn't proving that you can do everything. Leadership is creating an environment where the right people can perform at their highest level.

And often, that requires you to loosen your grip. Not your standards. Your grip.

A Flow-State In Business Doesn't Mean Less Leadership -

• It means less force.

• It means trusting your team enough to let them contribute.

• Trusting your systems enough to let them work.

• Trusting yourself enough to not need to control every outcome.

• Trusting that your role as CEO isn't to be the person who does everything. It's to EMPOWER those you've brought into your organization.

  
  

Your role is to create the conditions for everything & everyone to perform better.

A business that can actually grow beyond you.

The next level of your business begins when you stop asking, “How can I handle this?” and start asking, “Who can I develop to handle this?”

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In Wellness & Wealth~

Kimberly Rolandson