3 Ceilings Sabotaging Your Leadership Growth

Welcome back to another episode of the Craig Rochelle Leadership Podcast. I'm going to talk today about something that every leader eventually faces. If you're there now, let's try to get through it. If you're not, you will be there one day. I'll start with a question. Have you ever felt like you're working harder than you did maybe even before But you're not moving forward. Your

Trying what you used to try, doing what you used to do, but it's not working like it used to work. And what's odd is sometimes you'll recognize you've actually gained more experience over the years, or your team might even be bigger and stronger than it used to be, or your abilities have even gotten better in many different areas, but somehow For some reason growth seems slower. And the decisions that you make seem a little bit weightier than they used to. And the things that you used to do just don't have the same return today like they did in the past.

Now, if you're like me, most of us as leaders we tend to respond in the same way. It's kind of like If you ever go and uh you're trying to go up on an elevator or down on the elevator and you push the little elevator button. And you wait and nothing happens. If you're like me, what I do is I just go back and it's dumb, but I do it, I push the button harder. I do it again, I push it harder. And that's what we often do in leadership. We try to work harder, work longer, try to be more disciplined. We tell ourselves things like, if I just bring a little bit more effort, I'm finally gonna break through. But I want to raise the idea today that more effort might not be what's necessary. Sometimes what happens, you don't even know it, but you hit what I call a leadership ceiling. It's like this invisible barrier between where you are and where you could be, or where you are and where you wanna be. And what I've learned is that

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