Being a leader is hard…really hard.
As a leader one of your main responsibilities and privileges is to serve, hence the concept of the “servant leader.”
You need to serve your team, your customers, your partners, and your leaders (if you have them).
BUT… there is one group that leaders oftentimes forget to serve, and it is perhaps the most important one.
As a leader you also have to serve YOURSELF! Yes, you have to serve yourself.
Aside from overseeing nearly 500 employees around the world with an astounding 93% employee engagement, Garry also leads The Learning Moment to share his coaching mentality and has collaborated on multiple leadership books.
Leaders of the future must learn to channel their inner Yoda, which means being emotionally intelligent, specifically being able to practice empathy and self-awareness. This is what 140 of the world’s top CEOs told me when I interviewed the for my new book, The Future Leader. You can read about all of the mindsets and skills they identified in this article from a few weeks ago.