Pause and Prioritize with Purpose with Andrea Goeglein

Traditionally, we have thought of a good leader as the best problem solver and do-it-all-by- yourself kind of person. How do we become the best leader that we can be by not just relying on our sole capacity?

Learning to prioritize our communities of concern by looking through the lens of these three C’s: Compassion, Collaboration, and Cooperation opens leaders to the reality that the best solutions and answers are found not in doing it all alone but in reaching out to others.

Known as Dr Success®, Andrea Goeglein is a media personality, author, publisher, former hotel owner, event organizer, CEO adviser, and spiritual community activist. She has been a counselor and personal mentor to countless CEOs of privately held companies.

She is a Success Expert who puts the practice of Positive Psychology to work for you. She founded and trademarked the Don’t Die® inspirational book series. Her latest book is Don't Die Waiting to Be Brave. She has a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology.

In this episode, Andrea talks about how leaders, in all areas of concern ‘wait too long’ to reach out to others. For them, doing and handling everything by themselves is what makes a good leader. In fact, the way to find the best solutions is to make others a part of the solution-finding-process

 

What you will learn from this episode:

Learn how to prioritize your communities of concern by looking through the lens of compassion, collaboration, and cooperation Find out why you need to reach out to others and not need to wait too long to do it Discover how reaching out to others and not doing it all alone offers the best solution

 

“Prioritizing is still the number one [challenge for executive leaders], but the view to which they look at it has changed very distinctly. And the most succinct way that I can give it to you is that they are looking through the lens of life and business priorities through the three C's: Compassion, Collaboration, and Cooperation.”

- Andrea Goeglein

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Topics Covered:

 

01:32 - What female executives have to contend with as they move up the corporate ranks: the challenge of prioritizing with the view to look at it through the three C’s of compassion, collaboration, and cooperation.

02:55 - Executive leaders facing the reality that it is never best to do it alone

04:35 - Clients making the mistakes of ‘waiting too long’

05:27 - The reality in executive leaders handling things by themselves and waiting too long to reach out, in all areas of life

06:02 - One free and actionable tip you can do to address the challenge in prioritizing: Focus on the awareness of your strengths and whether or not you are using them or not, will determine your resilience, whether or not you can flourish through difficult situations.

06:02 - One valuable free resource to find out what your top strengths are: https://servingsuccess.com/character-strength-survey/

08:02 - What if I believe that this moment in time was the greatest opportunity of a lifetime?

 

Key Takeaways:

 

“It is really a different moment in time, where we are moving away from. We have been forced to stop thinking, 'We can do everything alone'. In fact, we are now facing the reality that it is never best to do it alone. But in fact, that compassion and collaboration and really cooperating with others will get to the best solutions.” - Andrea Goeglein

 

“We have this tendency of waiting till the pain is so great. Well, now, we are waiting as long. But we are definitely looking to others for advice, and seeing what's working in their environments and their communities of concern.” - Andrea Goeglein

 

“The awareness of your strengths and whether or not you are using them or not will determine your resilience, whether or not you can flourish through difficult situations.” - Andrea Goeglein

 

“This is what I would ask our listeners to do today, at this moment in time take a real deep breath, and use the pause that we've been given whether we wanted it or not. To examine in all the communities of concern, what do I believe? What do I hope for the future? Who and what do I love? And then make those answers the thing that guides you day-to-day?” - Andrea Goeglein

Ways to Connect with Andrea Goeglein:

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