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Chapter 10: THE EXPANSION OF LEADERSHIP: PERSONAL GROWTH

What do you spend the most time thinking about – Yesterday, Today or Tomorrow? Why is that?

How do the people surrounding you affect your focus?

How has your capacity to grow affected your capacity to lead?

GROWTH MATTERS

1. Growth is the Only Guarantee That Tomorrow Will Get Better.

What do you need to learn, unlearn, and relearn to make tomorrow better than today?

When did you see doors open up due to you growing personally?

How can this create momentum in your life/business?

• A growth habit strengthens hope.
• Growth sustained over times realizes hope.

When have you seen the greatest change in your life?

What were the contributing factors to this?

2. Growth Means Change

“Every level of growth calls for a new level of change.” - Gerald Brooks

Where have you had to face a new challenge with a new level of growth?

“The illiterate of the future are not those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” - Herbert Gerjuoy

Can you describe a time when you practiced the learn, unlearn, and relearn in your personal growth?

3. Growth is the Great Separator Between Those Who Succeed and Those Who Don’t

As you read the piece on being “Average,” how does it alter your thinking about your goals for personal growth?

Discuss whether you agree or disagree with this statement: Growth’s highest reward is not what we get from it, but what we become because of it.

Describe the difference between these two lists:

4. For Growth to Be Maximized, It Must Be Strategic

Big Picture: Where do You Need to Focus Your Growth?

• What constitutes your big picture?
• Where do you want to go?
• What are the strengths you can develop?
• What choices can you make in foundational areas that will improve you?
• What core values do you need to include in your growth process?

Measurement: How Can You Measure and Affect Your Growth?

Who has stretched you?

What has stretched you?

Consistency: How Can You Grow Daily?

What is your Rule of 5 for your personal growth?

Application: Can You Act on it?

5. Growth is Joy

Growth will not come to you. You must pursue it. Effective leadership doesn’t happen on its own. You must go after it.

How can there be joy in growing when everything is uphill?

What do you want to go after?

Where could your growth journey take you?

• Remember
• Take the road wherever it leads you.
• Make the best choices at every juncture.
• Remain teachable

How could this strategy help you advance greatly in your leadership?

APPLICATION: Developing the Learner Within You

Adopt a Learner’s Mind-Set

• What is your mind-set about growth?
• What must you change in your attitude to become a better learner?

Develop a Specific Growth Strategy

• Big Picture: Where do I need to focus my growth?
• Measurement: How can I measure and affect my growth?
• Consistency: How can I grow daily?
• Application: Can I act on it?

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