Leading from the bottom. Using your go to energy🔋

When your team looks at you, can they see what you want them to be?

"Rob! - We need to see what you want us to be!"

That was a piece of feedback late last year that one of my Rocketeers gave me.

It really hit me hard. Not in bad way, but in an inspiring way.

Times are changing fast, and it's easy as leaders to be stuck in the mode of telling others what to do because you did the hard yards before. The reality is, you have to earn that respect of experience again.

Because times are different.

Markets are different. Customer challenges are different. Competition is different and technology is way different.

What better way to connect with your team than to get in the trenches and learn the parts that are frustrating, so that you can help solve them.

It's your chance.

When they look at you, can they see what you want them to be?

So how do you do this?

For me, I go back to what I call my IKEA energy. That was my first job pushing trolleys and doing all I could, for anybody to earn my $3.84 an hour. I learnt what service truly was. So I draw back that energy and I remember my hands on the cart, putting one foot on the bottom rail and taking a deep push off the back to get to the other side of the warehouse and deliver the goods to the customer as soon as I could.

What’s your go to energy?