From Duty to Passion
Are you coming into work every day out of a sense of duty and obligation to successfully complete today’s agenda and tasks? If you answered yes, you are not alone. A significant majority of people do just that.
In our last blog we talked about shifting from task to purpose. Once you make that very important shift, you will find the task you perform more meaningfully, fulfilling, and impactful. You will also find yourself moving from performing a job out of duty (obligation or burden) to delivering on a purpose with passion (a desire, hunger, or craving) and a different level of commitment. Additionally you shift from moments of apathy and surviving the day to moments of impact and thriving in the work you do.
To assist in making that shift, look at every professional relationship as a customer, in fact everyone in your sphere of influence is a customer. Both internal and external customers that you serve, the team you are a part of, you manager, basically any and all where you have direct or indirect impact are your customers. If you received a customer satisfaction rating on a scale of 1-5 stars with 5 as outstanding, what would that rating be from all of those that had any interactions with you this week?
If you will try to make that shift from duty to find purpose and passion on what you do and how you do it, it will be that passion for performance to deliver on expectations, promises, timelines, and to cultivate more authentic relationships that will create those positive moments of impact and provide a more fulfilling and meaningful day that is not driven out of burden or obligation.
Create positive moments of impact.
Shift from task and duty to purpose and passion, you will find the rewards great. Want to learn more about shifting from duty to passion? Grab your copy of LeaderShift today!
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SEPTEMBER 12 - From Fighting Change to Guiding Change
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Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in developing a dynamic and customized blue print to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
We Don't Want to be Managed!
Today, very few people, if any, want to be managed! There is an evolution in leadership underway. In the recently released book, LeaderShift, David Cottrell and I explore the necessary balance between structure and autonomy. The 3rd shift, From Structure to Enabled Autonomy, highlights the leadership evolution taking place today from managing people and process to enabling both organizational and people performance.
Technology has allowed for more autonomy and creativity than ever before in delivering results. However, complete autonomy without the structure that creates clarity, alignment, and an environment of accountability often results in chaos, confusion, and frustration. The proper structure should enable success, not impede it.
Enabled autonomy will be the catalyst for leading change, cultivating diverse thinking, enhancing employee engagement, and supports employee-led performance, the future of organizational performance.
"Enabled autonomy will be the catalyst for leading change..."
So is your leadership and organization evolving? If not, find out how to get it started by ordering your copy of LeaderShift today.
Upcoming Posts
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AUGUST 22 - From Drifting to Purpose
AUGUST 29 - From Customer Duty to Customer Passion
SEPTEMBER 5 - From Fighting Change to Guiding Change
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Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in developing a dynamic and customized blue print to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
Stop Waiting to be Led. Lead Where You Are.
This is one of the key shifts required to sustain both individual and organizational performance discussed in our new book LeaderShift, released today on Amazon.
Future success is about creating and cultivating environments where performance is pursued, not just reviewed. Where change is led, not managed. And where formal people leaders don’t just hold people more accountable, they develop a culture of personal accountability where everyone holds themselves more accountable; no matter what.
The pace of performance no longer waits for leaders to plan, direct, control, and manage. That leadership model is too slow and ineffective in today’s complex and disruptive business environment.
So stop waiting to be led, step up and lead where you are, no matter where you are. If you don’t, someone else will.
To find out more, get your copy of LeaderShift today.
- Ken Carnes
Upcoming Posts
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AUGUST 15 - From Structure to Enabled Autonomy
AUGUST 22 - From Drifting to Purpose
AUGUST 29 - From Customer Duty to Customer Passion
SEPTEMBER 5 - From Fighting Change to Guiding Change
NOW AVAILABLE!
Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in developing a dynamic and customized blue print to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
Fake News or Real Truth?
How do you know what to believe today?
In the new book LeaderShift, scheduled for release on August 8th, bestselling author David Cottrell and I explore the need to move from organizational and individual fiction to truth.
Each day we receive over 35,000 messages, either directly or indirectly, all targeted to influence our thinking and actions in some way and I can guarantee not all of those messages contain the full truth. An average person speaks 16,000 words each day. I can promise that some individuals will not always tell you the truth for any number of reasons.
So in your organization, can people tell truth from friction or are those lines blurred? More importantly, do the messages you send and the words you speak contain the truth – no matter what? The foundation for team and personal success is built on truth (which leads to trust) and this week I challenge you to strengthen that foundation.
Learn more about making the shift from fiction to truth on August the 8th.
- Ken Carnes
Upcoming Posts
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AUGUST 8 - From Waiting to be Led to Leading Where You Are
AUGUST 15 - From Structure to Enabled Autonomy
AUGUST 22 - From Drifting to Purpose
AUGUST 29 - From Customer Duty to Customer Passion
SEPTEMBER 5 - From Fighting Change to Guiding Change
LeaderShift Release Date
August 8, 2017
Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in developing a dynamic and customized blue print to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
Stop Managing People, Make the LeaderShift
Old management styles that used to be effective for 40-50 years are now becoming barriers to success, creating unnecessary turnover, perpetuating a culture of employee compliance not engagement, and where maintaining the status quo is valued.
Business and organizations are rapidly evolving and changing, and so is leadership. In the new book LeaderShift, scheduled for release on August 8th, the bestselling author of over 25 books, including Monday Morning Leadership, David Cottrell and I create a path for future leadership success through story and examples that anyone can follow and benefit from.
Over the next 6 weeks I will give you a brief glimpse into each of the fundamental “leadershifts” taking place. Next week I begin with shifting from “fiction to truth”, how to achieve clarity and alignment in a world full of cluttered communication and messaging. Subsequent weeks will highlight moving from waiting to be led to leading where you are, from drifting and task focused to purpose driven, and finally shifting from fighting and managing change to leading change.
If you and your organization are ready to cultivate a culture of leadership at every level and have the tools to develop the leader in everyone, LeaderShift is the foundation that will get you started on a path to future leadership success.
- Ken Carnes
Upcoming Posts
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AUGUST 1 - From Fiction to Truth
AUGUST 8 - From Waiting to be Led to Leading Where You Are
AUGUST 15 - From Structure to Enabled Autonomy
AUGUST 22 - From Drifting to Purpose
AUGUST 29 - From Customer Duty to Customer Passion
SEPTEMBER 5 - From Fighting Change to Guiding Change
LeaderShift Release Date
August 8, 2017
Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in developing a dynamic and customized blue print to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
Leaders Define Success, They Don’t Dictate
While having the privilege to work with great leaders at every level, every day, I've noticed one trait that transcends all the best leaders is the ability to continually define and align to success. If people constantly demand and dictate success they might achieve success but at a cost of resentment, resistance, and reluctance.
However, if you look to define the success you want then people can align to that success and are more likely to be committed and engaged in achieving that it than just being compliant to the demands of the day. Some examples are: Success for your part of the organization in 2017, development goals for you and your team, or even what success looks like coming out of the meeting you are about to attend. Defining success for even the most simple parts of your day can lead to greater results.
So, do you and those around you know what success looks like? If not, here is your opportunity to lead with clarity.
-Ken
Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in developing a dynamic and customized blue print to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
