Self Management Of Female Leaders

As a Female leader You should ask yourself, "what is the worst case that can happen?" Measure your heartbeat, then make a decision and start acting.

　 Always ready

Most women leaders believe that opportunities are everywhere, while young women feel that risks are everywhere.

In fact, taking reasonable risks is the necessary ability of all leaders. When you embark on a new position, you take a certain risk; when you give up the "standard" career process for your family, you take some risks; when you get another experience from another office, you may take risks that you may not be able to adapt to; when changing departments or jobs, you also assume the risk of not doing well in the new job; when you decide to quit, you may shoulder the risk of losing your financial security.

Generally speaking, women are more conservative than men. Studies have shown that about 1/3 of women believe that risk taking can not lead to success. According to the findings of the leadership training program, women are more reluctant to take risks than men.

There are many reasons. Women rarely find sponsors who can "shield" themselves in their organizations, and colleagues support them less. In addition, it is hard to find other women who can help themselves, especially women leaders at high positions.

But return is directly proportional to risk. Women leaders who can often "bump into" opportunities are not more fortunate than others, but have a "ready to go" mentality. This mindset enables them to see opportunities that others can't see. Some people even create opportunities for themselves by actively investing in them; they pursue their dreams tirelessly. Their goals are clear, and a path is chosen to start sprinting instead of standing still, being hindered by uncertainty or being frozen by fear.

Risk and fear are twin brothers of opportunity; it is normal to achieve positive results that may be terrified. In fact, these fears can have a beneficial effect - they protect you, push you to plan ahead, work hard and avoid negative results. But the more you try to resist, the greater the power of fear. Therefore, we need to understand them and study the behaviors that they may induce and the consequences of these actions. Understand the fear conditions and ways to create obstacles, and let it flow.

From the bottom of the heart, being content with the status quo is no safer than being enterprising. Compared with those who are in the same place, although the climber is at risk of failure, his psychological state is even better. Gandhi once said, "when we stand in a circle, the boundary of a circle depends on our own fear." Now is the time to expand the border.

As a female leader, you should ask yourself, "what is the worst case that can happen?" Measure your heartbeat. Then make a decision and act.
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　 Energy supplement

No matter which field you choose, Shaping leadership They all need a lot of money. You have to work day and night, work overtime on weekends, spend a lot of time, plus child care and family responsibilities (more than 90% of women take more responsibilities than husbands in these areas). According to a recent study, 26% of working women believe that they work 24 hours a day and work 7 days a week for days and nights before they can manage their work well. 14% of women work with people in different time zones or manage different time zones. Nearly 20% of them are under pressure from working overtime in the office.

It is a real problem for many women to manage their personal lives while pursuing leadership. At this point, you need to think about your energy reserves, which can supplement energy and which will dissipate energy. Based on these factors, we will reformulate our timetable.

First of all, we need to look at the balance between work and life more effectively. Most female leaders' work life imbalance is caused by lack of energy, because people always feel that they can replenish energy at home and work will drain their energy. But in fact, work and life are not completely opposed. Working in the right way can lift your spirits - you will be engrossed in your mind and forget your time.

In fact, you can't expect to be in absolute work - life balance, and only try to balance yourself when errors occur. If the so-called balance does not exist, what should we do? If you want to not give up your sleep, do not give up your family life and be fully committed to your career, and you can still take a vacation.

First, put aside the idea that you can fully control everything and enter a stable state, instead focus on how to manage your energy within your priority framework. Rethinking the problem in this way allows you to turn an impossible problem (work life balance) into a very good solution (managing energy reserves). It also allows you to avoid overdraft. People are the most vulnerable when energy fails, most likely to make the wrong choice and lose leadership.

How do you identify your energy status, how to store it and gradually replenish it? Eddie Greenblatt (Edy Greenblatt) points out that there are four sources of energy available: physical sources, sources of cognition (or sources of thought), psychological sources (or sources of emotions), and social sources (spiritual sources).
 

Source of physical strength: your basic physical condition. Are you physically active now? Can you go out to work? Is diet regular and healthy? Did you really take care of yourself? This is the basic condition for a leader. Many women think that paying attention to their needs is selfish, and they feel guilty about it. This is absolutely wrong.
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Cognitive sources: your mental activities. Do you tend to concentrate? What kind of psychological activity excites you most? For example, if courage and enthusiasm are your core strengths, your brain may be extremely excited when leading a heated discussion session.

Psychological source: your mood. What makes you feel anxious, frightened or stressed? What makes you laugh? Some people like competition, others think it's too exhausting.

Social sources: your interpersonal relationships and core values. Will collective activities excite you or raise your spirits? Do you often play your strengths? Are you achieving your goals?

Female leaders believe that the most important way to preserve energy is to list priorities and stick to it as a basis for action. Formulating a set of rules, rather than "facing difficulties", can save you a lot of energy and time and avoid tension. For example, you can try to make principles in advance so that you don't have to waste time thinking hard about temporary decisions every day. Slowly, you will turn this attempt into a habit. Habit is an act of unconsciousness, which can preserve energy in itself.

Communication is of vital importance in implementing this approach. You should tell your team members and colleagues about your work rules and tell them where the boundaries are, implying that they respect your "work rules". Once you have set and implemented the rules, your colleagues will probably be affected. Of course, under certain exceptions, you will choose to break your rules and adapt to unexpected or unexpected events. The key lies in "choice" and "exception". If you strictly follow the rules and strictly define "exceptions", you will save a lot of energy.

Another important way to save energy is to redesign the timetable. In the face of heavy work tasks, try to do only one thing at a time, one by one, to see how energetic you are every hour. Rearranging your work schedule and setting aside some energy rest time, you will not be so struggling.

After beginning active management of energy reserves, remember that you can cultivate the ability to develop every source of energy. If you have received physical training or practiced dance or yoga, you will know that it is helpful to improve your ability if you go beyond the limit. So is energy management.

Normally, your energy state will fluctuate. However, as long as appropriate Active management You can control your energy state and avoid losing control - this is a good change.