A client of mine is gearing up to start a BTL team practice. As we were discussing it, I reminded her that team practice isn’t something magical, even though magic happens within it. It’s simply a leader and their team coming together to take some regularly scheduled good hard reps, with the aim of mastering the fundamentals of leadership and excellence and becoming more one.
Building anything great has a remarkably similar formula – excellence has a template. Master the fundamentals. Practice at the edge of your ability level. Keep setting new growth targets. Rinse and repeat. Of course there’s a world of nuance within there – lots of complexity. But it’s not complicated. You don’t have to know all the steps along the path. Simply the next one in the pursuit of mastery and then take action on it.
What stops us? All the urgent things that invade our inbox, our calendar. All the pop-ins where someone needs something now. All the to-dos that constantly take precedence. Slow down and set aside some time today, even 10 minutes, and write. Write about where you need to better master a fundamental of your craft. Or perhaps where you need to set a more aggressive growth target for yourself. And then decide how you want to practice it over the course of the next week. Giddy up.
BUILT TO LEAD 