Week 8: Being Sustainable

Welcome to Week 8 of the Feminine Leadership Series.

This week we  focus on the fifth and final step in our Collaborative Practices Series, Being Sustainable.

Once you are Being Present, Accountable, Clear, and Powerful and are winning the games you are playing, it’s time to look at Being Sustainable. We define Being Sustainable as playing each round of the game in such a way that leaves you more able to play the next round. In this video we’ll explore several approaches which will help you achieve Sustainability beginning with the first of the 3 major areas:

1) Relationship with Self

2) Relationship with Others

3) Relationship with Systems

5 Collaborative Practices: Natural Laws of Leadership

Leadership Series Resources

Watch the video below to dive into how to be sustainable with self in the domains of physical health, mental health, emotional health, and financial heath.

Video2: Being Sustainable with Others – Playing Win-Win

In this video we talk about being sustainable with respect to others focusing on how to create win-win relationships.

Video3: Being Sustainable with Systems – Developing a Crank

In this video we talk about creating sustainable systems:
• A “Crank” For Leads/Sales/Fulfillment
• A plan for disaster recovery
• Controls in place that systematically protect assets
• Ecological support in family system and community

 

This Week’s Challenge

We have 3 challenges for you which I recommend focusing on over the next several weeks starting with our Sustainability with Self Challenge:

Challenge #1 – Sustainability with Self

Rate yourself from 1-10 (1=very poor…call a doctor, 10=extraordinary) in each of the areas relating to your Sustainability with Self: Physical Health, Mental Health, Emotional Health, and Financial Health. Select one area in which it would be highest leverage to be more sustainable than you are and ask yourself these questions:

1) What’s one area for which you’d like to be more sustainable with respect to your physical health, mental health, emotional health, or financial health?
2) What asset or resource is being used up in order to maintain your current existence?
3) What will happen if nothing changes and you continue just as you are and that resource is used up?
4) What’s the smallest change you can make that will put you on a sustainable path?

Challenge #2 – Sustainability with Others

Begin an audit of the most influential people in your life and consider the following questions:

1) Do you understand in detail what their biggest challenges are? Their hopes, dreams, fears, and frustrations. Their values?
2) Do you know specifically what they want most personally and professionally from your relationship? What represents a win to them?
3) Do they know what you want most from the relationship?
4) What areas can you see are overlapping…if not in method (how you get it) but in the desired outcome?
5) If asked, would they say the relationship is a win-win?
6) If asked, Would you say that the relationship is win-win?

Challenge #3 – Sustainability with Systems

Begin to look at each area of your business divided into marketing, sales, and fulfillment. In order to achieve long-term sustainability so that your business continues to grow and scale, you’ll need to develop a crank for your business. A crank is a leveraged system which make the outcome predictable, repeatable, and replenishable.

Look at which area of your business – marketing, sales, and fullfillment would be highest leverage for you to create a crank.

Begin to implement that over the coming weeks.

Join The Conversation

Let us know what you thought of these videos. Have any Questions? How will you put it into practice? How do you plan to improve it in the weeks to come? Send your comments to me at jennifer@california-leadership.com. I’m looking forward to hearing from you.

To Your Continued Success,

 

 

Jennifer Russell

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