People, including current and future leaders, who truly want to grow, achieve greater success, and become better leaders, spend significant time closely observing and learning from the top performers.
In the book The Little Book of Talent, Daniel Coyle writes:
“We each live with a ‘windshield’ of people in front of us; one of the keys to igniting your motivation is to fill your windshield with vivid images of your future self, and stare at them every day. Studies show that even a brief connection with a role model can vastly increase unconscious motivation.”
Coyle encourages all who desire to achieve greater success and lead more effectively to think of their windshield as a source of energy for their brain.
This is a great concept and habit to teach and nurture among those who report to you and those throughout your entire organization. Your direct reports, and all those throughout your entire organization should be proactively and purposefully leveraging their virtually unlimited ‘windshield’ in order to ignite, inspire, and sustain their desire, actions, and habits directed toward achieving greater success and becoming a more effective leader.
As a leader, you should be constantly discovering and featuring people, stories, examples, articles, books, videos, presentations, and other experiences designed to proactively and positively fill the ‘windshield’ of those throughout your entire organization.
Each person throughout your organization has a windshield. Each and every person throughout your organization is and will always be hugely influenced and impacted by what is in their windshield.
You are the leader! Be sure the windshields throughout your organization are reflecting the culture and future you desire to create and sustain!
