Are Your Beliefs Hindering You as a Leader?

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I think there's a... The first place to start is to be curious. So you've gotta not just go to, "What do I need to do differently?" Which is what most of us who are extremely action-biased will do.

Mm-hmm.

You've gotta take a, a, a beat and, and ask yourself, "What is happening right now? What are, what are the outcomes that I'm getting? Where's the dissonance?" And let me reverse engineer it. What are the behaviors or actions I'm taking that are leading to the current act- to the current outcomes? And then take a step back from that and say, "What is the mindset that is driving that type of action and behavior? What are the assumptions that I'm making, either about the way that I need to lead, about those who I'm leading, about the context that I'm in, that are then driving the current actions?"

Muriel, thank you so much for being with me today.

Thank you. I'm so delighted to be here.

Let's first talk about what exactly a hidden blocker is. They're hidden because people don't know that they're there, and they've managed to be very successful in spite of them?

Yeah. So hidden blockers are beliefs that you hold. And what is a belief? A belief is a narrative that you tell yourself. It's a story. It's an assumption. And so the reason why they are hidden is because while they may have helped you in the past, they have become so habitual that you're not even aware that they're still operating in situations where they actually might not be as effective as they have been for you in the past.

If it is something that's not obvious, how does it become apparent?

It usually becomes apparent because there's some dissonance between what you desire in terms of an outcome and what you're actually experiencing. And so you can, uh, you can have a cue around that in two ways. It can be an external cue. So if you ever receive some feedback, for example, and you're like, "That feedback doesn't resonate with me," or, "That's not the way I wanna be seen," or your team might not be performing in the way you'd like them to perform. So there might be some external cues that things aren't going the way that you would like them. But you can also have some internal cues. If you're feeling frustration, if you're feeling burned out,