You can approach professional development two ways:

The Leadership Ladder

• Few opportunities for creativity 
• Advancement impedes collaboration 
• Structure does not embrace engagement
• Low draw for performance

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The Development Mountain

• Creativity facilitates growth
• Collaboration elevates capacity
• Engagement through vision
• Challenges drive focus
• Purpose fueled culture

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When you move your mindset away from the confines of the leadership ladder, you open a world of opportunity for yourself, your team and your organization. If your team would benefit from creativity, collaboration and culture - we want to help you.

The Year of Reduction: Reduce to Produce

Reduce Your Pressures.

Take a moment to appreciate what you have accomplished and where you have traveled in your journey. Reinforce positive behavior as you face challenges.

Reduce Your Priorities.

Be intentional by reducing your list of priorities to items that you can gain momentum and achieve. Focus is the key to harnessing your ability to achieve.

Reduce Your Excuses.

Personal and professional development is not so much about learning new information but applying what we know to be true.

Climb higher towards your goals by reducing your load.

Quiet the noise that distracts you from your purpose.

The Year of Reduction.

Whether it’s the beginning of the year or any date thereafter, the demands of life weigh heavy on those who maintain a hunger for personal and professional growth. Life often feels like a mountain we are ill equipped to summit. The path of the status quo leads to lofty goals set at the dawn of the new year, most of which quickly fade into the necropolis of to-do lists gone un-done. Though it seems counter intuitive, if you want to carry your goals over the peak, you should start by reducing the weight of your load.

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease.
​Hack away at the inessentials.” - Bruce Lee  

Reduce your Pressures.

As you climb towards your goals, build into your development process time for reflection and gratitude.

Bill Carmody, founder and CEO of Trepoint, encourages growth minded professionals, “So much of what we do in our business is driven (or limited) by our psychology.

Celebrating your wins not only feels great physically, but it reinforces the behavior you want to show up when you face a new challenge or opportunity.” Reinforce positive behavior as you face challenges.

Reinforce positive behavior as you face challenges.

Reduce your Priorities.

#Reduce2Produce

Focus is the key to harnessing your ability to achieve. If you want to achieve your goals you must transfer your ideas (what is in your head) into habits (action) as this is the most effective way to develop sustained positive changes. Your neural messengers that facilitate goals being transformed into habit are called endocannabinoids. Dr. Ralph Ryback, writing for Psychology Today, states, “The best way to help you form a habit is by being consistent. Work toward your goal every day, even if you don’t feel like it. You can set aside a specific time each day, or a specific context.”

"The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important
things in order to accomplish the vital ones." - Brandon Sanderson

Reduce your Excuses.

In a letter to his friends in Rome, Paul writes, “I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment.” Often, our minds receive this as though we need to bring ourselves down a notch with an improper understanding of humility. I find it interesting that the author says, “With sober judgement,” which also means an honest evaluation. We shouldn’t think of ourselves more highly than we ought but also we should not think of ourselves more lowly than we ought. Sober judgement means that we have an understanding of our identity and our purpose.

What would happen if you and I declare this
The Year of Reduction - Reduce to Produce?

You've got this - Reduce to Produce! 

Resolve within yourself to Reduce so that you can Produce:

• If you begin to reduce your pressures, you will be able to focus your priorities. 
• When you reduce your priorities to what matters and where you can gain ground, you reduce the need for excuses. 
• When you reduce your excuses you also reduce the pressures that those excuses are tied to. 
• Embracing your identity and living your purpose are much clearer when the habit of reduction is utilized. 

By shedding some of the unnecessary weight you can focus on
​what matters to you and make progress in your process.

Are you ready to declare this The Year of Reduction?

Simple steps for reducing your priorities so that you can focus: 

• Create a list of long term goals, break those down into short term achievable action plans (yearly, quarterly, monthly, daily).​
• Encourage yourself to develop a daily habit that brings you closer to your goals.

• Set specific goals - some refer to these as SMART goals which include being simple, measurable and attainable steps.
• Track and celebrate your progress.
• Adapt as you go to adjust your course when necessary

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Additional resources for leadership development:

• The right questions to ask to improve your leadership skills.
• Clarifying and embracing your identity as a leader helps you to do the same for others.
• Building accountability within your team. 
• ​Leading with vision.
• ​Addressing dysfunction in your organization. 

• Two questions every manager should be asking.
• Increasing employee engagement as a new manager.
• Curing your tendency towards negativity as a leader.
• Establishing your credibility as a person in a position of leadership. 

By shedding some of the unnecessary weight you can focus on ​what matters to you and make progress in your process.