Driving down a Perth freeway through roadworks — heavy traffic, flashing lights telling her to slow down — executive leadership partner and coach Louise Gibson found herself thinking about leadership. The signs are there for a reason. Ignore them and someone gets hurt, and everything slows down anyway.

Leadership is no different. Right now, especially at this time of year, leaders are facing new priorities dropping in, emerging changes, and a lot going on in people's personal lives as well as their work. We need to lead to our conditions— which means creating space regularly, whether that's daily or weekly, to stop and look around.

What's happening around you? What's the impact on you, and on your team? And how do you need to adjust your leadership to meet those conditions?

3 questions Louise has been asking herself lately:

1. What are the top three things that matter right now?

2. What am I doing to create time and space to look after myself — the non-negotiables around exercise, meditation, time out with friends?

3. What am I saying yes to that I need to be saying no to?

If you're leading through a period of change, competing priorities and constant pressure, this is your prompt to slow down long enough to notice — and lead deliberately from there.

Topics: purpose-driven leadership · leadership effectiveness · executive performance · sustainable leadership · leadership growth · impact leadership · leading through change · prioritisation · CEO wellbeing · self-leadership

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