Today’s business leaders face numerous challenges, many of which stem from interactions with people. In office or service-based environments, engaging with colleagues, clients, and customers can account for 60-80% of daily activities. In some service industries, this number can rise as high as 90%.
These interactions are influenced by a range of factors, one of the most significant being your unique human wiring. This wiring influences your thoughts, actions, and how you engage with others.
Understanding Your Human Wiring
Every individual has a specific wiring pattern that influences how they generate ideas, process thoughts, communicate, thrive in different environments, and make decisions. Understanding this wiring is key to identifying recurring behaviors that might be hindering your progress—especially if you’re in a leadership position or working on scaling a business.
Often, these recurring behaviors are attempts to satisfy your wiring’s natural tendencies. Without awareness, you may find yourself stuck in a loop, repeating actions that don’t lead to the results you want.
A Common Wiring Pattern and Its Challenges
Over the years, we’ve worked with leaders who exhibit a particular wiring combination:
They enjoy creating and implementing their own ideas and are strong advocates for them.
They prefer to think things through and communicate directly—this is what we refer to as the “Internal Thinker.”
They juggle multiple tasks, often becoming impatient and setting unrealistic expectations for themselves or others.
They value information, structure, and doing things the right way.
Leaders with this wiring often struggle with the following:
Self-Critical Mindset
Without awareness, their internal dialogue can be self-limiting or self-sabotaging, often focusing on what isn’t working. They may overanalyze situations, becoming overly critical in an effort to avoid mistakes.
Delegation
Believing that they are the best person for the job, they can become bottlenecks. Their urgency to move on to the next idea often prevents them from adequately training their team, leading to an overflowing plate of responsibilities.
Fear
Fear of failure, making the wrong decision, or not looking like they have all of the answers in front of their team can paralyze their progress.
Procrastination
Procrastination often stems from their wiring. Impatience leads to delays in tasks perceived as time-consuming. As internal thinkers, they may procrastinate on difficult conversations, overanalyzing what to say. They also delay delegation, fearing it won’t be done perfectly or that it’s faster to do it themselves.
Imagine a leader wired for task-oriented work, responsible for nurturing and developing a team. This task-oriented leader must now focus on nurturing elements—like reinforcing training, encouraging idea-sharing, and being patient with mistakes.
How can they excel in this role?
Strategies to Interrupt Patterns and Improve Leadership
Disrupt Your Natural Impulse
Your wiring is a natural impulse, but your response is a choice. Recognizing your tendency to have your hand in or thumbprint on everything allows you to interrupt that pattern.
Pattern Interrupt: Instead of immediately solving a problem for your team, ask them how they would approach the situation. Encourage them to develop solutions, which not only builds their critical thinking skills but also strengthens your leadership capabilities.
If social interactions drain you, take small steps to build relationships.
Pattern Interrupt: Spend a few minutes asking about someone’s weekend or acknowledging an employee’s consistent performance. These small gestures can help foster a more positive team environment.
Retrain Your Brain
If you find yourself stuck in negative thinking, catch yourself in the moment and shift your focus to the outcome.
Pattern Interrupt: Replace thoughts like “nothing ever works out” with affirmations like “opportunities are aligning from expected and unexpected sources right now.” By consistently practicing this, you can train your brain to move away from self-limiting beliefs and open up space for creative, expansive thinking.
Be Responsible for Clear Communication
As an internal thinker, you might believe you’ve communicated something when you haven’t. Fear of being wrong can lead to deflecting responsibility for miscommunication.
Pattern Interrupt: Own your part in any miscommunication. If you missed a key detail, such as a deadline, acknowledge it, correct the mistake, and move forward. Owning clear communication is vital to effective leadership.
The Bottom Line
You may repeat certain behaviors because your wiring is operating in the background without your conscious awareness. The more you understand and create awareness around your natural wiring, the better you’ll be at interrupting patterns that no longer serve you. This will help you achieve your desired outcomes and lead more effectively.
Invitation
If you’re ready to scale your business with greater ease, I invite you to attend the Wake Up Profitable Boot Camp on October 21-22, 2024. This Master Class is specifically designed for business owners who are eager to grow their operations.
This class is powered by our proprietary Entrepreneurial Edge System and the first crucial step is Mastering Your Inner Entrepreneur. This transformative phase will help you understand and manage your unique wiring and build and lead a highly-productive team.
During the Boot Camp, we’ll also guide you through a Blueprint for scaling your business, showing you how to systematize operations and marketing. This is your opportunity to unlock your leadership potential and elevate your business to the next level.
To register for the Wake Up Profitable Boot Camp visit https://www.excellerateassociates.com/wake-up-profitable-boot-camp Monday-Tuesday, October 21-22, 2024,
or
Join our Introduction: Scale and Systematize half-day class at https://www.excellerateassociates.com/attend-profit-lab-intro/ on September 12 or October 10, 2024
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