Touch your potential
For a team to realise its collective potential, each member has to first realise their own potential.
So, what would it take to realise your potential? What would be different if you did?
Adam Grant’s latest book, Hidden Potential is a gem. I love how he positions potential as, “not a matter of where you start, but how far you travel”. I do recommend you read it to understand how to access more of your potential.
In Jonny Wilkinson’s, the ex-England rugby great, recent podcast I Am, his guest Dr. Pippa Grange, an acclaimed psychologist, spoke about ‘touching your potential’.
Upon reflection, I realised that reference to ‘hidden, unrealised, or unlocked’ potential makes it more inaccessible. Talking about touching potential, makes it accessible.
Here are 4 attributes to help you touch your potential and achieve great things:
Determination – is the conviction you bring to what is possible. When you pair your motivation (want) with commitment (will), your determination flourishes. Others value your courage more than your intellect.
Intuition – is your wisdom that exists beyond the boundaries of what you know and what you’ve done. Your wisdom enables you to make decisions in the absence of full information and understanding.
Curiosity – is your gateway to learning. Being more curious helps you to unlearn to see things differently and access new possibilities.
Engagement – through the quality of your working relationships, you secure greater cooperation and commitment with others and achieve greater things, together.
A COMMITMENT
As a leader, how could you create the conditions for others to touch more of their potential and in so doing, touch more of yours?