One of the keys to effective leadership, especially for neurodiverse and different-thinking leaders, is knowing what drains your energy. If you don’t recognize your “energy depleters,” your battery can quickly run out, leaving you unable to lead effectively.
In this video, I encourage you to identify your top five energy-draining triggers. Once you understand these, you’ll be able to lead more intentionally, take meaningful pauses, and avoid burnout.
✨ Action Step: Create your personal list of the top 5 energy depleters this week and start taking charge of your leadership!
Transcription:
Okay, so one of the most important things about leadership is the fact that you’re able to lead yourself. And I talk about it often with my clients; I’m like, “You are only as good a leader as you are able to lead yourself.” And one of the issues that can happen is, when you’re leading yourself, if you’re not really aware of what depletes you—what really, really drains your battery—and as a neurodiverse person who’s a different thinker, who’s using a lot of energy to do a lot of things all at once and process a lot of stuff, you can get depleted faster. You probably know this. You’ve probably watched a ton of other TikTok videos about it. Yes, it’s really true, and it is a thing.
And there are things you can do to mitigate that—not mask it, but just mitigate it—and that’s knowing what depletes you. So, my encouragement this week is: create—not a long list—the top five depleters. Like, these things happen, and my battery just, like, I wipe out, I shut down, I go to one of the five apps—fight, flight, fear, fun, all of that. That’s what you need to know; that’s a deal breaker for leaders. When you know that, you can then shift your leadership. You can step into a different space; you can take a pause. You can create ways around that once you understand it.
So, know yourself is really important, and what we’re working on this week is those depleters.
I’m JoyGenea, International Neurodiversity Coach, coming to you from the beautiful wilderness of Wisconsin and hoping that you, as a leader and as a different thinker leader—a person with lots of ideas—that you are getting the support that you need to be an incredible leader and different thinker. Bye now!