Courage is not about not having fear. Courage is having fear and doing something anyway.

At a recent leadership intensive, we split a room full of leaders into teams and asked who wanted to lead. Almost nobody raised their hand.

These are leaders, at a leadership event, and still most of them sat on their hands.

- Why so many capable leaders avoid raising their hand for the role, and what is actually happening underneath the excuses like I'm too busy or somebody else would do it better

- The real difference between courage and confidence, and why waiting until you feel ready is the one thing guaranteed to keep you waiting forever

- Why people want to be led by someone who actually wants to lead, and what a reluctant leader costs their team even when they are technically doing the job

- The specific moments in leadership that demand courage, from having the hard conversation you keep avoiding to simply saying I don't know, and why each one builds the muscle for the next

- A story about a cold call I avoided for four straight days, and the one I almost avoided the same way, and what changed when I didn't

This week, find the one place where you are playing it safe, whether that is a conversation you are avoiding, a hand you have not raised, or a risk you keep putting off, and do the thing anyway.

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The manager everyone thinks is incompetent probably isn't. She just never got trained.

82% of UK managers are what's called accidental managers, promoted without ever getting the skills or training to actually do the job…so what do you do about it?

You’ll learn everything you need to know about leadership training & development for your team including;

- Why what looks like incompetence in a struggling manager is almost always a training gap instead, and how that one reframe changes the entire conversation you need to have with them

- The six main ways to invest in leadership development, what problem each one actually solves, and how to know which one your team needs right now

- Why the old week-away training model barely works, and what the research actually says you need instead to get people to change their behavior and keep it

- How to build the business case that gets your leadership training budget approved, by tying it directly to a business objective the person signing off on it already cares about

- The one leadership myth from your MBA that's wrong, and why what looks like the Peter Principle is actually just leaders never getting the training they needed to succeed at the next level

This week, figure out what leadership development you, your team, or your organization actually needs, check whether it is already in next year's plan, and if it is not, start building the case for how it gets there.

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Your mind messes with you, and until you know that, it's going to keep holding you back.

Today, you're going to learn exactly how it does this and how to make it work for you instead of against you.

- The simple fact versus fiction tool for catching the exact moment your brain starts inventing a story that has nothing to do with reality

- Why a great presentation, a good piece of feedback, or a clear win can still get twisted into self doubt, and how to stop that story before it takes hold

- How to rewrite the story you are telling yourself about someone who seems distant or hard to read, and why that one shift changes how you actually show up with them

- What to do the next time your ego tells you that you are not qualified, not ready, or not the right person, and why that story is almost always the least accurate one available to you

- How to teach this same tool to the people you lead, so you can catch them in their own made up stories and help them get back to what is actually true

This week, find one story you are telling yourself that is causing you stress, draw a line down the middle of a page, write fact on one side and fiction on the other, and be honest about which side each thought actually belongs on.

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Doors are open for the Team Performance Accelerator, Michael's three month live programme on building a team that takes ownership without you standing over it. Six live sessions with Michael, starting October 6th. Enrolment closes September 28th.

Details here: rmichaelanderson.com/podteam