Your Drivers
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Your Drivers
Your drivers are your “engines”: the resilience, grit, and determination that drive you forward and help you adapt to changing circumstances.
ELEMENT 2.2: YOUR DRIVERS
“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”
–Roger Bannister
YOUR Self-AWARENESS
Just as a car full of fuel is never going to get you anywhere until you press the accelerator, desire alone cannot take you where you want to go. You need a way of transmuting that desire into forward momentum. That’s where your drivers come in.
In the words of Ian C. Woodward, Professor of Management Practice in Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, our drivers are the “worldviews, emotions, personality traits, as well as the values and motivators that either promote or impede efforts to change.” Leaders have to increase their self-awareness of their drivers—and conversely, their blockers—before they can effectively enact change in their habits and behaviours.
“There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity, and nuclear power: the will.”
–Albert Einstein
YOUR BLOCKERS
While drivers are the motivators that impel us to act, blockers are the underlying assumptions and biases that prevent us from truly changing.
For example, a leader who finds that he dominates conversations (and who wants to change that habit) needs to understand the “why” behind his drive to talk over others before he can truly change. If he identifies one of his drivers as “continual learning,” he will find himself more motivated to listen to others because he knows it will lead to more learning on his part And if he identifies “anxiety that things will go wrong” as a blocker, he can more clearly identify when that blocker is tempting him to overfunction in conversations.
YOUR INSIGHTS
In our work together, we will bring both your drivers and blockers to the surface so that we can gain new insights and help you work past longstanding barriers to change.
Some drivers you may have include ” energy,” “focus,” “speed,” and “challenge.” By clarifying what drives you—and also bringing to the surface the assumptions that block you—you’ll vastly increase your ability to enact meaningful change in your life.
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