Coaching Yourself to Leadership: Five Key Strategies for Becoming an Integrated Leader

Being Comfortable Outside Your Comfort Zone

Visualization is just the beginning; it’s a portal into your future. But it requires that you take risks and be smart about ways to turn your vision into reality. To become an integrated leader, you must take risks and also become consciously aware of yourself and of what’s happening around you. You must know how to assess the environment to determine if and how well it will support you, and figure out what steps will lead to achieving your goals.

Taking risks, however, doesn’t mean plowing ahead without thinking about consequences. It means making conscious calculations about what’s involved with particular moves. It means knowing your strengths and weaknesses and understanding how far you can stretch ...