What is my least favourite moment at The Global Leadership Summit?
It’s the same moment every year. And every year I resolve to do whatever it takes to minimize the likelihood that it will recur.
It’s the moment as the Summit ends, when leaders throughout the auditorium, and in auditoriums across Canada, are pumped up, high-fiving each other…and then invariably they start talking about other leaders on their team they wish had attended.
I hate that moment.
And that moment leads to later moments where the leader who stayed home feels like an outsider as their fired-up teammates tell story after story of the impact of the Summit. New visions are born. New determinations to build the Kingdom are unleashed.
And there sits the lonely leader, the one who missed out.
This will be my final word on the subject. Don’t be that person. Don’t be the leader who missed out.
Instead, do whatever it takes to free up the time and resources necessary to participate at The Global Leadership Summit, September 29-30.
If you need one more reminder why, take 5 minutes and watch what happened last year.
Many leaders I know give themselves only a “C-“ grade on this relational component of their leadership. The reality is that these kinds of relational connections rarely make it into a leader’s “urgent” file, and so they just fade away off the radar.
We were in Toronto putting on a conference, and during an evening break several of us had piled into a van to dash over to a nearby shopping mall to pick up some technical equipment. We knew this equipment was carried by only one store in the mall and, as we stood inside the mall looking at the large map, we could easily spot the store we needed to find.
