The More Empowered You Are as a Young Leader, The More You Empower Others

You need hope in order to survive and thrive in today’s highly competitive global marketplace and workplace. This is why I am a big fan of personal coaching because it empowers you. It helps you stay committed to something bigger than you. It helps you find your purpose. It helps you embark on the greatest mission of your life. You get to choose the mission.

I believe we are all here on a mission and the mission is to help each other become better. We are here to help each other have more control over our future. Personal coaching allows you to empower others. It allows you to trust more, to believe more, and to give more without strings attached.

The more empowered you are, the more you empower others. That’s how we build trust among each other and in our organizations, businesses, workplaces, and communities. That’s how you become the best. Personal coaching allows you to lose the need to be right because finally you are right with you. You lose the need to control others because you finally have control over you and your future. The more control you give others, the more they will trust you. It’s called empowerment. Our world needs trust more than ever and I believe the solution is in personal coaching.

According to the 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer, people around the world have shifted their trust to the relationships within their control. That means the less control people feel around you, the less they will trust you. This is why according to this global study, people globally trust in their employer (75 percent) more than NGOs (57 percent), business (56 percent) and media (47 percent). That means people are feeling more empowered by their employer than by NGOs, business or media.

How much empowered do people feel around you?

This is a good question to ask yourself if you are looking to grow your career and become who you want to be. We trust people that empower us. You may not be a business or an employer, but you need to think like one. The loss of trust in institutions is happening at the same time that people are feeling more powerful. The 2018 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends, a report I referenced in an earlier blog post, points out that the power of the individual is growing and young people are at the forefront of this shift in power. This is fascinating because to me what it means is that people around the world are feeling powerful yet at the same time feeling less control over their lives and future.

This is where you come in as a smart, fun and caring young leader. Your goal is to use your life to help others realize they have more power than they think and showing them how to use this power wisely. But you need to have control over your life first. Control over your life and future comes when you use your own power wisely. It’s called leadership.