The Performance of Having it all Together

Most senior leaders are performing some version of themselves at work. Not all the time. Not in every conversation. But often enough that it has become the way they move through their days. A leadership voice. A leadership face. A leadership way of holding themselves in a room. Most of the time, they don't even notice they're doing it. Until one day, somewhere quiet, they feel the cost of carrying a version of themselves they didn't realise they'd been carrying.In this episode, Amanda sits with the most exhausting and least talked about part of being at the threshold. The work of looking like we've got it together when we don't. Of sounding certain when we're not. Of leading from a face we've put on, rather than from a place we've actually arrived at. She names where this comes from, what it costs us, and how we might start to set it down.Episode 3 includes:The four shapes performance tends to take in senior leadership (certainty, energy, decisiveness, having it together emotionally)The distinction between presence and performance, and why only one of them is sustainableThe science of emotion regulation, and why sustained performance depletes the same capacity we need for complex decisionsWhy people can see the performance even when they can't name it, and what that costs our authenticity and our ability to connect with our teamThe four small moves that start to change our relationship with the performanceA reflection prompt for leaders carrying more performance than they realisedThe Threshold is hosted by Amanda Ramplin, founder of EOS Coaching and a former senior leader at ANZ.Episodes drop fortnightly. Reflective. Honest. Unhurried.Find Amanda at eoscoaching.com.au or on LinkedIn at Amanda Ramplin.