The Subjective Nature of Success How Leaders and Individuals Can Find True Fulfillment

Evolving Perceptions of Success: Navigating Life Stages and Career Milestones.
In this episode, we discuss the following:
👉 Evolving Nature of Success
👉 Leadership Challenges
👉 Influence of Internal and External Factors:
👉 Role of Compensation
👉 Impact of Grief and Life Events
👉 Journey vs. Outcome
👉 Importance of Self-Connection
👉 Skill Development and Readiness
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Today's episode is about reflecting on the conversation I had with Dr. Kimberley. And while Dr. Kimberley was specifically talking about faculty and how faculty within universities may find themselves challenged with integrating and in terms of considering what success is for them and how that changes over a lifetime, but also how that changes over the pursuit of our goals and achievements.
When I walked away from the conversation, I became particularly aware of how that's actually true for most leaders and most people in organisations. That as time goes on and as experience change, that what success is and how it's achieved and what feels satisfying and what brings contentment and what feels purposeful, can be wildly different.
And this has made me think a little bit about the different life stages that I meet people. So some of my clients are mid career professionals who've attained quite a great deal of success, but they have their eye on a goal. Other clients are at the top of their game. They're. as high as they can go in terms of organisational success or industry success, but they want to improve how they're doing it.
So their new level of success isn't based on getting higher. It's based on doing better, being more effective, more impactful, more of a leader that people can trust and relate to. And then I have this other smaller cohort of clients. who are at the end of their careers, usually being highly successful, very motivated, very engaged in the work and the industry that they're in, and they may be either heading into retirement or starting to think about what their life might look like at the end of work, because for a lot of the time, work was the goal or family was the goal, and they might have got to the stage where work and family are no longer.
the goal. There is something that's been achieved and they're thinking about how they want to spend the rest of their lives. But again, they're thinking about the impact that they want to have, the way they want to use their knowledge and their expertise. And I think it's really important when we're thinking about success and we're thinking about achievement and how we measure it, that we are aware of some of the internal stuff that happens.
So there's a really good book by Dr. Tony Humphries about work and worth, and in that book he describes that relationship between how I relate to work and how I gain value through work and how I manage my relationship with work based on some internal or historic experiences. But also I think it's really important to think about the fact that some definitions of success have been given to us.
We've inherited them either from our industry, from our education, from our families, and that for some people, for many people, they haven't really unpacked what success looks like. And yesterday in a class that I was doing some lecturing in, we talked about how once you pay people enough money, it's like a basic economics theory, I think. Um, once you pay people enough money, they start to desire other compensation, like time, usually, uh, quality of life.