297. Creating Change that Lasts Through Genuine Transformation

“No one would ever create a resume like mine. I’ll give you some of the highlights. You won’t find many people who’ve been a teacher, a pastor, a night club owner, a consultant, coach, entrepreneur and is now running something which all those pieces were created for. All those different streams of my life now appear to be flowing in one river. It just feels a lot easier than it used to, because I think I’ve found a place where I fit.”

Three and a half years ago, Steve’s family (his wife, Helen, and their three daughters) and his business partner Jeremie Kubicek and family lived together in a 10-bedroom country priory, “a bit like Downton Abbey, just outside London,” Steve recalls. “Jeremie and I sat down and said, if God gave us another 20 years each, what would we most love to do, and who would we most love to do it with. We had the privilege, through three failures and some successes in the past, to have learned what we didn’t want to do in the future.” The two men, both of whom have been coaches for many years, focused on creating change that lasts. “We asked ourselves, could we create transformation that lasts in the lives of the leaders, the teams that we worked with?”

They express their answer in the vision they created for GiantWorldwide.com, stated on their website: We believe that if we commit to becoming and building leaders worth following, then we will see a massive shift in the cultures of organizations, families, cities, and countries across the world.”

“Part of what we’re doing is helping people understand how are you at your very best? How do you get to play using the things that you are naturally gifted to do? That’s really one of what I call my Jedi mind tricks. It’s taken me 13 years of learning how do people behave and why? How do we liberate people to understand, ‘It’s OK to be me. I’m going to live the very best me, in the way that I was made.’ The more what you do is along the lines of your nature, the greater the sense of purpose, joy and energy you bring to the world with which you’re engaging.”

1. Understand that you define your own world.

2. Stop focusing on external prohibitions and notice how many of them are actually inhibitions that you’ve put on yourself.

3. Aim for spending 70 percent of your time doing the things you’re naturally gifted to do.

4. Learn how to lead yourself before you attempt to lead others.

5 Leadership Voices: How to Communicate Effectively with Everyone You Lead, by Steve Cockram

5 Gears: How to Be Present and Productive When There is Never Enough Time, by Steve Cockram