So we have to manage our ENERGY

Do you get a sense that the digital technology landscape is changing almost on a weekly basis right now? With the beginning of every week there seems to be another feature, another AI progression or integration holding a promise of opportunity. In equal measure do you feel scared about this? Where it’s all going and what it means for you?

There is no doubt that the pace of technological change and integration is getting faster and faster. Keeping up, Understanding, Experimenting, Adopting…However you want to describe it one thing is clear. Every leader. Every single leader and entrepreneur must become not digitally literate, but digitally fluent. To competently integrate digital into our strategies we have to first have a lived experience of it ourselves. That’s what gives you the confidence and also gives you a sense of the shadow side too. The ethics, the safety, the security aspects that accompany any adoption of technology whether it’s AI or something else.

So we have to become competent around digital TECHNOLOGY.

The Digi-Dabbler!

Are you someone who spends time reading and learning about AI, getting excited about it to the point where you start to explore things like Chat GPT and Co-Pilot, but then something else more important comes along to take your attention. Or worse, you try a few things, get a bit stuck and leave it for ‘another time’. If you can say yes, you are likely what I call a Digital Dabbler. Dipping in and out of digital technologies and new features without ever really getting to grips with the benefit of them for your productivity or the strategic direction of the business. I get this all the time with leaders and entrepreneurs I work with. You know the world has changed, but where do you find the time to fully understand and integrate some of this stuff into your practice and strategies!? The answer is simple, by taking small actions in a routinely manner.

So we have to take ACTION

What I’ve just described to you is what I call META. The combination of upgrading what we do as leaders and entrepreneurs with who we are as leaders and entrepreneurs.

Imagine upgrading your belief system for the world today - MINDSET

Imagine being able to focus on the right things and be present in the moment - ENERGY

Imagine being competent and confident about using digital as well as integrating it into strategy - TECHNOLOGY

And finally imagine these three things being fully integrated into your practice and identity as a leader and entrepreneur so that every day you are taking positive steps forward - ACTION

This is digital leadership 2.0. The new way of leading that is equally about leveraging technology for the good of business and our productivity as it is about maximising our ability to thrive in our personal life today, not tomorrow.

We need to have digital technology fluency to thrive both professionally and personally.

If you develop your digital leadership 2.0 mindset and practice this is likely what you will experience:

• Confidence in growing and scaling your business

• Healthy boundaries between personal and professional time

• The leadership fitness needed to create flow in your life and move with change

• A priority placed on self care and wellbeing without the belief of it being selfish

Digital leadership 2.0 gives you professional success and personal fulfilment because they are linked.

The gift of the age we live in is our ability to reconnect with humanity. Where humans can design, deliver and coexist with machines and technology in an ethical, open and responsible way.