I have had some people ask me about the book writing/publishing process and how it works. It has been a four-year journey for me to get to this point with The Visibility Factor book that I wrote. It took me a while to get things organized (thank you to AJ my developmental book editor) and figure out what I wanted to include in the book that would help people the most. I had to become more vulnerable and go through the situations again to share them in a way that people could feel what I went through and experience them.
The hardest part for me was that I needed to go back in time and remember how it felt for me in all the situations that I share in the book. It isn’t easy to do when you have moved past it, but taking that necessary step will help the people with their own visibility journey even more. They will read my stories where I lost my confidence and won’t feel like they are the only ones going through it. They will read client stories and see how they made changes to be more visible that they can relate to.
Going through this process helped me to remember that managers have to do this every day. As a manager you have been through more experiences than your team. It is easy for you to forget that your team may not know the things that you do or haven’t been through those same situations. How can you help them learn those skills and develop the capabilities that are now second nature for you? You can only be as strong as the team that you have. If you aren’t helping them grow and develop then it will limit your ability to delegate to them and you will be stuck trying to manage everything yourself. The sooner you can help them take on more, the better it is for you. Help them to get stronger so that you can move on to future roles and opportunities and they can too.