Coaching Superstar Overachievers with Keren Eldad

In the process of navigating the uncertainty of this time, leaders tend to beat themselves up. Inclination towards perfectionism gets heightened, exerting further pressure on themselves and those they lead.

Self-awareness is the key to reducing that.

As a business coach & speaker, Keren Eldad is a trusted advisor to industry-leading executives and superstar entrepreneurs who regularly set records at the top of their fields. Since 2016, powerhouses have sought her out to help them make additional breakthroughs in the profitable growth of their business while revitalizing their energy and defining the meaning of their entire lives.

Over the last three years, Keren has worked with top organizations including J.P. Morgan, Christian Dior/LVMH, Van Cleef & Arpels, Waypoint Helicopter Leasing, Beyond Capital, YPO–and more.

In this episode, Keren Eldad points out how the challenges of this time make leaders even more prone to analysis-paralysis, more demanding of themselves and their people, and indecisive. Seeing the ramifications of this, she underscores the need for leaders to go easy on themselves first, to then become the proactive, innovative, and focused leader they are meant to be?

What you will learn from this episode: 

Discover about The Overachiever Method to help you create a productive, powerful, innovative, and ever charging leadershipLearn what mistakes leaders commit to help you know the big difference between high standards and perfectionism to live your authentic lifeFind out helpful tips you can do right now to be graceful as possible towards yourself even with your go-getter tendencies

“As you go through any degree of change, you have to learn how to be easy on yourself.” 

- Keren Eldad

Topics Covered:

03:14 - Who is a perfect client? 

03:30 - The challenge leaders face in navigating the uncertainty in their lives  

04:58 - The symptoms of the problem that is coming in by way of perfectionism 

06:59 - The mistakes leaders commit that prevent them from having an authentic and truly happy life 

09:22 - The three actionable tips you can do right now to help you move out of where you get stuck right now 

10:48 - Learn to be graceful with yourself 

12:27 - Book resource: Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. By Brene Brown 

13:46 - What’s really in it for me in approaching personal development? 

15:47 - A message she would like to tell her over-achiever self

Key Takeaways:

“Many leaders will find themselves more analysis-paralysis prone than ever, more indecisive than ever, more unforgiving than ever, perhaps, invulnerable than ever. And these are the main challenges that I helped them face, both in terms of their systems, but also in terms of their goals, which is really to make it to the other side of a tricky period.” 

“The most important thing is to recognize that you don't know what you don't know. And that's very, very hard for people to become self-aware of.” 

“There's a big difference between high standards and perfectionism. High standards still allow us to move. They don't make us beat up on ourselves. They hold people up to high standards, but they don't beat up other people.” 

“Perfectionism is really the creation of a form of paralysis, and it hurts. It physically feels like tightness, it feels like anxiety. It feels like sleeplessness.” 

Resources:

Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. By Brene Brown 

Connect with Keren Eldad:

Website: https://www.kereneldad.com Facebook: facebook.com/livewithenthusiasm LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keren-eldad-5232033/