Take a leadership selfie this holiday season
Friday, December 19, 2014 at 3:03PM 
Does the number of photos you take with your phone or smart device spike upwards at this time of year? Mine does! More social gatherings, more group or family photos, more end of year and new year stuff.
In between photos this season, you'll likely read plenty of blogs, posts and articles over the coming weeks saying it's a time of reflection, the end of the year, the start of a new one - you know the drill. They'll be saying what a great time of year it is to pause and reflect and journal and ...
How about every time you read (or start to read) one of those articles or posts, just think 'leadership selfie'.
Think of how you hold your camera or digital device out there, and when you're taking a selfie of you and others, or you and a scene or gathering, you're also taking a snap of you and your leadership self.
A leadership selfie.
In writing this blog, I noticed that Tim Milburn also talked leadership selfies last year in relation to self evaluation and checking in with yourself. He said that 2013 was the year of the selfie.
This year to get a wider perspective of you, your leadership and your team (or family, community, group or organisation), think of it like using the selfie stick - that has to be the accessory of 2014!
It gives more perspective, more background, a better view and a broader horizon.
"Click" and "snap" - when you're smiling over the coming weeks when people tell you to 'smile', think 'leadership selfie'.
How am I going?
How did this year go?
Did I do what I wanted to?
What would I do differently next year?
What will I do differently next year?
What about the longer horizon, the wider horizon?
What comes beyond that?
Check that selfie.
Want to take it again?
Look, there's 2015 just up ahead... <smile>