$$ Michael$-$ I$\text{'}$m able to relate to all levels within the organization. I enjoy spending time on the floor engaging with the team understanding their challenges and and their frustrations and then being able to provide Solutions and input to that to make their job better and more rewarding. and to really Foster the team environment when I sort of look at the leadership models the one that really aligns with my beliefs is really a servant leader approach and really being able to to be there as a as a servant for those team members and to really help them be the best that they can be$.$

$$ Michael$-$ through my working Career One thread that I've noticed is that as a senior leader, I become disillusioned with an organization when I see the executive leaders not demonstrating the values of the organization not living the bed it's not applying about this. and what that causes is a loss of performance my performance and my commitment to the organization in support of the the current and the future goals. it impacts my brand, because I start to lose the motivation to really commit medium to long term to the organization and it makes me a less effective leader. what I$\text{'}$m really hoping that we can get out of today's session these strategies that I can apply when I$\text{'}$m faced in similar situations in the future that can ensure that I don't lose that sort of brand awareness or that acknowledgment from executive teams that I$\text{'}$m someone that supported the future and that my commitment and my drive to to do the job to the best of my ability continues.

$$ Coach$-$ so what I hear you saying is that when you start feeling like the way the senior leadership team is acting is not aligned with the company values that they're espousing, it causes you to become demotivated and as a result it impacts your performance and then potentially as a result of that, the way you're perceived by that Senior Team.

$$ Coach$-$ Yes. help me understand where the disillusionment comes from. what are you disillusioned about?

$$ Michael $-$ the disillusionment comes about from I feel like I am supporting on living I$\text{'}$m modeling the way when it comes to bringing the values to life in the organization and then when I see the executive team doing the opposite of that where they don't demonstrate the commitments of the values $,$and sometimes they do aspects that are contrary to the values that's where the disillusion comes $.$okay and I feel sometimes that what I tend to do is I project my standards so I have a high bar of expectation Within Myself and the way that I demonstrate my performance and my behavior in the workplace. and at times I feel like I$\text{'}$m rejecting that same standard onto the executive team but I shouldn't really have to because that executive team is actually more senior than I am$.$ and I feel as though they should be the ones that should be setting the stand or the bar higher.

$$ Coach $-$ and so where did that expectation come from that because they're more senior than you they should set the bar higher?

$$ Michael$-$ well I think it comes back from the start of my working career where as a as a supervisor looking up to a manager or a manager looking up to a general manager or general manager looking up to a regional manager $.$so always looking at the more senior person as being a person that needs to have a higher level of standards in the higher level of behavior that really inspires people that becomes almost a you know a motivational aspect of what the person can can sort of work towards.

$$ Coach $-$ right and so you have an expectation around that that those who are more senior who hold the highest leadership positions in the organization behave and act in a particular way at a standard as you put it that's even higher than the one that you set for yourself right. yeah that's your assumption your belief of what should be happening. Correct. and how is that expectation or holding that assumption and that belief working out for you?

$$ Michael $-$ well most of the time that doesn't work out well for me because I see an income grow once there and and that starts me on the cycle of becoming disillusioned with the the organization. I would say however there have been senior leaders that more executive leaders that I've worked with in the past that really have been inspiring and have set up a high standard that I've been able to learn and I've been able to develop from. but that type of leader is very few and far between.

$$ Coach $-$ okay so you know in what you're sharing I$\text{'}$m almost feeling like there's like a you know if so then that type of formula right like if the senior leader is a servant leader or operates at a high standard according to the organizational values, is that model leader that quite frankly we all wish we had right? then you perform at the level that you know you can perform at at the highest level. second scenario is if the leader is one that is not the model leader Citizen and does not walk the talk when it comes to the