You are valued everywhere you are both needed and wanted.

There are people in your life and work that need you but don’t want you. Likewise, there are people that want you, but don’t need you. The challenge to being valued as a leader is to stand in those places where you are both needed and wanted. By doing that you stand in your opportunities.

So many of us, myself included, have spent too much time trying to convince the people around us that they should need and want us, instead of just being where we are needed and wanted the most.

If you stand where you are both needed and wanted, those you lead in those opportunities and those standing on the sidelines looking in will experience and recognize your value as a leader.

When it comes to being valued and having the opportunities to value those you lead, you simply need to stand where you are both needed and wanted.

Be valued. Be where you are needed and wanted.