Unlocking Your Leadership Superpower

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Listen to this week’s podcast episode, Ep.202: Leadership and Your Superpower, Why Your Unique Strengths are the Secret to Success, with Sir Evans, using the player below, or click here.

Leadership Starts With Knowing What You Bring to the Table

Most people can name their weaknesses faster than their strengths. But the funny thing is, when you ask great leaders what changed their careers, almost none of them say ‘fixing my weaknesses.’ They say things like: ‘I finally learned how to use what I’m good at.’ This week’s episode of Leading with Integrity is all about that shift.

I’m joined by Speaker, Consultant, and Founder of the Superpower Planner; Sir Evans. If you’ve ever wished you could get more done in less time, or wanted a better grip on what motivates you, or wondered why some leaders create clarity while others create chaos, you’ll get something out of this conversation.

Sir helps people uncover their unique strengths (which he calls ‘your superpower’) and build systems around them, not generic routines, not productivity hacks, but approaches that match their natural wiring. In our conversation this week, we covered productivity, motivation, clarity, structure, the role of planning in leadership, and how your personality isn’t a barrier to success but a map for how to build it.

Purpose, Passion, Superpowers and the Way You Work

Sir Evans talks about superpowers not as buzzwords, but as the everyday strengths that shape how someone thinks, solves problems, communicates, and leads. For some people, their superpower is focus. For others, it’s connection, creativity, calmness under pressure, or the ability to turn messy ideas into clean plans.

What matters is recognising your pattern, not the pattern someone else told you to follow.

There are a few threads that run through this conversation:

• Your superpower is usually something you overlook. Most of us assume our strengths are normal because they feel easy. If you naturally organise chaos, you assume everyone can. If you can energise a room, you assume it’s no big deal. If you can break hard tasks into simple pieces, you assume that’s obvious. But the things that come easily to you are most likely the same things other people in the team find difficult. And may be exactly what set you apart as a leader. Recognising them allows you to position yourself properly and to stop forcing yourself into work that drains you.

• Purpose sits underneath performance. One of the most helpful ideas in this conversation is the link between purpose and energy. When people feel disconnected from purpose, their energy collapses. Productivity slows, motivation thins out, and planning becomes difficult because there’s nothing moving you forward. Managers often misinterpret this as laziness or lack of discipline, but more often than not, the problem isn’t effort; it’s direction.

• Structure supports your strengths, not the other way around. Sir builds planning systems around how people naturally function. If you thrive with consistency, a chaotic calendar will undermine you. If you do your best thinking in solitude, a day full of meetings will wear you down long before you finish your tasks. Leaders who understand their strengths don’t try to copy the habits of someone they admire, instead they build habits that amplify who they already are.

Leadership Through Motivation and Momentum

Another core theme this week is motivation, specifically, the difference between leaders who push themselves through sheer force and leaders who build environments that naturally keep them moving.

Motivation is built through clarity, most leaders underestimate how much mental energy is lost to vague tasks and half-shaped priorities. When everything feels urgent, nothing truly is. When everything feels important, nothing moves.

Sir challenges leaders to get specific: What are you actually trying to achieve?
What does success look like today, not six months from now?
What are the one or two things that really matter?

Leaders who create clarity for themselves model clarity for their teams. Productivity begins with definition.

Momentum grows through simplicity; there is danger in overcomplicating your plans. Leaders often try to carry too much at once, too many projects, too many ideas, too many expectations. But complexity kills momentum, the leaders and teams who move fastest often aren’t the ones doing the most but those doing the right things, consistently.

Motivation without strategy is noise, but strategy without motivation is inertia. The sweet spot is where purpose meets planning:

• You know what you’re working toward.

• You know what step to take next.

• You’re working with your strengths, not against them.

Planning That Actually Works

Planning is one of those topics that sounds boring until you remember the alternative: chaos, reactivity, and frustration disguised as “just being busy.” Sir Evans approaches planning as a leadership tool, not a personal productivity method. The point isn’t to fill a calendar, it’s to build a rhythm that supports growth.

Leaders need space to think, not just time to act. A diary packed with tasks is not a sign of importance; it’s a sign that your crucial ‘thinking time’ has been squeezed out. Leaders who never step back eventually lose the ability to see patterns, coach well, or make sound decisions.

Plan for the way you naturally work, some leaders think best in the morning. Others only hit their stride after lunch. Some need quiet. Others need movement, noise, back and forth. Some people process ideas through writing; others through conversation.

A good plan doesn’t just help you organise work, it helps you regulate stress. Clear plans reduce anxiety while vague plans increase it. Leaders underestimate how many team issues stem from people guessing what’s expected of them. Remember: when a leader is clear, people relax; and when people relax, they perform at their best.

What Leaders Can Take Into This Week

This episode is packed with ideas, but if you apply even one or two of them, you’ll feel a shift. Here are a few to start with:

1. Identify your superpower: What do you do easily that others find difficult? Start there.

2. Remove one unnecessary task from your week: Not everything deserves space on your calendar.

3. Define success for the next two days: Write down what ‘done’ looks like.

4. Align your schedule with your energy: Stop forcing yourself into patterns that don’t suit you.

5. Lead by amplifying strengths (yours and your team’s): Weakness-focused leadership rarely brings out the best in anyone.

In Summary… Your Superpower is Your Leadership Advantage

The best leaders aren’t the ones who try to be everything. They’re the ones who work with who they actually are. Sir Evans brings a refreshing message: productivity isn’t about squeezing more in, it’s about getting more out of what you naturally bring to the table.

When leaders understand themselves, planning gets easier, motivation gets stronger, and decision-making gets clearer; leadership becomes less about pushing and more about guiding.

If you take anything from this week’s episode, let it be this: your strengths aren’t quirks, they’re fuel. And when you build your leadership around them, you don’t just work better, you lead better.

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Thanks for reading again this week, you can give the full conversation a listen now at: https://smartlink.ausha.co/leading-with-integrity/ep-202-leadership-and-your-superpower-why-your-unique-strengths-are-the-secret-to-success-with-sir-evans-leadership

Or if you prefer video, then here’s the YouTube link: https://youtu.be/K87nDWTBycU

I hope you’ll be back next week, when I’ll be talking coaching and grounded leadership with my next guest Anil Erkan.

Until then: Be a Leader Not a Boss,

- David

In case you don’t know me that well, I’m David Hatch and I’m here to help new managers and first-time founders with their leadership skills, so they can become leaders not bosses, lead with integrity, and build happier, higher performing teams, more effective organisations, and, ultimately: successful businesses.

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