Tag: Empowerment

Leading With Mindfulness

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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When you are at peace with yourself, with your inner self, you are alive. When you are flexible in how you live your life, you are alive. You are living, not just existing.

That is how mindful leaders lead their lives. They focus on what is important to them. They are not after what is trending. They are after what is alive, not after what is popular.

According to Keren Tsuk, ‘A mindful leader is a leader who can go beyond the day-to-day activities and connect both to the broader picture and to higher purpose. This means cultivating the ability to be in being, at presence, to listening, and to pausing alongside our doing.’

‘Mindful leadership offers a holistic view that embodies a great deal of flexibility for employees and considers their personal needs.’

‘Organizational control is achieved through existential empowerment, through which employees bring their personal ways of work to the organizational space.’

‘Letting go of control means giving employees space and freedom of action to bring their uniqueness into play with their work.’

‘A key practice of leadership today is giving people room to realize themselves, room to deliver creative ideas and innovation.’

‘Confidence begins when people believe they are capable of coping with the challenges they face, even if they do not know how to face them.’

‘Self-awareness allows us to shift because it allows us to practice in a way that is fundamentally adaptable, cutting out the noise of everything else.’

‘Authentic human connection at work … holds people accountable in a way that a team does not; it allows us to step out of our characters and into ideas that are more valuable, more aligned with innovation.’

‘Mindful leadership … is characterized by an inward awareness of the self-awareness of the self and an outward awareness of a need for supporting the development of others.’

‘A mindful leader … is driven by service for the purpose of business and not only by motives of power or money.’

‘A growth mindset sees everything we do as another experience that allows growth and development as a leader.’

Source:

Keren Tsuk (2021). Mindfully Wise Leadership: The Secret of Today’s Leaders

‘The Path To Boundless Leadership’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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When your people are struggling, don’t leave them alone. When they are lost, bring them back to where they are supposed to be.

Empower them. Show them the way forward. That is what great leaders do.

The question is, ‘Is that what you are doing right now?’

According to Joe Loizzo and Elazar Aslan, ‘If we want to arrive at our full potential in business or life, we must expand our awareness.’

‘When we’re not self-aware, we’re not able to self-correct for our negativity bias and unconsciously close ourselves off to what’s good in ourselves, other people, and the situations we face.’

‘When we interact with others, we can become more focused on who we think they are than on who they truly are or what they’re saying.’

‘When we change the quality of our input and the way we process information, not only does our perspective expand and changes, but we see more clearly and completely what can be changed in our organization or in any given situation.’

‘Developing clarity in any one moment is like standing on a threshold that can lead to a new way of being based in the trait of self-awareness.’

‘When conflicting intentions motivate our actions and reactions, they create a dissonance that detracts from our effectiveness.’

‘What makes boundless leadership different from conventional leadership is that it allows us to observe, check, and adjust what our minds are doing at any given moment.’

‘As boundless leaders, metacognition allows us to push our capacity for self-awareness much further, so we’re reaching the full scope of what is happening in any given situation- with fewer or even no unseen biases or limitations.’

‘The path to boundless leadership is not about accumulating more knowledge and skills or remedying our deficiencies to improve our leadership. Rather, it’s a counterintuitive path that begins with exposing and eliminating self-limiting obscurations, so we can gradually access and develop our unlimited yet dormant potential for thriving.’

‘Compassion is not about being nice or pleasing others- it’s about relating with accurate empathy, concern, and skill to the reality of other people’s lived experience, a vital step toward social cooperation that explains the powerful win-win biology and psychology of positive emotions evident in the new fields of affective neuroscience and positive psychology.’

Source:

Joe Loizzo and Elazar Aslan (2021). Boundless Leadership: The Breakthrough Method to Realize Your Vision, Empower Others & Ignite Positive Change