Helping People to Dream. Dare. and Dazzle their world. Empowering Leaders without title to enable their family, community and organisation to be Stronger. Smarter. Safer!
Confidence is somethingthat so many prople struggle with. It's the lack of confiddence that holds them back from doing the things they want to do or become the personthey want to be, inhibiting them in social events and prevents them from obtaining new skills.I beieve the thing that confuses some people is that ther's a difference between the kind of confidence that is given externally and the kind of confidene that that is generated internally. It's the internal confidence that gives the solid foundation which empoweres us to extend our self-limiting beliefs and reach new heights. Let's explore in more depth....Stronger, Smarter, Safer
For many there is a gap between the way people think and the way they behave. I've found that when your mental and physical sides are out of balance you can feel lost, have a sense you're failing to reach your full potential or end up making the same poor decisions time and time again.Over the years in my coaching journeys around the globe I've mused over this more and more. I believe that many people are far too quick to disconnect body and mind and have been taught to think they are somehow seperate. Having them working as a cohesive unit allows extraordinary performance - above and beyond expectations. Over the coming podcaste I'll share my behavioural leadership insights from diverse cultures and personalities that allows people from the Boardroom to the frontline to reach their full potential whilst 'sitting in the HOT Seat' . Starting with my journey in the HOT Seat with its 'highs and lows' - learing from my mistakes and 'coming out the other side' stronger, smarter, safer....Stronger, Smarter, Safer
o be leaders who inspire courage, we have to be concious. We must awaken fromthe spells that autopilot modes have cast upon us. From the place I have called our heart our spirit, our passion and enthusiasm allow us to be leaders because people want to follow and not because we contrive to make themwhat we think is safe.From that place of being true to ourself we can come to live the integrity of leadership that demands we be true to others becuse we are speaking from our authentic self. Our heart is our place of inspiration and knowingness that gives us courage to speak and live our truth.Stronger, Smarter, Safer
Until leaders are willing to let go of their fear and discover the courage of their hearts, our workplaces will continueto stifle the natural forces that produce energy, vitality, flexibility, resilience, learning and excellence.Programmes that are implemented on a foundation of fear are doomed to failure. The sustained energyfor flexibility and resposveness for an ever chnaing world will never emerge.The sustained energy will only be discovered when we have the courage to seek it with the understanding that we can't know whatt form it will take until it emerges - let's explore...Stronger, Smarter, Safer
Regardless of where we are in an organisation, what our role may be or where we sit in an organisational chart - the key to being a leader without title is to be our true selves, speaking from our heart.A maturing 'inner wonderchild' soars and shines brightly with all our unique natural qualities rather than wearing the masks our egos may have created to protect us on the path of Fear....Stronger, Smarter, Safer
Work can be energising, exhilarating, and a place of learning and growth. It can provide and outlet for our creativity. Creativity is, among other things, learning. Creativity is learning new ways of looking at old probelems and learning new ways of working to produce better results. The uniqueness that each of us brings to the workplace is the fuel for creativity.That uniqueness is part of the Wonder Child and part of our spirit that sprks the fire within us at work, home and play....Stronger, Smarter, Safer
If we wish to build an organisation that leads from the heart we want to build a spirit respecting workplace. This leads us to the transformation of the role of our senior managers. We shift our thinking from focusing on the product, the task, or what we call the tangible outcome to being in service to the people whoc make the prodcut, perform the task, or produce the tangible outcomes. We shift our role from sustaining a system to being in service to our joint vsision. Leaders have the concsiousness, the commitment and the courage to see that the change that they see in their 'minds eye' become a reality...Stronger, Smarter, Safer
In recent years It has become increasingly apparent that our organisations can't make the transition required by the fast pace of change in the world except under one condition: Change must happen through every level within the organisation almost simutlataneously.What this comes down to is that people all know what they want the organisation to be, they also have the personal commitment to be leaders without title and personally make a difference in making it happen... HOT Leadership
Within Heart Leadership we 'see things as we would like them to be' and then having the courage to be the change to make it happen.On the path of courage, there is a time when a leader comes to know what is possible. With their heart as a guide they have a knowing feeling "If I can think it, It can happen". Their heart spirit brings them peace, inspiration, faith, trust and the complete belief in themselves and others. Let's explorein more depth....HOT Leadership
When our businesses choose to lead from the heart and choose the Path of Courage - building a spirit respectine workplace, there are also prices to pay as well as rewards to reap - a balance:give up being driven by events and accept being guided by our vision and values.give up doing it alone and being part of a team.give up our need to control peolple and outcomes and empower others.give up fighting the 'white water' and be in it; have trust and faith our that our skills and expertise will carry us to outcomes we'll see as positive.give up what is known and familiar and have the courage to explore the unknown....HOT Leadership
The ability to lead for the heart and live from spirit is the result of choosing to live consciously. Being committed to living consciously in a society that mostly muddle through in auto-pilot isn't easy.There is a price to pay for choosing to live consciously. A friend has said that to live consciously is to be more charitable. Unlike the the grudging donation made form obligation, true charitable giving comes from the heart. We still pay she says, but it is charitbale because we willingly choose to pay and it feels good when we do so.Whater the term we use - there is still a price to be paid - let's explore furhter...HOT Leadership
I have discovered that the things I should be doing were the product of my rules. Importantly, doing things kept me insulated form the conscious part of me that would have let me discover that there were no rules. It was a long time before I could sit and listen to my inner wisdom. When I listened to my inner wisdom I discovered incredible things....HOT Leadership
Many believe that all human behaviours are motivated by either fear or desire. I believe that fear and desire/want are nearly always related. Likewise, with almost every fear, there is an implied desire. attached to it. The associated fear may be as simple as being afraid we won't get what we want/desire - it is still there. I believe that until we name that fear and come to terms with it and make peace with it we never achieve wjat we are after in a sustainable way - let's explore.... Empowering Resource: Overcoming Fear with NLPhttps://nlpco.com/how-to-overcome-fear-with-nlp/ HOT Leadership
Peace is an essential part of our spirits. When we live and lead on our path of courage we become to know a deep level of peace that goes through every part of our bodies, We may still be afraid, angry and frustrated by at events of teh day, however, guiding us like a rudder is a deep sense of peace that tells us we are on the right track. This peace is generated by a inner connection to our authentic core made possible by self-awareness and conscious living...HOT Leadership
When we plan for the future, we try to project what conditions will be and determine in advance how to act to achieve a future goal that we established some time in the past.However, when we prepare in the present to respond in the future we focus on our vision and values and on learning. We focus on identifying a core set of questions that will tell us if we are on track that enables resilience.Our vision defines for us what we want to be. Our values how we want to do that.....HOT Leadership
When we are not present and not aware, we can lose connection. When we think about something we are going to do or something we should have done differently, we are affecting all the relationships of the connection that allows us to build trust, faith, cooperation, connection, and community.For most of us, going mindlessly through the day is so habitual that it takes a lot of practice to start being truly present - let's explore in more depth...Empowering ResourceThe Power of Now, Eckhart Tollehttps://newearth.university/resources/the-power-of-now-by-eckhart-tolle-unabridged-pdf/HOT Leadership
When we don't address and resolve conflict in a healthy way that respects everyone involved, misplaced anger almost always results. As human beigs, when we keep surpressing emotions around unresolved conflict, pressure builds, over time we becomd more and more volatile and can explode over the most minor of things.When we want to truly resolve conflicts so that relationships improveand people work tohether in a mutually spirit respecting way, we must operatefrom our spirits. Let's explore....HOT Leadership
If we are to be completely in a relationship, we have to be whole, aware individuals who know what to feeland what we want as well as what we think, and we have to truly want to be in a community with others. I believe we can't come into the relationship dependant on others to get approval to make us feel whole.When we come to relationships as whole individuals committed to acepting others in our community for who they are, as they are, we are committing to the relationship rather than ourselves, without giving up ourselves...HOT Leadership
In building relationships it's important to know what gets in the way of connectiont. To connect with others, we must be completely in the relationship - we must bting our true, whole, authentic self, complete with beliefs, values and emotions, to other that we live and work with.We risk being vulnerable - instead of mechanically saying, doing, or feeling what we believe we 'should' say, do, or feel, we honestly sharewhat we are actually feeling. Let's explore in more depth....Data on Organisational MaturityEnergy Sector Hearts and Minds Toolkithttps://heartsandminds.energyinst.org/toolkitCore-Values-Behavioural-DictionaryPlease copy and paste above link in your web browser to see an example of unsatisfactory, below average, average, good and excellent behaviours for core values of Respect, Teamwork, Continual Improvement and Innovation that enhances connection..HOT Leadership
On the Path of Courage, there are aswers to the many barriers we encounter on the path of fear. When the Path of Courage is taken, empowered by powerful questions, new and different ways of doing things are always discovered. Each new venture/challenge coming over the horizon is an opportunity to learn and grow.When we question what we know, we continuse to develop a higher sense of kowingness - we come closer to discovering our real truth."If the opposite of what we believed to be true was true - what would that mean for us?"Resurces worth ExploringLadder of growth - Making Growth Visiblehttps://ladderofgrowth.io/Leading with Questions, Marquardt, MJhttps://davekraft.org/wp-content/uploads/Leading-with-Questions-.pdf HOT Leadership
A considerable amount of my time in business has been helping individual Leaders and groups of Leaders discover what they didn't know they knew and also what they didn'r know they didn't know - tose things they believed to be true and were false. The consious mind has the ability to process about 7 pieces of informayion per minute. Our unconcious mind can process three hundred thousand pieces of information in about the same time!Most of this vast databas of information is carried aound in our uncoscious mind, that part that 'we don't know', or the right brain, the non linier, nonverbal part of our brains. At any moment we are exposed to two billion pieces of information. All of this information helps me helps me empower groups discover what they don't know - let's do a 'deeper dive' into this marvelous world..HOT Leadership
We only know what we know - what we have been taught by books, by others and by our expereinces. That is all we know. Or is it? Is it possible that we don't know what we belive we know? That we know we don't know we know? Once is was sure I knew how to get ahead: get a good education, find a good company, work hard, do what I am told and be loyal... In lee than a geneation, most of what I and other thought we knew began crumbling - compaies downsize, rightsize, flatten, reengineer,and decentrlalise. They leave million of people scrambling,often bloodeid and bruised.... What can we do to 'turn the tide'?HOT Leadership
Much of our world isn't very spiritual or positive - it is filld with negativity and fear. We are bombarded daily with negativity on a conscious and subliminal level most of our days. As the pace of doing quickens, we become more and more diatant from our being and from our values and slip more into reactive doing.rather than conciously accessing our unconcious for inner wisdom, we slip into letting our unconcious run out lives as fate! We get furhter and furhter from our heart consiousness. When we spend some of our time in reflection we can take a detached view of our world and begin to make some sense of it and see it throught the lens of our heart. Let's explore....HOT Leadership
Dreams are another door to access our inner wisdom and can be considered a goodway to receive message - sometimesa very importnat message from our subconcious.Dreams are are our most effectivesource of informationthat we are taking into our unconscious minds at a rate of 43,000 times that our conscious minds process data.Ther are countless ways for people to access their inner heart, their spirit. There are no right or wrongs ways, only different ways - let's ex[plore some.....HOT Leadership
People ask, "How do you get in touch with your heart, your spirit?" I belive the answer lies in being, - just being, in self knowledge and self awareness.It lies in listening to our inner wisdom and trusting that we have the answers. In trusting that we can know what we don't know. It lies inin giving up the past and choosing to live in the present.....Interesting ReadingThe Power of Now, Eckhart Tollehttps://archive.org/download/ThePowerOfNowEckhartTolle_201806/The%20Power%20Of%20Now%20-%20Eckhart%20Tolle.pdfHOT Leadership
We need to remember that we are all programmed with a lifetime of instructions, socialistation and linear, analytical, quantitative thinking. One of the greatest challenges we face when learning to lead from our hearts is to become aware when our automatic responses are active. We then begin to understand what is needed in mustering courage to keep the faith in Heart Leadership....HOT Leadership
An important part of discovering inner knowing, heart knowing, spiritual knowing is learning to be aware of our ourselves. Listening to our inner knowingness.Most of us have been socialised to ignore or stifle the gifts our bodies send us to help us be awater of our heart knowing - the tear in the eye, the lump in the throat,irritabiliuty or nervous enrgy. For some it may be abig stept o become conscious to the fact that we are having heart/spiritual reaction that says "There's something that we should examine more closely"When we learn to recognise that our heartis trying to communicate with us, we have come a long way towards achieving spiritual knowing and rediscovering our inner 'Wonder Child' - let's explore...ReferenceJohn Bradshaw, Homecominghttps://cdn.bookey.app/files/pdf/book/en/homecoming-by-john-bradshaw.pdfHOT Leadership
When we lead on the path of courage, complex situations, confusion and apparent chaos don't deter us from our learning. From out heart we know there is deep order in what is happening.If we have the openness, the patience and the courage to ask questions and generate more and more information, we put ourselves and our organisations in the position to begin to see order in the chaos. We begin to see how how events and conditions relate to other events and conditions.....Good ReadingCan't See the Wood for the Trees?: Landscaping Your Life to Get Back on Track, Alison Smith, (Findhorn Press)We, Robert A. Johnson, (Harper Collins)HOT Leadership
A key component of successful organisations is The Heart within the operations, the glue, the spirit that presents itself as a positive belief in people, and a belief that the organisation can handle whatever comes its way. There is an intentional consciousness and commitment to live from that belief system. This apllies in all walks of life - highlighted recently at the winter olympics.Good ReadingSusan Jefffers, Feel the Fear and Beyond (ISBN: 9780712608831)https://susanjeffers.com/books/feel-the-fear-and-beyond/HOT Leadership
In Heart Leadership if we are to lead with courage we have to Learn. Learn why we may be 'missing the mark'. Learn whay we do very well sometimes and not so well at other times. We need to undersatnd the sources of our fears.Understand what disguises them from us so that we believe we are angry, frustrated, irritated or confused. WE need to be conscious of what is driving us. WE should also understand our own spirits and the nature of spirit if we are to know how to respect the spirits of others.....Dream Dare Dazzle
To bring spirit into an organisation requires Courage. It requires Leadership commiting to have courage to be calm amid chaos, to sustain the tension until empowered learning has happened. To maintain personal spirit, to have faith and trust in both people and the process.Giving orders doesn't require personal courage. That's one of the reasons so many mangers, who give lip service to workers involvement, revert to old modes of working when the going gets tough...To live the kind of courage required to bring spirit into the workplace requires our organisational leadership to take time to truly experience the relationship with ourselves and others we live and work with. Let's see what this looks, sounds and feels like...Dream Dare Dazzle
The Leader who doesn't keep people focused on the organisation's financials as well as their spiritual goals is undermining their trust which jepordises the relationship of the leader to their workers. Having a safe relationship is needed for workers to be innovative and creative. The real bottom line is to have finacially healthy, competitive organisationin which there is no need to choose between either financial security and productivity or helping people dicover creativity and meaning in their work - both are critical. One way of looking and understanding this is to explore something called the Spirit Cycle......Link to The Spirit Cycle Graphic:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kidoSf_hOURCBv_WkBy_RxxKVRifvyUY/view?usp=sharingDream Dare Dazzle
In my Human and Organisational Factors research I have found that in organisations with empowering communications they do the following:when people talk they are present with each othertheir focus is on the person they are speaking to - completelythey listen carefullytheir pace of talking is slower and more studiedthe level of respect with which each speaks to the other truly honours bothLet's explore in more depth...Dream Dare Dazzle
In my research into Human Factors and leaders who promoted creativity, quality and safety I had the opportunity to travel far and wide. I came across an organisation that had an intuitive leader who told me story after story of innovations that their workers had made to enhance the way that they worked. Some changes improved safety, others improved productivity, others improved engineering of products...What was 'setting these people on fire'? It was something that was happening at a deep root level, someting we called the Spirit Cycle. It was the way people reltaed to each other in a spirit respecting workplace that produces a self perpetuating energy...Dream Dare Dazzle
As Leaders if we are to provide space for a spirit centred community to emerge we need a new tool that seeks to challenge our assumptions, our creativity and our spotaneity rather than to restrict and controlin order toensure outomes with which we are familiar and comfotablw with.A communication process called dialogue has gained great respect over the last number oy years - let's explore....Dream Dare Dazzle
The Power of questions may be the most underrated and overlooked leverage we have on our organisations.It is a powerful decision making device and a powerful learning tool. Most of us aren't used to thinking in the terms of questions; we have to practice developing information and idea generating questions and learn to 'package' them in an empowering way to bring understanding to the isssue(s) being explored.When we combine that with creating space for ideas to develop and actively listen to responses we all grow to greater levels of understaning and potenetially limitless possibilities....Dream Dare Dazzle
Leaders in spirit respecting workplaces are deeply connected to everyone. Leaders love, value and respect both themselves and others.Trust and faith in others is a given, it is unconditional. When we seek connection, we give up win-loose games - we seek perspectives on situations that allows all of us to 'win'.....Dream Dare Dazzle
Heart Leadership is all about living with integrity to which some would call it "walking the talk" - do what you say you'll do. In heart leadership it's more than that - integrity is a wholeness that encompasses out belief system on at such a deep level that it is impossible to split that which we believe from how we act. Integrity is believing, thinking, speaking and acting in alighnment with our personal values.....Dream Dare Dazzle
Spirit respecting Heart Leadership sees the possibilites in every situation and this makes risk taking so much easier. An environment that encourages people to experiment with possibilites and to make mistakes is a fertile ground for creativity and innovation...Dream Dare Dazzle
Traditional Managers autopilot there way through business - particularily through their behaviours and decisions. They operate from assumptions and 'certainties' that haven't been challenged for a very long time.When we Lead from the Heart, we want as many people as possible challenging as many realities as possible, contriburing as much pertinent information as possible and collaborately making the best decsions for the organisation as possible...Dream Dare Dazzle
It has been said by Nancy Anderson that "courage is not the absence of of fear: rather it is the ability to take action in th face of fear."I have found that's what it's like in introducing heart/spiritual leadership within the workplace. When we recognise we don't live in 'little boxes' of work lives, community lives, lives as workers and employers and lives as parents, spouses or children. We live in one life where the same values and behaviours apply to all then we experience and inner peace. We have freedom to truly express ourselves in all avenues of our lives - our heart sings and we truly are leaders without title.....Dream Dare Dazzle
I believe that leading a spirit-respecting workplace is easier than managing a traditional organisation - it tends to take on a life of its own.However, at the same time, leading this kind of workplace is also harder, particularily for those of us that are compelled to control the uncontrollable. (smile).Most of us have clear ideas about what should happen and not happen in organisations and our reponsibilites as leaders within them. These become the rules by which we do our work and simplify the workplace. It simplifies the way we do businesss by keeping everything on a superficial level.When we choose to build a spirit-respecting and spirit-nurturing organisation, we give up the illusion of simplicity. We build an environment for courageous leadership that encompasses everyone. WE make it safe to explore, to try newthings, to stretch our creativity. Time now to explore the principles.Additional InsightsSpirituality: The Next Frontier of Workplace Wellbeing | Susannah Healy.https://youtu.be/MosvBKul270Dream Dare Dazzle
For me work bridges the gap between the spiritual and the rational in each of us. A gap that is continualy looking for wholeness and completion. Spirit is the fire within each and everyone of us that ignites us with passion, purpose, love, energy and courage. This fire lives in us and sets us alive and ablaze when we are near our work - not just our job or career but a personal calling or purpose that is spiritually and emotionally sustaining.....Dream Dare Dazzle
Spirituality, distinct from religion is a challenging topic because it can be a very importand part of religion in its pure form.Respectfully discussing the spiritual nature of people without invading the realm of personal religious freedom or being perceived as been trying to convert someone to a sectarian religion is even more challenging.If spirituality isn't necessarily religion, then what is it? How does it look, sound and feel like within the workplace? Let's explore in more depth.....Additional DataThe Power of NOW - Eckhart Tollehttps://rootsandbright.com/the-power-of-now-by-eckhart-tolle/Dream Dare Dazzle
I believe there are two paths of leadership - the path of fear and the path of Courage and Heart. Heart Leadership where people are connected though spirit, joy and passion in their work.To follow the path of Heart Leadership takes courage it's where we challenge old assumptions that may keep us from discovering new posibilites. We look at similar situations and explore with others how it will be different this time. We balance the quantifiable with the intuitive with vision and values, and with our belief in our ability to produce a positive result.Let's discover more...Resource: CourageLimitless - Chris HemsworthDream Dare Dazzle
People who lead from the Heart have learned courage. They have discovered 'spirit' - that buoyant energy deep within that flourishes when what athletes call "in the flow" where everything seems possible. It's harnessing that energy and enriching your and everyones life. Let's explore....Dream Dare Dazzle
Heart Leaders are real human beings beings leading real people. Leaders who lead from the heart have a high level of self-awareness.They know who they are at their core - the good, the bad and the ugly. They don't crave for new things to do like a drug that keeps parts of themselves in wee boxes - let's explore....Dream Dare Dazzle
We/you have an oppotuity to awaken up to the life we/you are following just now. If it's not fully working for you, if it seems as if it's "running away from you" you have an opportunity to take control today. Follow the x 7 'P's' of Transformational leadership and retake control of your personal and professional life. Let's take action with:PurposePromisesProjectsPersuasionPraisingPerseverancePreparationAdditional Reference DataMindNode Next Transformational Leadership Mind Maphttps://www.icloud.com/share/0aeTUs-AIFeLC5-eoEcBhm0WA#Transformational_LeadershipPlease click on the '>' to expand the Principle 'leg'. When you highlight the Root principle click on the '
Is failing to prepare the death call of transformational leadership?Yes, but not in the manner you may be accustomed to. The planning I'm recommending is the planning for undergoing the individual transformation required to lead the organisational transformation you're looking for - for your personal and professional life.People at work or in your personal life who have achieved something extraordinary and who live lives known as rewarding and uplifting have a clear and compelling plan for achieving what's important to them - let's explore in more details.....
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