If we ignore what is truly important to us, we ignore our greatest source of power. When we fill our lives with activities and attitudes that are congruent with our values, we gain considerable satisfaction and can achieve great things.
Core values are fundamental beliefs that are well-developed and have probably been part of your character for years. When you do something that contradicts these values, your intuition, or gut feeling, will serve as a reminder that something isn’t right. When your work, life activities and goals are in sync with your core values, there…
Effective Leaders know thyself. Effective Leaders know what drives them. They know their personal values and their work values. They know what motivates them and what they are good at. They know their own preferences and their ability to adapt. Effective leaders demonstrate high levels of self-actualizing behaviour. “Based on needs of personal growth, self-fulfillment…
This is a great series of videos I first saw Shaun McCarthy, Chairman of Human Synergistics, New Zealand & Australia deliver at the 2011 Human Synergistics Conference. The aim of this series of dramatisations is to depict organisations at different stages of consciousness with respect to the relationship between CULTURE and PERFORMANCE. In this scene,…
The fastest way to learn a topic is to teach it. Having to teach a topic to another creates an internal standard that is highly motivating. It creates an environment for mastery. Effective leaders create environments for others to develop mastery. What will you allow your people to teach you? Effective leaders demonstrate high levels…
Effective Leadership is an outcome. It is an outcome of work. A special kind of work. It is an outcome of work on yourself. People who are perceived to be great leaders have some things in common. They behave in similar ways. If they behave in certain ways then we can assume that they think in…
There are no real conflicts … only erroneous assumptions. It is ironically empowering knowing that I own all of my assumptions.
Take control of your career with some great advice from CareerCoaching.co.nz:
If your previous experience has developed your current patterns of thinking and behaviour AND you want to change your thinking and behaviour towards more constructive styles THEN you will need to deliberately design and live new experiences.
One way to reduce your reliance on power as a behaviour style is to give the power away. If you do that you are likely to increase your use of Affiliative and Humanistic-Encouraging behaviour. That is probably why the saying works.
If you want to lead more humanistic-encouraging behaviour in your organisation you could start by being more open to being taught by your direct reports.
A great friend and colleague sent this to me today. A wonderful reminder that anything is possible and we should be “off balance on purpose”. We often feel pressure to stay with the patterns of behaviour we know. The ones that have kept us safe. We stick with these behaviours even if they don’t work for us…
Fire engines are really important. When someone’s house or business is burning down or there is a major problem it will often be a fire engine that “saves the day”. That is why they have real value. But, when things are quiet, fire engines just sit there doing nothing. What is worse is that they…
I was once given a piece of sage advice. I can’t remember where it came from or from whom. It went something like this …. “If your lawnmower breaks down and you don’t know how to fix it just keep looking at it until you see the solution. You will be amazed at what you…
