Leadership = Mastering Relationships and Performance

"We need leaders of greater effectiveness and integrity, mastery and maturity, courage and compassion, competence and character, consciousness and wisdom..." ~ Mastering Leadership by Bob Anderson and Bill Adams

We need to evolve and elevate our leadership capabilities to meet the increasing complexity of our world today. 🪜+🧬

To do this, we need a balance between great relationships and task-oriented achievement. Combining these skills and getting really good at them, results in both leadership effectiveness AND high-level business performance. 🤝+ 📋

Research from The Leadership Circle demonstrates a strong connection between operating from creative competencies and leadership effectiveness versus operating with reactive competencies. These two areas can be defined this way:

Creative competencies - key leadership behaviours and internal assumptions that lead to high fulfillment and high achievement in leadership (e.g. relating, self-awareness, authenticity, systems awareness and achievement). Reactive strategies - self-limiting beliefs and assumptions that limit effectiveness, authentic expression, and empowering leadership (e.g. complying, protecting and controlling).

When we increase our ability to operate from a creative space with competencies in relating, self-awareness, authenticity, systems awareness and achievement, our leadership effectiveness improves. When we over-use reactive strategies like complying, protecting or controlling, we are less effective as leaders.

Extensive studies from the Positive Intelligence indicates that there are 5 key skills that are accessed from the creative side of our brain. 🔑

❤️Empathy - Practice showing deep empathy for yourself and others by

connecting the true essence of yourself and others.

🤔Curiosity - Approach challenges with a beginner’s mind, deep curiosity,

openness, awe, fascination, and wonder.

💡Innovation - Generate multiple ideas with creative approaches to fuel a cycle

of innovative thinking.

🧭Navigation - Sort out what truly matters by connecting to your deeper sense

of meaning, values, and purpose.

🎬Action - Move into action that is calm, clear and laser focussed in a way

that is both fierce and fearless.

So where do you start when shifting your leadership approach?

One way is to gain an understanding of your current leadership impact. To elevate your leadership, you need to know where you stand. A 360 assessment can provide a strong indication of how others experience your leadership. This, in turn, allows for a clear roadmap of which behaviours to change to maximize your impact.

Another way is to work on your inside game is by developing your mental muscles. When you strengthen the part of your brain that serves you and quiet the part that sabotages you, you will handle your leadership challenges with a more positive mindset, and less stress.

Working on both the outside and inside game will increase your well-being while achieving high-performance as an exceptional leader.

I can help you with this. Reach out to learn more.