The true success of leadership development programs transcends quantifiable improvements or subjective evaluations. It leads to profound personal growth, fostering happiness, meaning, and vitality in work and life.
The true success of leadership development programs transcends quantifiable improvements or subjective evaluations. It leads to profound personal growth, fostering happiness, meaning, and vitality in work and life.
Effective business communication is not a mere business tool; it is the lifeblood of modern enterprises. It’s the force that powers professional success, enriches relationships, and drives organisational growth.
To be self-aware is to be mindful and conscious of what is going on inside us, then learning how to manage our experiences and habits to act more clearly, deliberately and wisely in real time, not after we have acted, when it’s too late.
The only way to develop real leadership credibility is by actually walking our talk, committing to action and being held accountable for what we commit to.
A massive survey identified 225 leadership values and characteristics, and refined them to a top 20. They then conducted a 30-year survey asking 100,000 participants to choose the characteristics they most admired in leaders.
The more we realise that relieving stress is an inside-out job, the more capacity we develop to deal with external circumstances and perform and lead with greater internal peace and wisdom.
The purpose of holding values is not to pretend that identifying with them alone makes us good people. Rather, it’s to help us change our behaviour to grow in the direction of our values.
The only way to escape our unconscious programming and live more consciously and congruently is to clearly define our values, and then strive to live in accordance with them.
An organisation can spend millions of dollars training its leaders in horizontal skills and knowledge, but it’s a poor investment unless it’s preceded and supported by vertical growth.
While improving horizontal competencies may require repeated practice, it typically requires no growth in self-awareness or self-regulation.