The secret to cultivating a great business culture is transformational leadership. As a leader, when you invest in leadership training, your employees are left feeling valued and connected with what the organisation is working towards.
Keep Your Team On Track With 200 Percent Accountability
Several years ago, a major Australian bank was accused of having a toxic culture. The CEO declared in the media that the middle management was the cause of the poor culture. I still remember how perplexed I was when I read that. The CEO was publicly demonstrating...
Mindful Leadership: The work of inner transformation for ourselves and others
The world is desperate for great leadership—more specifically, for mindful leadership. Suffering abounds in our personal and professional lives. The greatest opportunity for leaders is not to accomplish monumental tasks but rather to alleviate suffering. Given that...
Mindful leaders pay attention
Once a philosopher visited an enlightened Zen master. Eager to get to the heart of the matter, the philosopher asked, ‘What is the essential teaching of Zen?’ ‘Attention,’ the teacher replied. The scholar was taken aback by this unexpected answer. ‘I didn’t ask you...
Why self-awareness is critical for leadership development training
As a self-awareness and leadership coach, I don’t think the leaders I’ve worked with have had much of an idea of what they were taking on when they said yes to authentic, mindful leadership development training. They did not realise that the familiar ground they were...
How to create an innovative organisational culture
In their book The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner write, “Leaders make risk safe, as paradoxical as that might sound. They turn experiments into learning opportunities. They don’t de ne...
3 reasons why self-awareness is essential for leadership training
I define self-awareness as an awareness of our thoughts, emotions, body sensations, and environment in the present moment. It is paying attention in the present moment purposefully and non-judgementally. It is experiencing and accepting reality as it really is—not how...
Absentmindedness prevents mindful leadership
Mindful leadership requires presence—being in tune with our feelings, thoughts, and experiences in the present moment. The value of staying present can be brought home by understanding what we habitually do in its place: engage in absentmindedness. Much of the time...
Mindful leadership development is discovering who we already are
When I started my personal transformation journey at the age of 22, I had no idea what I was signing up for. I started taking classes in practical philosophy, depth psychology and mindfulness meditation. I thought this would somehow make me special. What I did not...
Transformational leadership requires courage to follow our values
Living according to our values is a process of maturation that takes courage. Without that courage, transformational leadership is next to impossible. At times we may live values loosely but for the wrong reasons. We may comply with organisational values out of fear...
