The essence of conscious leadership
Being curious by nature, I always wanted to feel what was the essence of conscious leaders. How do they do what they do? What motivates them? What do they envision? What do they listen to? How do they act before this or that?
Today I begin to share with you a collection of texts with the steps you need to know to be successful on this journey:
Leadership
The ability to express vision (which we explore in depth in our NLP Practitioner), influence and encourage others to achieve results and BE an example!
«Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your purpose.»
Aristóteles
Conscious Leadership
Someone who moves from a centered and aligned state, present, accessing multiple intelligences – the more options you have, the more easily you will understand your way – and living their values in the light of all parts and of something greater.
It is market by:
- Authenticity
- Emotional Intelligence
- Defined intentions
- Responsibility
Assumptions that govern the essence of conscious leaders
- Each BEING is the whole, is part of all other wholes, and in turn is part of the greater whole!
- Each part contains the whole!
- Each part can recreate the whole!
Conscious leaders know that they are not alone, that the Hero’s Journey is now shared together; they know that complementarity exists; they know that to be successful you have to experience situations that are apparently unsuccessful, and they also know how to make the bridge between the two states, to take their learning and grow.
«Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.»
Elon Musk
The essence of conscious leaders calls for something greater, wants to bring something greater to the World. For example, if you want to bring more light to the World, at the same time you are attracting more darkness, the opposite of light. And only after you build the bridge between the two, you are prepared to walk and bring, in fact, more light to the World. It is precisely because we know the opposite of light that we want to bring it to the World. This is called balance.
«Be the change you want to see in the World.»
Mahatma Gandhi
For us, Portuguese, politics aside, it is a blessing to have a conscious leader acting as a President of the Republic! Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa personifies this essence that is so human after all.
After completing the Conscious Leadership and Resilience with Success Factor Modeling course at the University California Santa Cruz (UCSC), the Silicon Valley Learning Journey and having become the first coach certified as Conscious Leadership Coach in Portugal, by Dilts Strategy Group, I know that the essence of these leaders is within reach of all those who walk consciously.
What is your leadership status asking you at this very moment?