In Heart Leadership if we are to lead with courage we have to Learn. Learn why we may be 'missing the mark'. Learn whay we do very well sometimes and not so well at other times. We need to undersatnd the sources of our fears.

Understand what disguises them from us so that we believe we are angry, frustrated, irritated or confused. 

WE need to be conscious of what is driving us. WE should also understand our own spirits and the nature of spirit if we are to know how to respect the spirits of others.....

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To bring spirit into an organisation requires Courage. It requires Leadership commiting to have courage to be calm amid chaos, to sustain the tension until empowered learning has happened. To maintain personal spirit, to have faith and trust in both people and the process.

Giving orders doesn't require personal courage. That's one of the reasons so many mangers, who give lip service to workers involvement, revert to old modes of working when the going gets tough...

To live the kind of courage required to bring spirit into the workplace requires our organisational leadership to take time to truly experience the relationship with ourselves and others we live and work with. Let's see what this looks, sounds and feels like...

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The Leader who doesn't keep people focused on the organisation's financials as well as their spiritual goals is undermining their trust which jepordises the relationship of the leader to their workers. 

Having a safe relationship is needed for workers to be innovative and creative. The real bottom line is to have finacially healthy, competitive organisationin which there is no need to choose between either financial security and productivity or helping people dicover creativity and meaning in their work - both are critical. 

One way of looking and understanding this is to explore something called the Spirit Cycle......

Link to The Spirit Cycle Graphic:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kidoSf_hOURCBv_WkBy_RxxKVRifvyUY/view?usp=sharing

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In my Human and Organisational Factors research I have found that in organisations with empowering communications they do the following:

• when people talk they are present with each other
• their focus is on the person they are speaking to - completely
• they listen carefully
• their pace of talking is slower and more studied
• the level of respect with which each speaks to the other truly honours both

Let's explore in more depth...


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In my research into Human Factors and leaders who promoted creativity, quality and safety I had the opportunity to travel far and wide. I came across an organisation that had an intuitive leader who told me story after story of innovations that their workers had made to enhance the way that they worked. Some changes improved safety, others improved productivity, others improved engineering of products...

What was 'setting these people on fire'? It was something that was happening at a deep root level, someting we called the Spirit Cycle. It was the way people reltaed to each other in a spirit respecting workplace that produces a self perpetuating energy...

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As Leaders if we are to provide space for a spirit centred community to emerge we need a new tool that seeks to challenge our assumptions, our creativity and our spotaneity rather than to restrict and controlin order toensure outomes with which we are familiar and comfotablw with.

A communication process called dialogue has gained great respect over the last number oy years - let's explore....

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The Power of questions may be the most underrated and overlooked leverage we have on our organisations.

It is a powerful decision making device and a powerful learning tool. Most of us aren't used to thinking in the terms of questions; we have to practice developing information and idea generating questions and learn to 'package' them in an empowering way to bring understanding to the isssue(s) being explored.

When we combine that with creating space for ideas to develop and actively listen to responses we all grow to greater levels of understaning and potenetially limitless possibilities....

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Leaders in spirit respecting workplaces are deeply connected to everyone. Leaders love, value and respect both themselves and others.

Trust and faith in others is a given, it is unconditional. When we seek connection, we give up win-loose games - we seek perspectives on situations that allows all of us to 'win'.....

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Heart Leadership is all about living with integrity to which some would call it "walking the talk" - do what you say you'll do. In heart leadership it's more than that - integrity is a wholeness that encompasses out belief system on at such a deep level that it is impossible to split  that which we believe from how we act. Integrity is believing, thinking, speaking and acting in alighnment with our personal values.....

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