I start today’s conversation by defining the phrase: WeMentor
Self-Leadership Mastery. What does walking pneumonia, and now bronchitis (aargh),
have to do with self-leadership development? A connection I ponder in groping
with elements of mental sanity and emotional instability. Wellbeing and
self-compassion vs. physical vulnerability and others’ interpretation of my
experience.
I utilize research by Dr. Susanne Cook-Greuter into rare forms we reach in human development maturation. Her 9 stages of Leadership Maturity Framework help shape how I talk directly to you about entrepreneurial leadership development. Determine where you fit along the leadership developmental stages I describe. DOWNLOAD
Within WeMentor, I define self-leadership as self-influence through the
use of behavioral and cognitive strategies to develop and integrate newer and
deeper connections between your mind, brain, and relationships to:
* Become acutely aware of
oneself and others,* Solve life and leadership
riddles,* Have a sense of play and
adventure,* Experience an equal
fascination: before, during, and after breakthrough moments,* Role Model Emotional
Wellbeing,* Direct the mind, through
experience, to a world that expands beyond the material,* Awaken to differing
degrees of spiritual enlightenment, self-actualization, and strive toward the
higher, rarer, stages of leadership development like The Unitive/Ironic stage,
and* Engage in daily practices
and disciplines that lead toward higher levels of leadership and mentoring
maturity and self-leadership mastery.
Stage 9: Unitive/Ironic Stage of
Leadership Development
Self-leadership mastery is a level of rare
maturation that less than 1% of the population reach, even amongst highly
educated, successful thought leaders, according to Dr. Susanne Cook-Greuter.
She developed the Leadership Maturity Framework descriptive of 9 stages of
leadership development I discuss in today’s podcast episode. I am on a mission
to increase that percentage!
Dr. Susanne Cook-Greuter has discovered that,
“People operating at the Unitive/Ironic Stage of development can be found in
all professions, but often prefer to stay behind the scenes or go about their
business quietly from sweeping the entryway, to facilitating a seminar to
overseeing military action. They do what needs doing with great precision,
compassion, wisdom. They can use tough love and be kind depending on what is
required in the moment. They are not afraid to stand up for justice, to act
with conviction and suffer the consequences. But they don’t do it for heroic
personal needs, only for the benefit of others or to inspire others by example.
Their ego is no longer the driver for what they do.
Therefore, they have little to defend and much to observe, absorb, and
appreciate. In general, they are not overly interested in complex explanations
and approaches, and not impressed with or seek titles, honours, and status
symbols, although they may accept them graciously if bestowed. Most Unitive individuals
practice regular meditation and/or are part of a spiritual discipline. They
continue to develop themselves and others to embrace ever greater wisdom,
mercy, and right action.”
You, as an emerging entrepreneurial leader or experienced
one, can move through each stage and reshape how you lead and mentor at each
level.
