The Art of Self Leadership
Question: What is the essential component of successful leadership that is missing from most development processes?
Answer: The ability to lead and influence oneself to greater self- awareness, self-management and improved social/relational performance
Problem: Positional leaders (managers) incapable of positively influencing others. You cannot export what you do not have. Leadership is the axis of influence. ‘Managers’ unable to lead themselves are flawed in their ability to lead others.
Outcome: People leave managers not organisations. Poor retention of talent, declining productivity, decreasing profit margins and a spiraling cost base.
Requirement: Develop leaders gifted in the emotional and spiritual intelligence to lead themselves and influence others beyond existing limitations to achieve sustainable high performance.
Solution: If leaders are to influence others to greater success, they must first experience it for themselves. Contrary to popular belief, leaders are made not born. Leading oneself effectively is the very essence of powerful leadership.
Leadership is a people business. It requires skills beyond the technicalities of forecasts, measurements, process and numbers.
Self-leadership is the foundation of the Evolve transformation process. A series of one-to-one sessions with an Evolve coach provides each leader with the necessary self-growth and discovery to transfer the experience to followers and release potential into performance.
Results: The top and bottom line deliverables are exponential:
- The creation of a non-dependant performance culture
- Assertive, flexible, inspired leaders able to develop strong relationships based on win-win outcomes
- Increased profits from increasingly creative, loyal and happy employees
- Improved succession planning – leaders creating leaders at all levels
- Dramatically improved retention and attraction of talent
- Thought leadership not process management
Leaders will have:
- Increase self-awareness
- Establish balance and diagnose leadership competency
- Deepen their ability to understand and influence others
- Complete thorough action plans based on learning
- Increase creative intelligence in themselves and others
- Align personal and professional purpose, vision and goals
- Improve management of emotions
- Increasingly respond not react
