Powerful head and heart connected leadership.
AJ - Alexandra Joy ?? GAICD
Empowering Leaders and their Teams to Thrive Not Just Survive | Using wisdom from Nature & The Boardroom in the Bush I Leadership & Steward Eldership Advocate
Are your head and your heart disconnected??
Often when I'm working with leaders they find that something's not quite gelling.?
They're a little bit in the dark, they find it difficult in meetings when things go a bit south, when there's some challenges to their power, or when they need to have a difficult conversation with someone.?
They feel this sense of disconnection because of long-held trauma, things from childhood or even challenges or issues that have happened in the workplace before that have rocked their boat.?
They've stored that, and as a coping mechanism they've disconnected their head from their heart.?
They're relying purely on their intellect and they're not able to go into any feelings in the workplace.?
Sure, there's a time and a place for feelings, there's a time and a place for emotion, but as leaders it's really important that we're connected to our whole.
That we come out into the light, and that we allow ourselves to go within and to feel what we’re feeling.?
Then we can see a way through, we can see a gap, an opportunity, a way to connect with people at the human level.
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As leaders, we're not just “business-doers”. We're also head-heart connected, whole human beings, and when we're completely connected as leaders, when we're able to feel what's going on, or even just acknowledge it: “When you do that, I felt like this, and why that's important is this. What I'd like to see happening differently is this.”
To be able to express it - without going right into the emotion - but to be able to express it and not disconnect the two, this really does help us be incredibly powerful leaders.
Is today a day where you start making that connection??
Do it in a safe way. Do it with your therapist if you need to. Do it with a family member, a trusted coach or mentor.
But do, do it.
It's worth becoming an integrated whole human being.?
That's how we truly become more conscious and become a leader worth following.