conscious leadership psc2
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2006 1
Conscious Leadership
Creating Workplaces That Work!
Anna Pollock
2006 2
Does this sound familiar?
Recruitment, retention and engagement are the key issues affecting government today
2006 3
Does this sound familiar?
Overall less than 25% of employees are fully engaged at work
2006 4
But Have You Heard This One?
What managers need now, above all else, is to slow down, step back and reflect thoughtfully.
Henry Mintzberg
2006 5
Isn’t This More Like It?
80% of managers get less than ½ hour of time to think and reflect on the job
2006 6
Again, have you heard this before?
Individuals join organizations and leave managersGallup
Which makes it all your fault!
2006 7
Ever felt like you were trapped?
In a box, perhaps?
2006 8
The Big Squeeze!
Shareholders
Executives
Supervisors
Frontline Staff
Analysts, Politicians Media
Customers
2006 9
How Do we Move Outside the Box?
2006 10
What Do Bosses Want?
In short: MORE!– Productivity – Profits, market share, share price, ROI– Creativity– Efficiency– Collaboration– Retention– Flexibility– Adaptability
2006 11
What Do Your Team Members Want?
• To be rewarded commensurate with effort • Recognition for my contribution, my talents• Relationships with co-workers• Meaning & fulfillment & a sense of purpose• To be told the truth, kept informed• To feel Involved• Respected• Trusted
2006 12
Some Observations
• “No one, apart from investment managers, goes to work early because he is eager to make shareholders wealthy.” Michael Hammer
• Working together can be a deep source of life meaning. Anything less is just a job.” Peter Senge
• Man’s search for meaning is his primary motivation in life.” Victor Frankl
2006 13
What Do Employees Want of their Leaders?
“Not financial acumen. Not vision. Not creativity. What employees want most from their business leaders are basic principles in practice such as honesty, integrity, ethics and caring”
Right Management Consultants, UK
2006 14
So What Else is Working?
• How Many of You Volunteer?
• Why?• How does it feel? • You are not alone!
45-56%of UK and US residents volunteerUS volunteers contribute $280 billion to the economy!
• Growth of Social Entrepreneurship
2006 15
• Re-organize• Tighten up processes and job
descriptions• Business process re-
engineering• Bonus and incentive schemes• Penalties and punishments
How do organizations fix the problem?
2006 16
Where & Why Are We Missing the Mark?
We’re Focusing on the BRAIN versus the HEART!
2006 17
Mind Your Language!
2006 18
From Engagement to Passion
2006 19
From Motivation to Inspiration
2006 20
From Motivation to Inspiration
2006 21
How did Gandhi inspire a nation?
2006 22
How did Rosa change a nation?
2006 23
Let’s Put the Human back into HR
We’re Human BEINGS not DOINGS
2006 24
Soft is the New Hard!
Everyone Wins!
2006 25
How do you “do” Conscious Leadership?
2006 26
1. Take Responsibility
2006 27
2. Pay Attention
• What kind of box are you in?
• How well do I know myself and others?
• What stories do I tell myself and others about me?
• Am I internally in alignment?
2006 28
How do I do “Self Reflection?”
• Move out of the head!• Awareness of body,
feelings, • Use mirrors – movies,
heroes, imagery, animals, archetypes
• Paint, draw, sing, journal • Story writing• Dream & Visualise
– Awake or asleep
2006 29
What Kind of Box are you in?
2006 30
Each Box an Organization, Country
2006 31
Conscious Leadership isn’t Easy!
There are three things extremely hard:
steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.Benjamin Franklin
2006 32
The Three Most Powerful Questions
• Who am I? IDENTITY
• Why am I here? PURPOSE
• What’s my contribution? ROLE
Works for Individuals, Companies, Nations
2006 33
Defining the Core
INDIVIDUAL ORGANIZATION
IDENTITY Character Culture & Brand
PURPOSE Vocation, Passion
Cause
ROLE Contribution, talents
USP, core competencies
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The “Box” of “who we are”
PARADIGM
PASSION & VALUES
PERSONALITY
PURPOSE
PRACTICED SKILLS
PAST EVENTS
But is that all? Is this a prison?
2006 35
Moving out the Box: Two Exits
Focus on service
Focus on personal growth, and development
2006 36
By Sharing a Common Purpose
• There’s one phrase that shows what it takes to unify a group and focus attention
• One phrase describes our common destiny and a cause that inspires
• One phrase that can be applied to what we want as individuals, as companies and as community
• One phrase that describe why we’re here
• Dixon’s $20,000 challenge
2006 37
BUILD A BETTER WORLD
2006 38
So conscious leaders are:
• Awake & Aware• Accountable• Attentive• Authentic• All aspects – hold holistic
perspectives• Alive• Accepting• Attractors• Altruistic• Able to ACT!
2006 39
So conscious leaders are:
• Alive• Attract• Able to ACT!