Join Kris and .Christina as they talk about how yoga can play a big role in changing the landscape of leadership
Strategic Leadership
Before COVID, strategic leadership was a lot of planning, a lot of digging in deep into performance indicators, and finding ways to solve all the world's problems. Now, we have all learned how to consecutively, in healthcare at least, learn how to build and fly the plane at the same time. So strategic leadership means being able to pivot on a dime, adjust your plan, and really rise to the occasion. Kris feels that the health care systems is been rocked in raw, challenging and difficult ways. But we've also seen incredible resiliency.
Stress, the Pandemic and Yoga
A lot of people are functioning from a state of fight or flight and they're in this chronic crisis overload. What I can do is bring people down to calming breath work. Meditation has an enormous impact on how we do work. If we are in a creative mindset, we're more open, and we're able to strategize a bit more creatively and focus on what's going to work for the patients
In health care, wellness has taken a front seat, especially given the stressful conditions people are under. At my workplace, we have many meditations every morning, it's voluntary but there are yoga classes available virtually throughout the day. Some of the challenges with yoga were financial or flexibility barriers. When we bring yoga into a home environment, people are a bit more inclined to try something new in the comfort space. There is research that says that about 5% of our population in Canada does yoga and I'm hoping we’ll see an increase.
We learn about how Kris began her Yoga practice and how she became a Yoga teacher in the midst of COVID. She had two traumatic losses in her life and felt that it was time for her to look beyond her negative self talk and share her gifts and talents. Yoga has been a place of solace for her and a time for her to develop her philanthropic journey.
We discuss the marathon of COVID and how we are going to keep up this momentum. Finding our internal resiliency that we can channel and bring forward can give us hope and allow us to create and for a lot of people it is giving back in different ways to our community. So I think we are seeing kindness on an epic level. There's a kindness revolution.
Toxic workplace cultures and leveraging yoga?
When people are engaged in high meaning work, where they are making a difference. They may have a degree of tolerance for behavior that otherwise may not make a lot of sense on the outside. There are a lot of factors that can create or cultivate a toxic workplace. Getting support from other co-workers or a third party is important. Learn to trust your gut instincts. You know what is right and wrong. There is always a solution. It is possible to create a culture where people do become more comfortable speaking up, but it's power in numbers.
Seeking leadership roles
When looking to become a leader it is important to decide how you want to lead, are you leading from a place of power-with your team or are you leading from a place of power-over. There are ways to cultivate a leadership style that is both fair and tough, that empowers your team to fully commit to their role. Yoga can play an important role in allowing a leader to lead creatively and from the heart.
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