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Soul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is leading with a coaching mindset, guest “C- Suite” Leader Ranjith NairWhat was the catalyst that made you want to be a better leader and lead you down the path of coaching?It started with the feedback one would receive on performance. The intent to improve oneself is always there. Coupled with that there were a couple of instances where talks on coaching and mentoring and how it positively impacts leadership crossed one's path. The intent to improve and the curiosity of how one could use coaching techniques, as a leader, set off this journey.The start of coaching was all about seeking to learn how...2022-04-2125 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is understanding the power of your self talk, our guest for podcast 100 is Antionette BiehlmeierThis is Soul Inspired Leadership's 100th podcast!What better way than to share it with the person who got me started with episode #1....Antoinette.Which brings us to what we both love talking about… the subject of self-talk.Many aren't quite aware of the impact our self-talk has on our actions and reactions. Those actions and reactions then create the reality one lives in. That affects the leadership one displays. Whilst much has been written about how adversity brings out true leaders, this comes back to the issue of self-talk.Overcoming ob...2022-03-3123 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is leading beyond ego, guest Thor OlafssonLeadership is all about going beyond ego and leading from within. It's about leading from the inner self. When you are connected with your inner self and are connected to that, you lead differently. Healthy self-esteem helps in empathetic leadership. The outer ego is the one that creates and drives self-comparisons. Comparing and contrasting with everyone around you.In leadership what one sees is too much of ego driven behaviour. For example, one identifies a threat and reacts with a defensive strategy. That defensive strategy will differ from one leader to the other. The...2022-03-1122 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is understanding that to lead is to empower, guest Robertson Hunter StewartEmpowering employees everyone talks about it. Everyone says to do it. Yet it's a challenge.Autonomy to employees to do their day-to-day role is where it all starts. Specially those who are in customer facing roles. Giving them the autonomy to make decisions as they are interacting with the customers, instead of having to check-in with a superior at every stage, helps immensely.This simple autonomy is something that is, often, either not explained to employees or not given. As a result the front facing employees often find themselves in situation where they feel stuck.2022-03-0424 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is connecting with stories, guest, avid storyteller Graham BrownGood leadership is how you connect with people and one of the best ways to connect with people is through storytelling.Graham Brown that's does brilliantly. A great communicator. He brings forth how storytelling aids leadership.In business storytelling is not about fairy tales. It's about creating a connection using empathy. There's an art and science to storytelling.One can use one word to communicate change or give a picture of what's happening. In that word itself lies the story as we all have various analogies in our memory that's triggered through reading...2022-03-0132 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipThe success of an M&A is in the leadership not the process, guest Rachel Treece, CEO fts globalIn M&A people usually look at the data when looking to merge a couple of companies. What is often overlooked are the people. Specially about the cultural fit of two groups of people. It comes down to creating a performance focused environment that fits. During an M&A the focus is mostly on all the technical or the structural aspects of the M&A and the people are the last bit that one looks at. Yet people are the most critical part. There's one fundamental fact that we need to keep in mind. As hu...2022-02-0623 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is connecting the value proposition to employees purpose, guest Anna MamalakiOrganisations have changed. It's not been a planned change management project, but change has occurred as people have changed. That change is not one directional. Now it's up to leadership to harness that change and steer it in a way that's best for the organisation.Going into this, what's key to understand is, that given people have changed, the value propositions of organizations need to change. That impacts the strategy of a company. Which should change or be changing.The changing value proposition is enabled by three things:1. People2. Processes2022-01-2726 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood #leadership is not pushing or pulling, its oiling the squeaky wheel, guest Dr Adam HarrisonThere's a belief amongst good leaders that they can get better. Thinking that you can get better is the first step in being a better leader. In this coaching helps you become and remain a great leader.The pandemic has impacted leadership requirements hugely. The state of flux creates makes it necessary for a leader have one's wits together and be agile simply because that state of flux is continuously changing.The health care industry leaders are having this pressure first and having to adapt and evolve. Those who are unable to keep a...2022-01-2033 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipIn both leadership and marketing, how you make people feel is what makes the difference between people feeling connected or indifferent.Through leadership and marketing, in business, bringing in the human aspect is what drives growth in today.If you remove people from business, there is no business. Going back into history to the times when barter trade was practiced. Business was still between people. Each offering something of perceived value to the other. It's no different today. Business is all about people. It's still about the same perceived value. It's for people, done by people.Over time we've given people labels. Employees, customers, vendors, partners.Step back and look at the 'why' of th...2021-11-1020 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood Leadership is knowing that pressure is not an excuse for bad behaviour, guest Dr Adam HarrisonToxic environments are taxing. Specially so in the medical profession.Toxicity in the healthcare workplace, unfortunately, occurs far too much. Looking back during my trainee days, one experienced it in the surgical department, then in family medicine. Today as one looks back the realization occurred that this toxicity is a consequence of doctors not being trained in leadership in medical school. Positions of responsibility are thrust upon doctors and it comes down to managing people with the inherent set of inter-personal skills that one has.Such a scenario is quite common across workplaces. What most...2021-10-1523 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood Leadership is learning from your crucible moments guest, Warwick FairfaxIt's a defining point in one's life. It's a painful moment that leaves an everlasting impression of the experience felt. It changes who you are as a person after the event.Such an experience brings up questions about purpose. Understanding the event is a defining moment is where one starts with regards to purpose. The question is does that experience define who you are as a person?It gives you two choices. One to become the victim and lose your path. The other is to take the lesson and decide to that learning i...2021-10-0725 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership when under pressure is staying focussed on the process to the outcome, guest Inderjit SinghLeaders leading under pressure is a much discussed topic currently. With the world under pressure leading through to getting back to some form of construct for business.What's the key when, as a leader, you're leading and are under pressure?Inspite of the best plans, things do go wrong. They do so because technology can play up, key people may have personal emergencies and not be able to be at work. Such unexpected gaps occur. What helps is the training and the experience one has in managing the pressure.In addition to the...2021-10-0117 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is knowing that trust is actually an emotion, guest Philipp KristianWhat does trust mean in business?At a foundational emotive level humans react in the same way to the world. So, trust is actually an emotion. Lot of people think of it as a moral or ethics as it gets rationalised in that way. However, as a deciding factor it is an emotion.What this means is that trust is shaping our lives just as other emotions are also shaping our lives. The hint here is that emotions are very important in our social lives and so is trust because it is allowing us to...2021-09-2422 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is creating an organisational strategy that has a community value purpose, guest Alex BrueckmannWhat is strategy and does it differ with the size and type of organization?Speaking of strategy, the size and type of an organization does not impact on the strategy it has. The difference is how long it takes to design and implement the strategy. Strategy is the way to get to the vision. It's the priorities and focus areas that an organization manages on a daily basis in order to reach to its vision. A commonality of strategy, across all types of organizations, for its leadership is the daily struggle of balancing the long-term g...2021-08-2625 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is being aligned in mind, body and spirit, special guest Lesz SikorskiThere's a growing body of knowledge that recognises the interconnectivity of the mind and body. Many people spend a lot of time in their own heads thinking rationally, logically in order to deliver results and be happy. What one misses out in this thinking is the whole other part they can utilise. Simply because they aren't conscious about it. It holds one back. It's important for leaders to have their mind, body and spirit aligned so that one can act in the best interest of self.It's about understanding what is driving one's feelings and emotions. As...2021-08-1828 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood Leadership is being aware of the effects of your posture, special guest Elizabeth LeeA key issue amongst corporate professionals is that of self-leadership. Often led by ego they swing erratically and miss out on leading themselves properly. If one is unable to lead self then, as a leader, how can one lead others?To lead oneself there has to be clarity in terms of what one wants. It starts with who are you and what kind of leader do you want to be and what kind of life do you want to lead. It's absolutely necessary to have a strong vision for oneself. Without purpose it's hard to stay motivated a...2021-08-1223 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is knowing that accountability is not a checklist, it’s a relationship, guest Chris LewisPeople hold people accountable. Yet it's more of a checklist and not quality accountability.What does that mean?People try to show how effective a leader they are by being hard on the people they lead. Not realising they are never going to meet the goals of the strategic plan if people aren't buying in. People don't buy-in when they don't feel supported, understood, and appreciated. Certainly, holding people accountable is good but not in a way that makes people want to quit their jobs. Most people at their jobs know what they a...2021-08-0522 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood Leadership starts with the person you see in the mirror, special guest Simon TaufelWhat's the correlation between high-performance sport and leadership in an organization?It's about being authentic and being yourself. Which translates as being honest and true with yourself. Related to that is the area of personal discipline around hard work, passion, drive and application. They all form the DNA. These can't be taught. However they can be improved upon. People can achieve goals provided they are honest in putting in the hard work to be the best version of themselves and not try be someone else.In corporate this comes through a lot as comparisons. All...2021-07-2820 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipLeading with your authentic self fuels a purpose to be passionate about, special guests Beth Frates and Gary HenselIt starts with recognizing that wellness is a journey in self-leadership. Asking oneself the question of how we are going to live our life. Understanding and appreciating our own strengths and weaknesses. Once one understands this, then comes the question, do we understand how we live a healthy life. It starts with having an open mindset and being a life-long learner.This is also an important part of being a leader of people.As a leader it's important to accept vulnerability. It's okay to not have all the answers and none of us do. The...2021-07-1233 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is knowing the value that diversity brings… special guest Lorraine LeeWhen we focus on diversity often, we end up highlighting what's different between us more than celebrating the diverse perspectives that come through that diversity.Each one of us approaches diversity through our own cultural lens and experience. A way that's helped is through the cultural acclimatization sessions. These interactive sessions help people to share about their cultural experiences and learnings and in turn become helpful knowledge for people running cross-functional diverse teams.Learning about the differences is helpful in many ways. Such as punctuality. Keeping time on the dot is valued greatly by some. W...2021-07-0528 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is knowing that facilitating alignment is not an annual event but a daily activity… special guest Lesz SikorskiAlignment is key. Some companies do it very well. Some look at alignment at the start of a change and then assume that's done and in place. Yet from experience we know the latter doesn't work in practice.Many organizations approach alignment as telling their people about what they should be thinking. The common practice is getting the people to think the same way with regards to the mission and task at hand. The real challenge is about the alignment of action. If you can agree on where you're going, what does success look like and understand...2021-06-0425 min
Soul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is knowing that facilitating alignment is not an annual event bit a daily activity… special guest Lesz SikorskiAlignment is key. Some companies do it very well. Some look at alignment at the start of a change and then assume that's done and in place. Yet from experience we know the latter doesn't work in practice.
Many organizations approach alignment as telling their people about what they should be thinking. The common practice is getting the people to think the same way with regards to the mission and task at hand. The real challenge is about the alignment of action. If you can agree on where you're going, what does success look like and understand that, you can...2021-06-0325 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipLeadership Transparency a key for executive loneliness, special guest Nick JonssonThe motivation for the book was the learning that senior business leaders felt quite lonely in the way they had to make decisions.The background research leading upto the book, showed that upto 30% of senior business leaders felt they were depressed. Following this up with the in-person interviews brought out specific stories that's captured in the book. A key finding was that senior leaders are often working across cultures and laws over various countries which impacts decision making and makes it complex. Whilst some leaders might be comfortable in discussing and arriving at a collaborative decision, the...2021-04-3019 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is understanding the power of psychological reciprocity, special guest Gary HenselLessons from the spiritual warrior-- The new book by Gary HanselEverybody is a leader. Today leadership has come about to be more about mindset and attitude. Way back the classic older leadership style was about 'we don't trust you'!Leadership creates the environment that brings about learning. The more the people learn they grow. This is an aspect that shows trust. Trust that's reciprocal. It creates an energy that drives everything. This energy is actually the thoughts of the people. How optimistic are they, how positive are they, how do they feel t...2021-04-2323 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood Leadership: A healthy body fuels your creativity, special guest Beth Frates MDGood leadership is about self-leadership. One of the elements of self-leadership is maintaining a proper lifestyle and maintain one's health. How did you get started into lifestyle medicine?Back in the day when I was mentally preparing to be the 3rd generation in the family business, I learnt that my father was harbouring a few diseases inside him! These are the silent diseases like high blood pressure. You don't realise they are there. This affected me and resulted in me making a complete change where my career was concerned. It brought home the purpose of w...2021-04-1627 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipEmpathetic listening, the essence of good leadership communicationThe first thing in being a good communicator is to be able to listen. Truly listen, and not just listen physically, but with your whole body.In leadership listening with empathy is how you develop trust. When one notices a drop in the listening, or the leader's attention being occupied with something else, seeds of mistrust start creeping in subconsciously. The fear of being judged the barrier that blocks active communication. When one is afraid of being judged, one doesn't want to share anything, and it leads to no communication. Research has shown that when l...2021-03-3122 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipThe Titanic and Leadership, special guest Vidusha NathavitharanaWhen something bad happens we're always asking why it happened! Yet when something good occurs we spend truly little time exploring how and why it happened.When the Titanic sank there was the usual why and how. It came down to three key findings:1. Everyone was convinced this was the best ship ever built that there weren’t enough contingencies. It was one of the reasons as to why there weren't enough lifeboats.2. The command structure-- Neither the captain nor the next in command was out there looking out for potential risks....2021-03-1822 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipLeadership is building a team ecosystem that's sustainable... special guest Vidusha NathavitharanaThe analogy here is from my son's aquarium. Whenever you have a fish tank at home, you'll notice that in the first month it looks beautiful and it starts looking really horrible after that. Every single month the tank has to be cleaned. As my son outgrew the tank in the house, he started using small aluminium basins to put the fish in and put them outside. The learning was that these little basins did not need that extensive cleaning that the tank required. When we extend this to the wilderness and the rivers, we see that there is...2021-03-0519 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leaders discover themselves first, special guest Gerdi VerwoertGerdi Verwoert is a self-leadership coach of busy managers and executives. She has a deeply felt connection with Nature, especially mountains.She helps people step into their self-leadership by helping them re-connect with themselves. Convinced that to be truly connected to oneself, you also have to be connected with Nature, Nature and mountains are an integral part of the work Gerdi does - both online and in the Great Outdoors.On this episode of Soul-Inspired-Leadership we dive into the importance of being connected with Nature. How we can benefit from this connection and why it i...2021-02-1924 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipQuality relationships underpins team effectiveness… special guest Jason TreuThe one thing that stands out between a high performing team and a non high performing team is relationships the team members have with each other and the trust they have. This dictates the performance and success of the team. There has to be strategy, tactics and tools used by the leader to ensure team performance. It's necessary to do this intentionally so as to ensure performance. Teamwork has to be a strategic priority.When a leader senses that a team member or two isn't really connected with the others what are some of the things they...2021-02-0526 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood Leadership is knowing that a successful business in more than just money… special guest Chris AtkinsonMoral leadership is an emerging conversation in leadership. It ties up with conscious leadership. Which is around how self-aware are leaders? In other words, to what extent do leaders consider their motivations, their interests, their serving, their own biases, their own strengths and weaknesses and act in a more conscious way. The morality part comes from knowing that organizations prioritize the commercial aspect and yet leaders are expected to be guardians of good, ethical and sustainable decisions. Is it possible to balance these two forces?On one hand, as a leader, there's a responsibility to others by...2021-01-1527 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood Leadership about the quality of the doing… special guest Jennifer ChapmanThere often are, what we call magic moments, which in hindsight when we see them we realise they ended up derailing us.Can you share a bit on this?The main one is this whole perception of getting stuff done. Ticking off the tasks becomes a priority instead of focusing on the soft skills like interpersonal and collaboration. This actually makes one be off balance. It not only impacts the leader but everybody around them. One has to be intentional in taking time to look at the interpersonal relationship and the communication within that. Specially in...2021-01-0527 min
Soul-Inspired-LeadershipGood Leadership is connecting positively with peopleAt Soul Inspired Leadership we speak with leaders who lead from within and let the environment reflect them rather than the leader reflecting the environment.On that note how have you taken the current environment and challenges as a leader?Having to work from home was a massive transition. Most of us have not worked from home before. It started with bringing the team together when we weren't physically together. Fortunately, everyone responded to the change quite well. As a leader I continued leading the way I lead in a different format. Focused o...2020-12-1119 minSoul-Inspired-Leadership“Turning Brilliant Jerks Into Authentic Leaders” special guest Katrina BurrusWhat do you mean when you talk about brilliant jerks?A billion jerk is somebody that is a high achiever. Usually very bright because they're brilliant in their area of expertise. They give big results for companies because they're very driven, but it causes a lot of turnover and stress in the company. It’s because usually they are interpersonally blind.When you get brilliant people sometimes, they just focus on the brilliance and that often tends to feed the ego. Making the behaviour worse. The question is do we do we run with the in...2020-11-2428 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipManager Leader with MusicThis series is where I discuss various aspects of leadership.All leaders are managers. Yet not all managers are leaders. Managers who aren't leaders manage processes.In essence you gather that information from subject matter experts, collate it and put that together. The next step for a manager is then to implement. This is where the issue of leadership starts. The desire for those people to produce what they need to produce in order for you to actually put it together as a strategy or plan won't be as strong because you're not influencing them...2020-10-2005 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipCrucible leadership, its about the ‘who’ not the ‘what’… special guest Warwick FairfaxWarwick Fairfax is the founder of Crucible leadership. The firm guides leaders and companies in turning business and personal failures into the fuel for igniting a life of significance.Fairfax was only 26 and a fifth-generation heir to the media empire bearing his family name. He led and lost a multibillion-dollar public takeover bid resulting in company founded, by his great-great-grandfather, slipping away from family control after a hundred fifty years. This incident led him to examine not only his shortcomings and losses but also his life principles.How did you find yourself at that that m...2020-10-0824 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipCrucible leadership, its about the ‘who’ not the ‘what’, Part Two… special guest Warwick FairfaxIn part 2 of the podcast we move on to the topic of being authentic and true to self.How do you see this with people who are struggling and stuck in a bit of a bind as to where they are and starting to realize where they need to be or want to be?Very often in the corporate world we have an idea that as a CEO or a senior leader you've got to be a certain way. Take charge, no-nonsense, confident, know everything, appropriately dressed, not hair out of place with a plastic...2020-10-0824 min
Soul-Inspired-LeadershipJodi and Ross with MusicJodi Hume has made a name for herself facilitating complex leadership conversations with for hundreds of growing entrepreneurs and companies throughout the US Europe and Australia working with countless organizations including Exelon, John Hopkins, and Teach for America. Judy works one-to-one with a small number of clients and is always looking for ways to make better leaders and become more involved.Jodi also looks for ways to make more space for leadership conversations in the community. Towards that, she facilitates round table conversations for entrepreneurs and each week co-hosts a podcast called ‘Here’s My Story’—a podcast...2020-09-2428 min
Soul-Inspired-LeadershipGood Leadership is about building self first, special guest Jennifer BuckleyWe're speaking with Jennifer Bulkley who owns Jen X Enterprises and Breaking The Ice Consulting. She is an audio impactor and holistic consultant. She ditched a structured self-will corporate company for her new mission in life pursuing a life of freedom and self-authorization in order to help others Break Free of their own Illusions and lead a truly authentic life. Jennifer's has a lot of experience in the entrepreneurial space in building and scaling multiple businesses from scratch and she's an expert in sales. She loves leadership and having a culture friendly company where everyone enjoys themselves. She's a dedi...2020-09-1023 min
Soul-Inspired-LeadershipLeadership and the brand impact, special guest Susan MeierBranding requires leadership. One can start or have a company with great products or services and doing well in the market. But a brand can be nebulous or inconsistent and it really requires a top-down perspective to define what is it that ties all the products, the people behind it together and what the brand stands for. So that the people on the other end, who are receiving the messaging and using the products or services have a clear understanding of what and who the brand is.A brand is a reflection of its people and the p...2020-08-2719 min
Soul-Inspired-Leadershipleadership is being soul inspired, special guest Spencer SnakardWe are soulful beings having the human experience. Sometimes there tends to be a conflict between the head and the heart. Which, if one were to go in a bit deeper, is about who we are as souls, housed in our human bodies that are not everlasting, In our humanness we have the need to survive, and protect ourselves and the experience of fear. For many of us in the leadership space we don't have the physical threats anymore. Leaving aside this pandemic which has brought about a significant physical threat. So, what happens is that our identities tend...2020-08-1822 min
Soul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership -a military perspective, special guest Roderic YappThere's this perspective or view in modern leadership that the old style of leadership is all about command and control and that the modern style of leadership is all about empowerment. This concept of empowerment is something that the military has been practicing for quite some time. The decision-making power has to be delegated as depending on the situation, the person on-the-ground is best equipped to make the decision. Developing this ability, in the military, is through scenario training.The other point is that leadership is shown through your behaviour. It's dependent on the way you lead...2020-08-1135 min
Soul-Inspired-LeadershipThe Humanness of Leadership, special guest Izabella NiewiadomskaThe quality of our relationships is based on the quality of our communication. Regardless of who we are and what skills and qualifications we have and whether we are a leader or being led by one, we are all human beings. To be a good leader we need to understand the psyche, the nature of the basic human being's need of another human being. When a leader looks at a team member it's actually looking at another human being and not judging people by their behaviour but understanding where that behaviour comes from. In the words of Tony Robbins t...2020-08-0425 min
Soul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is feeling it not thinking itWhat does feeling leadership really mean?In any situation what kicks in first is our feelings. We feel our way through life. In feeling leadership this is one of the cores in having a can-do attitude. It's the one that kicks in first. Our brain manages those feelings. Even in extreme feelings like excitement it creates an opportunity to think.Our brain is the hardware, and our mindset is the software. We've created our mindsets, over time, through all of our experiences, our beliefs which form our attitude and our attitude and action is our...2020-07-2029 min
Soul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership respecting the Humanness of yourself and others, guest Ashu KhannaDiscovering oneself is a journey. A journey that involves understanding one's sensitivity and emotions. These two are not the easiest to live with and they also are the reasons for much of our behaviour. This brings about hurt that we tend to keep within ourselves without realising it. Ourself sensitivity and emotions makes us want others to understand us in our way and at the same time makes us have the expectation of being understood as we are. Often this leads to chaos and not only don't we understand others; others are unable to understand or fathom us. ...2020-06-2621 min
Soul-Inspired-LeadershipWith leadership, some things change and some things don't... guest Dr Aquil BusraiWhen the context is changing the way leaders behave and execute changes. The basic foundation of leadership-- concern for people, empathy, connectivity, communication-- these are static.These don't really change. Depending on the scenario respective leadership qualities are highlighted. Today what comes to the forefront, based on interactions and observations, is empowerment. This will come into play in leadership hugely.Teams will be working in small numbers and independently. In such a scenario leaders will not lead, they will only become facilitators and research providers. This is not a type of role that many leaders w...2020-06-1826 min
Soul-Inspired-LeadershipWhat underpins quality leadership doesn't change, just the context. Special guest Gary HenselBeing a big believer of history I look at the famous leaders of all walks of life and taking the leanings from them. What they did right; what mistakes they made. This led to identifying an important concept of leadership- passion.Starting with passion there are three key components in leadership.A leader has to have passion for whatever their endeavours are. Whatever they are trying to accomplish they have to passionate about it. The second item that's important in leadership is respect. One learns more from a bad boss simply because we l...2020-06-1020 min
Soul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership showing gratitude, being brave. Guests Kimberly Davis, Janice KobelskyOver the past two months there's a realization that less is more. As we have slowed down one seems to have become more observant of the things present. Realizing that one is bringing more mindfulness to the present than before.Practicing gratitude and proactively choosing joy and selecting to be thankful even for things that haven't happened yet. A couple of things happen in doing this. One is that there's an immediate feeling of good and the second is that it gets attraction in the day going for the things that one is grateful for though they...2020-05-2525 min
Soul-Inspired-LeadershipEffective leadership is unleashing employee power… special guest Robertson Hunter StewartEmployee Power UnleashedThe book was born out of the need to prove a point about employees being the priority for a business.If you get the employee bit right the rest happens.In the hospitality business the employees are the front-liners facing, speaking, and managing the guests. They need to be empowered, have the right training, enough autonomy so that they can do their jobs. Couple with this there has to be trust in that fact that the employees can do their jobs well. Without that there won’t be good performances co...2020-05-1521 min
Soul-Inspired-LeadershipAuthentic leadership is like being naked at work.. special guest Danessa Knaupp.Courage isn't something we talk about enough in leadership. We talk about it in big sweeping movements. The great leaders are brave in small ways everyday and that courage becomes really important. Everyone who has thought something in their head but not said it in a meeting or taken a deep breath and said it knows what that feels like. It's a cross between listening to your inner self or you listen to all the noise and chatter around you and try to fill others’ expectations. Being your true self is the key. That's the real authenticity.So...2020-05-0523 min
Soul-Inspired-LeadershipLeadership, connecting people’s purpose to the vision, guest Olga PiehlerFor Olga in mid-career came this realisation of an acute need to find and identify self-purpose. It ultimately led to her new company name having ‘my why’. In the discovery process the research involved everything to do with customer experience and loyalty as these were areas connected to my work roles. The learning from it is summed up in one word-- consistency. Consistency in the delivery of the experience by employees. In looking at solving how to deliver the customer experience consistently it went back to culture. At the end of the day culture is the everyday behav...2020-04-0721 min
Soul-Inspired-LeadershipIn leadership sometimes the old is the newAt the heart of being a great leader is having the behaviour that gets the outcome. The most important quality of leadership is that of being effective and this precedes anything else. Once you are outcome focused as a leader you do what is required to create that outcome.The whole point of being a leader is to get results.The thing about results is this-- when you look at human behaviour, a behaviour always creates a result. We always get a result. They may not be the best or the intended result....2020-03-3020 min
Soul-Inspired-LeadershipGood Leadership is being Curling SweeperWhat does servant leadership mean?There is a lot of talk on this. Servant leadership is where a leader is there to look after and make the way or clear the way for the employees. It's all about providing vision so that the team heads towards a target. As a leader if you do whatever it takes to keep people on track to reach that target. That's servant leadership.As a leader you're there to serve them. Not the other way around. The employees or the team are there to reach a goal o...2020-03-1805 min
Soul-Inspired-LeadershipLeadership Unplugged...Authenticity..It’s all about feeling it not thinking it.Authenticity is spot on.There's a lot of talk about authenticity. Especially in leadership.There are scenarios where a leader behaves badly and puts it down to his or her true self.There's a difference between being authentic and being one's true self. Then one says I need to be myself because I've heard about authenticity and read about it and as a leader, I need to be just who I am, that’s thinking from the head.Coaching helps one understand that authenticity is a continuous connectivity between the...2020-02-0305 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipCreating Change, its all about where you’re heading… podcast guest change expert Rita Burgett-MartellWhen you are driving change in an organization you are affecting the future of lots of people because when change happens it changes the way people interact, who they interact with and whenever a change happens it pushes one out of the comfort zone.When change is announced individuals become nervous about their future. Being set or in a comfort zone one forgets that one has the ability to learn. We keep doing our work and it accounts for what we do and how we think.In today's world change is happening so frequently. It’s...2019-10-0718 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood self leadership is about taking a pause …part 2Effect of Pause on LeadershipIn leadership having the time to reflect and feel the vision enables one to create. Those in leadership roles do reflect. However, that reflection is more of a cognitive one or reflecting in one’s brain and not from the heart. What it does is that the mind fills up the gaps through the data it has.To get one to move from the head to the heart can be difficult. It is so due to two unknown obstacles. One is a massive mental block and the other is one is...2019-08-2913 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is about taking a pause… part 1What does pause mean in one's work life and personal life?The purpose of taking a break is to have a break from the daily hustle and grind.When we do plan on taking a break, we often end up making a list of things to do to fill time. It takes time to switch off the internal habit of filling up time. Once one reaches that point where one can simply be present and enjoy the surroundings and the present moment it is very helpful.Creating moments of pause, within our daily...2019-08-2013 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipEmployee engagement, a test of leadership, special guest Anna MamalakiLeadership impacts employee engagement in the evolving workplace of today.In spite of this being a hot topic, the issue is a common one across countries. The commonality is that the figures are pretty poor all across the globe.Employee engagement is a direct result of the quality of leadership. Given the way the employee engagement figures are, that only means the quality of leadership is not great. Today's society demands a much more different leadership approach. Given that technology is transforming how we deal with every moment.Employee engagement is much more...2019-07-2918 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipHow leaders influence the brand… featuring Joy AbdullahThe behaviour a brand displays is a reflection of the leadership behind that brand. It manifests through how employees are engaged in the brand and how a brand is able to add value to the customer.The route to creating a great company brand is through its employees. How important is leadership in achieving this?The short answer is that leadership is very important.Historically, in Asia especially, we've approached brand from the perspective of it being a label, a design, a logo, a product or a service. There's much more to a...2019-06-1722 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipSelf leadership, “If you have a pulse, you have a purpose” guest Sabrina NelsonIt all starts with oneself.To be a good leader one has to be a good leader of one's own self.Encouraging others to be better self-leaders involves an understanding of what are one's gifts and talents and leaning into using those. Often it takes another to spot the talent and bring it to light thereby helping the person to be seen, heard and understood. Most important is understanding the other person, as that's what most people want. In doing this sometimes one has to help people lean into their discomfort in order to get...2019-05-1619 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipIn leadership, the inner juice counts… guest Lady Anita Duckworth-BradshawTo be a good leader one must understand oneself first. It’s all about self-leadership.Self-leadership and purpose are interwoven. Self-leadership is about leading from within. As a leader if one is not leading oneself then one has nothing to offer to others. That's where authenticity plays a vital role. Knowing oneself is like a compass and it gives one the strength or courage to be, what is known as, a brave leader.Belief and purpose help you overcome roadblocks or obstacles at work and in life. As a leader its part of the role to...2019-04-0915 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipThe Rat Race of Self improvementThe Rat Race Self-ImprovementThere’re so many self-improvement classes and offers. It makes one wonder if we are not good enough the way we are.People often go to self-improvement programmes not because of wanting to know what's inside them but because of what's around them.For example, if the intent of going to the gym is all about being muscled rather than being a flabby overweight individual then, perhaps, that intent is not right. It may work for some and it may not. Many don't get to that end goal, of bei...2019-03-2113 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipSelf leadership leads to authenticity.. an interview with Sarah Keen PostSarah Keen Post shares her journey and learning into self-leadership in this podcast.In 2006 Sarah was over 200lbs, her quality of life was not what she really wanted and more importantly she realised she wasn't being the mom she wanted to be. In a reflective moment she told herself--"this is not acceptable'! That's where she started out leading herself without even realising that she was doing it.Any good leader has the discipline of self-leadership. It comes back to having a relationship with yourself, internally not externally. It's always challenging to be self-disciplined as there are...2019-03-0622 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipLeadership is being conscious of the impact you have outside yourselfToday's podcast again features Kimberly Davis author of the book of Brave Leadership and well-known leadership development Blog writer Janice Kobelsky.Kimberly can be found at https://onstageleadership.com/blog/Janice can be found at https://janicekobelsky.mykajabi.com/blogBurnout makes us experience heightened emotions of stress, feeling overwhelmed, vulnerable, fearful of change, and anxiety.Here are some strategies to manage these:Identify your super-objective:This really is purpose-in-action. Purpose often can feel very overwhelming! Yet it doesn't have to be. All it takes is to be aski...2019-01-1017 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipUnderstanding Vital exhaustion, a key to good leadershipToday's podcast again features Kimberly Davis author of the book of Brave Leadership and well-known leadership development Blog writer Janice Kobelsky.Kimberly can be found at https://onstageleadership.com/blog/Janice can be found at https://janicekobelsky.mykajabi.com/blog Self-care starts with setting good boundaries for oneself in order to refuel and regenerate.Personality types do play a role here in how you take care of your energy. Introverts usually can and do regenerate by themselves easily. Yet when in a group it often takes a toll.On...2018-12-1419 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipA good leader is being flexible in seeking to understandFor the past 6 months, our podcasts have been focused on sharing with you how to be authentic and true to yourself.And the question being asked is this—in a business scenario, where collaborations are necessary, how do you collaborate and yet stay true to yourself?This is, actually, a leadership skill.It's how you take the people's inner self and connect it to the vision.In life, it’s no different. It's how you connect with all the people around you, with yourself, to be yourself.Whilst it’s easy...2018-11-2611 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is leaving a legacy to be proud of Leadership and legacy often are mentioned in the same breath.Yet what is a legacy and how does one go about creating a legacy consciously?Ross and Antoinette give us a perspective on this.Legacy is a big word.It’s not just about the workplace leadership role and work but about one's life.Knowing one’s life purpose has a direct connection with the legacy that you create. It also connects directly to how your leadership behaviour is.As a leader or one who is in...2018-11-0212 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is seeing the big pictureEyes On The Big Picture. Not The Weeds.Leadership requires us to have one eye peeled on the big picture and the other on our team.Yet there are times when we do end up getting caught in the weeds.Given the hustle of life, it’s often hard to be able to pull back a bit and run a quick check on what we are doing. We often magnify the experience of the present moment much more in terms of importance than is necessary.It's always wise to step back a...2018-10-1908 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipManaging change is answering the WIIFMChange is really about the notion or idea of impermanence of things—Buddha.Change invites reflection to review where we are and who we are. It invites us to drop deeper and see our shadow selves and what we are not comfortable with changing.As individuals we are resistant to change. It helps to know or find out what's really underneath that resistance, as in where the resistance is coming from.For leaders, it about the 'comfort zone' and change when they are looking at change management processes or initiatives. People like their co...2018-10-0213 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is being balanced with your empathyIn today's podcast, we continue to explore two other complementary pairs of behaviour: Helpfulness vs. Assertiveness and Empathy vs. Rule Enforcement. Generally, in assessments, particularly in the Harrison psychometric test, which Ross uses as a base for his coaching, the behavioural patterns in stress situations and the resulting volatilities are very apparent in the results.Once an overly empathetic person realizes their softness is taken for granted by their staff, they tend to feel frustrated and taken advantage off. In a stress situation, this then may cause a shift in the opposite behavioural sp...2018-09-1912 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipLeadership and the inner and outer egoThe inner ego is important.The outer ego causes issues.Arrogance is visible and perceived. This is outer ego showing itself.In a corporate setting, people with strong inner strength and belief in themselves, can collaborate well, but often say less in meetings. This quietness usually comes across as lack of confidence. It becomes a matter of how you express yourself and stay true to yourself and not, in your own mind, appear arrogant.Speaking from a coaching perspective there have been situations where it has been necessary to bring the...2018-09-0413 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipIn good leadership, its the inner ego that’s importantEgo is a positive thing for people and yet it can be a negative too.Too much of ego is arrogance and not enough ego means you are laid back.Let's look at defining ego.Inner ego is the inner belief or inner strength that is purpose-based and is looking at the self. Outer ego is actually arrogance where one is driving oneself to appear to be better than others in front of everyone else. It's to the world at large and not for any other benefit.Another way to view ego...2018-08-2413 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipIn good leadership, its the inner ego that’s importantEgo is a positive thing for people and yet it can be a negative too.Too much of ego is arrogance and not enough ego means you are laid back.Let's look at defining ego.Inner ego is the inner belief or inner strength that is purpose-based and is looking at the self. Outer ego is actually arrogance where one is driving oneself to appear to be better than others in front of everyone else. It's to the world at large and not for any other benefit.Another way to view ego...2018-08-2413 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipEffective leadership is the power to be a genuine influencer… an interview with Bob BurgThe go-giver influencer tackles what you want by focusing on the other person's interest.It's not self-sacrificial but rather in such a way that all parties benefit greatly. Such influence creates both medium and long-term success and is like servant leadership. What is influence really?Influence can be defined on a couple of levels.Firstly, at a basic level influence is the ability to move a person or persons to a desired action usually within the context of a specific goal.Secondly, that is its definition but t...2018-07-2725 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipIn Leadership, less is moreAuthenticity and being an authentic leader are expressions that leaders oft come across.What really does being an authentic leader mean?In this podcast we have an example that provides a scientific perspective to the need to be true to yourself.There is a reason behind that.It all started in a discussion about Einstein’s kinetic energy formula ofmass X velocity²/ 2. For this equation let us take the individual as a specific energetic mass that includes all believes, shadows and perceptions that one carries around and which infl...2018-07-0911 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood Leadership is Leading from withinImagine that you’re walking down the road, and 200 meters in front, you see someone who you don’t really want to meet. It could be someone you had a bad disagreement with or simply can’t relate to. So, as you are on your walk you spot this person.What are the physical changes you notice immediately?You feel your shoulders going forward, like drooping down, and you have a sinking feeling in your stomach. What is happening is that your body is reacting immediately to your thoughts and emotions in your mind.Imag...2018-06-2612 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood leadership is Servant leadershipIn our previous podcast on perception, we had highlighted how bias plays a role in shaping our perception and how we can avoid it. We continue that conversation into looking at Servant Leadership in today’s podcast.Good leaders are leaders who have a very broad view of the world and can clearly see the big picture.In leadership circles, there is a lot of talk about servant leadership. Servant leadership is a leadership approach where a leader has a facilitating and serving people mindset. It’s an approach where the leader sees his or her...2018-06-0110 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipLeadership is about assessing people not judging themBias is everywhere. In daily life and in the workplace.Instead of judging people, from a preconceived set of ideas or perception, one should assess people with the view of learning something that one is not aware of.Leaders assess their employees. Such assessment can have filters of being biased which is a result of perceptions.Perceptions are built very much based upon the experiences we have had in life. Our upbringing, our programming, our culture in which we have been brought up or we live in and our values all feed into...2018-05-1714 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipLeadership its all about the “IT” In today’s life, we are continuously bombarded with information. Our brain not only has to take in the data but also sort it so that it makes sense to us. Add to this the monkey mind, and we are heading towards stress, brain fog, indecision, and energy depletion.Therefore, it is crucial to develop the capacity to allow the brain to relax, not to fire so that we can be here and present.Being present, it is also easier to discern which information is relevant to us. This discernment isn’t possible being...2018-05-0718 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipLeadership and Mindfulness… a conversation with Jane GraftonToday Ross and Antoinette met with Jane Grafton…. Jane is a certified coach (ICF) and senior trainer with the Potential Project, a leading global corporate-based mindfulness training company. Jane shares the central insight she gained through her work with the Potential Project: the distinction between the talkative and the observing mind. The wandering, narrative mind goes off in all sorts of directions, and we have hardly any control over it, whereas that other part of us observes the wandering mind, and is a best described as a space of clarity and aware...2018-04-2418 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGood Leaders stop their energy leaksIn our podcast, https://soul-inspired-leadership.com/episodes/ Janice Kobelsky defined “strength as high levels of energy, where we feel engaged and can create value.” We also briefly mentioned the fact that we face energy draining situations on a daily basis, often without being aware of it. The things you do either give you energy or drain you. Choose wisely.Anonymous Ross: “It is your choice how you react to things.” Apart from reacting wisely the idea here is to become increasingly aware how people, situations or thoughts drain our life energ...2018-04-1315 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipLeadership: Inspire with your upwards spiraling energy: Special guest Janice KobelskyToday we have the pleasure to be in conversation with Janice Kobelsky. https://janicekobelsky.mykajabi.com/blog Janice’ work in high-performance leadership and personal excellence is very much aligned with the Soul-Inspired-Leadership mantra “Be true to your inner self to inspire as a leader.”For Janice, the deciding place in being authentic is to discover what allows you to create joy in your own life and the life of others.This only happens when you have clarity about who you are and what your strengths are. Janice defines strength as those areas w...2018-04-0424 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipLeadership: Inspire with your upwards spiraling energy: Special guest Janice KobelskyToday we have the pleasure to be in conversation with Janice Kobelsky. https://janicekobelsky.mykajabi.com/blog Janice’ work in high-performance leadership and personal excellence is very much aligned with the Soul-Inspired-Leadership mantra “Be true to your inner self to inspire as a leader.”For Janice, the deciding place in being authentic is to discover what allows you to create joy in your own life and the life of others.This only happens when you have clarity about who you are and what your strengths are. Janice defines strength as those areas w...2018-04-0424 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipCreating Balance and Consistency in Leadership Our guest in today's podcast is Natasha Dalmia, management consultant, international coach, and author of "Practice of Satsang".Sat' means truth and 'Sanga' means company. Satsang is an old Sanskrit word meaning 'being with the truth', and 'gathering together to find the truth'. In this book, she explores how conscious living enables us to celebrate the truth of who we are. As an authentic leader, being connected with your soul, with who you are, makes it easier to communicate with others and see them for who they are....2018-03-2119 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipLeadership self discovery… being aware of the subtle changesThe Subtle Changes of Transformation For us to live a healthy life full of vitality body, mind and spirit need to be in the balance.To achieve this balance, it is essential to become familiar with one's inner dynamics and to sift through our shadows, as well as our masks and roles we are hanging on to.We all have an energy field around us which stores a vast amount of information, dating way back into childhood and even into our ancestry. In Energy Medicine, the necessary work to balance volatility o...2018-03-0414 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipAuthentic leadership… being true to your inner self In the midst of an uncomfortable situation, where a part of us is afraid to face the truth, our mind quickly tries to stir us into a space of safety through self-deception or blaming others.With self-awareness, it is possible to detect what is going on - either by being mindful of one's thoughts or by engaging the body's wisdom as a gaging tool. Notice how the body reacts meeting someone whom we feel uncomfortable with. Compare that with the physical response bumping into our best friend. There is always a physical reaction to thoughts a...2018-02-1912 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipBrave leadership, connecting with people at a deep levelSome of Kimberly Davis conversation points in our last podcast stayed with us over the last week. The main topic of today will be the need of humans to connect with each other.As human beings, it is one of our deepest desires to connect and build relationships. To create rewarding and meaningful relationships, it is essential to communicate with each other on a much deeper level.To be able to do so genuinely, courage is needed for us to establish our most crucial primary relationship, a relationship with ourselves. That is connecting with your...2018-02-0514 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipBrave leadership: an interview with leadership expert Kimberly DavisIn the discussion with Ross Swan and Kimberly Davis on Brave LeadershipYou will learn:How Kimberly defines what it takes for a leader to be braveWhy focusing on others and not yourself has the greatest impact on good leadershipWhy a leader should always be aware of their impact on othersReaching out to the emotions of others so they want to come to work and not just feel they have to, for survivalBeing true to your inner self by connecting with your soul, gives you the authenticity and consistency that people crave for in leadersThat Brave Leadership is...2018-01-2421 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipCorporate WellnessVery often people pay attention to their health only after it becomes compromised. We hear all the time that prevention is better than trying to cure. Unfortunately, only proactive people take the preventative measures. Hence the ever-expanding health industry.When looking at corporate wellness, there should be no difference. The smarter more proactive ones, look at preventative corporate wellness measures and reap the benefits of a healthy workforce, while the remainder saves on the small cost of wellness programs and waits for the much larger costs of absenteeism, staff turnover, and worsening employee engagement figures of an...2018-01-1111 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipSoul Inspired Leadership and Technology… a real life exampleI started coaching a client who was from the oil industry as part of a leadership development program.We had a good connection and effective progress was made. Our sessions consisted of one on one coaching and observations in meetings etc. Skills were enhanced when it came to connecting with people and having them respond in a proactive way to what was required for the job.I addition to this work our client was introduced to our TimeWaver technology to help him with some specific people challenges he was facing that was affecting him. These...2017-12-0512 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipLeadership… Why Soul Inspired?With the ever-increasing competitiveness in the business world today, companies need leaders who are focused on getting more effective results from their people which means they are willing to leave their own self-interests behind and keep the long-term goals in mind. In this podcast, we discuss why leaders should be less self-interested and more focused on getting the best out of their people which in turn manifests in better results.To achieve this, leaders need to connect with their employees in order to help them identify with the mission and the vision of their company. They need t...2017-11-2113 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipConsistent behaviours…. a pathway to good leadershipRobert Cialdini’s research has shown that consistency is one of the most important aspects people appreciate in relationships and communication.It creates a safe environment for people to freely express themselves because they now work within safe parameters.For leaders, this consistency needs to be developed by being in touch with oneself, increasing self-awareness and authenticity in expression and behaviours.The challenge for leaders is in when in stressful situations, they often react based on subconscious beliefs about themselves, others and the world. An automatic response gets triggered which is often the compl...2017-11-1509 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipA Cluttered Mind = Stress and ForgetfulnessRoss shares his experience with an executive who experienced difficulties at his workplace, especially lack of focus, a drop in efficiency and output. Visiting the office of that client made it apparent quite quickly that the cluttered environment had a direct impact on the client's ability to focus and have clarity.Of course, there are those who insist that they do know where that particular document is on their desk that you’re asking for or that having a disorganized workplace is a sign of flexibility.We underestimate how significant clutter is a source of st...2017-11-0614 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipImproving Leadership traits through TechnologyOn various occasions in the last podcasts, we often described how we could gain knowledge on the correlations of behaviours and deep-rooted beliefs. You may have noticed that we are confident that we can help coaches to make their work more robust by using Information Field Technology.What is Information Field Technology?Many cultures based their whole philosophy on the understanding that every thought, every event, every memory gets stored as a vibrational information in a non-physical space. This idea by now finally gains acceptance by modern scientists, quantum physicists, and philosophers.The...2017-10-2614 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipOur Soul-Inspired-Leadership-CommunityWe aim to create a community that offers the space for members to connect on a much deeper level with other like-minded coaches, establish a collaborative support system to explore ourselves, our visions, our relationship with clients besides learning new skills, be exposed to new ideas and share each other’s expertise. And if that leads to collaboration with each other, unexpected new avenues of reaching out to others and sharing our talents and ideas, perfect. Antoinette recently participated in the Ignite Video Challenge, partly to expand her comfort zone and some...2017-10-1710 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipCommunication – A cause for volatile leadership behaviourAn effective, clear and concise communication is essential in life, whether it is in relationships at home, the workplace, interactions during travels, day to day activities. Communication is more than just the spoken word, it also includes nonverbal communication, such as eye contact, body language, also the vibes that you transmit, the message you get across in a variety of different ways without saying anything. In this podcast, we focus on the polarity between blunt or direct and diplomatic communication. The base of any communication ideally is res...2017-10-0515 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipInsecurity – A cause for volatile leadership behaviorOne of the most deeply rooted feelings which can cause volatile leadership behavior is the feeling of insecurity. We all feel insecure from time to time, and leaders aren’t excluded. Insecurity may express itself in the need to take on more projects, or accumulate more and more titles, or by verbally lashing out.Executive coaches see this volatile and inconsistent behaviour in executives quite often as they are given the task of helping executive be more consistent and balanced in their approach to their leadershipWhen referencing Dan Harrison, of Harrison Assessments Int’l Ltd...2017-09-2513 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipDeep rooted behavioral issues in leadership – How to overcome themVolatile behaviors are often considered a stumbling block for great leadership. Where do they come from and what is the cause for it?The consequences of past events, circumstances and behaviors influence the actions and beliefs a person creates about themselves, others and the world at that moment. These are then the reference for future behaviors and perspectives.These imprints can be deep rooted or rather on the surface, still in the awareness of the person, for example as a consequence from an experience at the workplace. It could be a colleague or former boss...2017-09-0812 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipGoing to the core that determines behaviours According to scientists an information field is a space where all mental and physical processes are stored as information patterns.Everything we think, feel, all our beliefs, emotional needs, experiences are stored as vibration in this field and is accessible.Carl Jung recognized that the individual unconsciousness is in communication with what he calls the collective unconscious, a kind of global information field. Burkhardt Heim, a German Physicist, formulated a uniform field theory, which was relevant for the creation of the TimeWaver Technology.TimeWaver technology creates the quantum physics interface to c...2017-08-1716 minSoul-Inspired-LeadershipSoul-Inspired-Leadership… The journey beginsSoul-Inspired-Leadership is borne out of the mutual desire of Ross and Antoinette to bring something essential back into leadership – soul.In today's business world, being an authentic and a well-balanced leader is a well-intended goal. In reality, most leaders struggle to manage this. In order to be truly authentic, they need to connect with their soul, their inner truth and then lead from there.To be truly authentic leaders, it requires that desire to really explore and know oneself. It then demands good degree of self-awareness, the courage to be vulnerable and compassionate, and the abil...2017-08-0316 min