Leadership and Neuroscience Coach
Read more in this months newsletter
The pace of change continues to grow. The requirement to adapt and adjust is ever increasing. Having patience with the adjustments for your self and those you lead is known to create calm and shorten the anxiety period that change can create.
How would rate your followership skills?
In my September Newsletter the main feature subject is of following and how it compares to leading. How different is it really? What skills can followers and team members develop that will prepare them for being great leaders?
In reading this, you find along with my thoughts an article from Harvard Business Review.
Additionally, and based on one of the skills of leading, the topic of creativity is explored with four ideas that can expand thinking, opportunities, perspective etc. Of course, there are more ways but hey, you have to start somewhere.
You’ll also find a video link to show more of how the brain is operating when being creative.
I haven’t suggested ‘brainstorming’ directly in the creative section of the newsletter.
Sometimes ‘brainstorming’ gets a bad press and I see eyes raise to heavens on the mention of it. Let me give it a new focus.
Brainstorming is about creativity and not only can it mean great ideas are collated. It will test your brain, exercise it, encourage it to connect your knowledge, feelings and experiences together. This firing of neurons helps you brain as it ages, keeps it fitter for longer, can help it to keep working well when aging causes less able parts of the brain to function as well as they once did.
‘The possibility of something bad happening’
My August newsletter explores risk. One’s relationship with it, how this changes and the impact of your risk levels on those you lead.
It includes links:
The main feature of the latest newsletter
“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts.
It’s about one life influencing another” John C Maxwell
The main feature of my latest newsletter is one many of us have or will recognise. Leaders have leaders too, and as the case study shows it can be as hard managing up as a leader as it is as a contributor. See if this example transforms how you interact with others
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This section of the newsletter looks at worrying. Worrying is both positive and negative if out of balance. Included here are 4 tips test out if you find worrying is taking over. There are many more ideas you can draw on but this is the 4 tips section … 🙂
At Head4leadership I talk about coaching a lot and offer 4 services in that space. Also, I offer skills workshops that are also essential for leaders to explore and practice. Check out the link in the newsletter or on my website. They can increase motivation for activities and goals that are challenging. Collaboration in learning and being accountable and enhance perfromance.
One articles in this months newsletter invites you to ask yourself four questions to inquire into the truth of your beliefs.
I was introduced to these questions earlier in the year and to ‘The work’ of Byron Katie. Coaches need coaches and these questions have helped me to question my perceptions and as necessary, update them.
Read about ‘Sam’ whose use of language meant he took on far more than his own responsibilities.
The coaching that he embraced gave him heightened awareness and consciousness of the words he was using. It had a big impact on his team’s performance, focus and motivation. The newsletter contains a focus for using the right pronoun at the right time.
