WELCOME to MINDFUL LEADERSHIP
Mindful Leadership: Empower Your Best Self
Mindfulness begins with you and is all about you. It is time for yourself, with yourself. At Leading Edge Teams, we are honored to raise your awareness to the benefits of MINDFUL LEADERSHIP, a nonjudgmental, present-moment, mind-heart consciousness. It is a quiet experience, and an appreciation of your inner self.
Mindfulness quiets the noise allowing time and space to listen to inner guidance. Mindfulness is resting. Mindfulness is living in the present-moment. It is an acceptance of your feelings, thoughts and sensations. Mindfulness brings forward the potential to become the person you want to be, developing the best version of yourself. Tying this into your work life, it influences self-leadership, your choices and your role, giving you a significant impact on others.
As we introduce MINDFUL LEADERSHIP to you, we ask that you courageously welcome the benefits it offers you: Manage stress. Neutralize judgment. Increase compassion (toward yourself and others). Pause and observe. Regulate emotions to avoid reactive behaviors. Increase confidence. Clarify thinking and actions. Become centered in your secure self through mindfulness practice. There really are no limitations; much is available to you when you choose to embrace and make the most of this practice.
The shift to mindfulness encourages and welcomes expanded awareness of inner interpretations. By expanding your secure self, we encourage you to intentionally release expectations of perfection and judgment of yourself and others. Mindfulness makes space to expand your perspective of the possibilities today holds.
And as you abandon previous habits of behavior not beneficial to you, welcome learning how to stay present in your best self in an imperfect world full of imperfect people. Appreciate what is available to you right here, right now. Live in today’s present moment, not in regrets of yesterday and not in concerns of tomorrow.
Benefits of Mindful Leadership
SEEDS of MINDFUL LEADERSHIP are spread to those in your sphere of influence each day. Again we welcome you to take a fresh look with us as we further our journey into MINDFUL LEADERSHIP. Let’s get on with it!
Begin to SEED: Your journey into a mindfulness practice will SHIFT, ENHANCE, EMPOWER, DEFINE your best self. It will further your secure self, propel confident business leadership, and build trusted relationships within your organization.
Shift
- Shift to mindfulness that encourages and welcomes greater inner awareness. Be intentional. Pause. Breathe.
- Gain awareness of your inner wisdom (soul self) with the desire to move what comes forward into action.
- Expand viewpoint and perspective. See current circumstances and change through a fresh lens.
- Recognize your soul, your heartbeat, your true (deeper) self.
- Identify and minimize self-protection and mindsets that are self-limiting.
- Practice shifting your stress to becoming your best self today.
- Adapt to a different way of thinking about empowerment in your role, the part you play.
- Courageously welcome change and go for transformation.
- Promote and model calm and adaptability to change.
- Make a commitment to yourself to develop mindful leadership.
- Be curious. Be kind. Embrace peace.
Empower
- Increase confidence to take effective action within your role. Demonstrate compassionate leadership authority.
- Accept what currently “is” and have a willingness to consider something new, or adopt a new way of doing things.
- Gain personal courage and confidence (in a variety of ways).
- Receive creative inspiration and find new ways of expression.
- Release distractions.
- Adopt self-leadership for yourself. “Let go” of control and accept what is.
- Increase focus. Prioritize quiet time to sit with thoughts, develop creative elements, and expand new learning.
- Discover your potential.
- Unlock inner strengths.
- Strengthen self-acceptance.
- Enjoy a personal willingness and excitement to practice a mindfulness journey going forward.
- Be curious. Be kind. Embrace peace.
ENHANCE
- Incorporate and develop new learning, experiences and perspectives on your leadership journey. Grow.
- Focus on making the most of this very moment, today.
- Strengthen clear, confident decision-making.
- Reduce reactive, stressful behaviors. Function uniquely and differently.
- Courageously lead yourself and others.
- Work with a team in a safe and trusting, creative and collaborative space.
- Broaden your perspective. Listen more, talk less.
- Inspire trust, empower others through heart centered relating.
- Think collectively regarding opportunities that arise due to change.
- Acknowledge your own growth and achievement.
- Celebrate others' contribution to the team's learning and success, as well as their own individual achievements.
DEFINE
- Understand (be mindful) of the nature and essential qualities of yourself as a person and business leader. Characterize.
- Master inner skills as you cultivate outer capabilities.
- Become a proactive leader committed to inner growth and transformative change.
- Embrace “outside the box.” critical thinking. Be a world changer.
- Trust your ability to discern. Model sound decision-making.
- Adopt self-leadership for yourself.“Let go” of control and accept what is.
- Personally impact individuals through demonstrating compassion, empathy, and appropriate vulnerability.
- Share knowledge.
- Know that to reset, readjust, and reorganize are part of the business journey.
- Welcome, teach and influence others forward in their extraordinary, transformative journey to leadership excellence.
- Provide clear information and methods to others, to realize the company vision.
Today and each day going forward, it’s your choice to put mindfulness into practice. We provide the foundation for you to develop your inner self into your best self, through our CCORE Empowerment Process which we teach and refer back to frequently. This provides guidance and steps toward being able to rest in and achieve a solid foundation in MINDFUL LEADERSHIP.
Rooted in Leading Edge Teams’ CCORE EMPOWERMENT PROCESS, we raise your awareness to default human wiring, which is great for saving us from immediate physical danger. However, the innate human protective defaults of fight, flight, flee or freeze, are not so great for the challenges you typically face in consistently being your best self in business.
The CCORE EMPOWERMENT PROCESS is an internal process that helps you recognize what self-protection looks like in yourself and in others. Making the most of this process is not limited to your professional life, it benefits your personal life as well.
The CCORE process, the steps, once learned and practiced, bring self-awareness and sound habits of behavior that model MINDFUL LEADERSHIP to others:
Clarify the situation
Choose your impact
Observe your thoughts and feelings
Release judgment to compassion
Engage your secure self
