[Neurons] 2010 Meta Reflections #39

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2010 - #39

August 23, 2010

 

 

 

UNLEASHING SELF-ACTUALIZING LEADERS

 

 

Yesterday I completed the 12 Unleashing Leadership workshop.  This time in
Auckland New Zealand, where along with Colin Cox and Lena Gray, members of
the Neuro-Semantic Leadership Team, we had 5 other Neuro-Semantic Trainers
and a whole lot of people really passionately committed to their own
development as leaders.  And that made the experience really an enjoyable
one.  What's in that training?  

Two key things: first unleashing leadership potential through the use of the
Matrix Model and second, then utilizing that leadership to create a
self-actualizing company (or family, community, organization).

 

And if you don't know it, this is a world of incredible potential -the
potential to identify, develop, and unleash the leadership potential in
people.  Why?  How is this?  It is because we need leaders at every level in
life, home, school, business, government.  And more than that, we need good
leaders.  If we had good leaders, leaders skilled and competent, this world
would be tremendously better.

 

And what if we had great leaders!  Imagine that.  And while we're on this
line of imagination, what if we had truly enlightened leaders!  Leaders
enlightened about human nature- the best in human nature, what the hearts of
human beings everywhere really want and hunger for.  What if we had leaders
enlightened about self-actualization psychology and competent to lead
self-actualizing individuals, families, companies, communities, and
countries!?

 

Leaders - are they born or made?  Once upon a time that was the big argument
in the field of leadership.  Back then people queried, "Is leadership
genetic or can it be nurtured and developed?"  But no longer.  That argument
and controversy occurred when leadership was considered a matter of traits-
innate traits that a person was born with.  Today we know better.  Today we
can do so much better.

 

Today we know that because there are so many kinds of leaders, dimensions of
leadership, and levels of leadership, there are no single set of traits that
define "a leader."  Leaders come in all shapes and sizes, traits and
qualities, styles and attributes.  And at different levels and in different
dimensions, a leader needs different qualities.  He or she will need to
demonstrate different skills and different styles.  And that's partly also
because leadership is functional to a situation.

 

As a leader, what leadership function are you needing to perform?  The
function in a given situation will define what will be effective and what
will be ineffective leadership for you.  Do you know that?  The function in
that situation will call forth a certain set of skills that will be required
of you if you are to be effective.

 

Now at the heart of true leadership is leading and leading (as an
unspecified verb) has to be contextualized.  Who are you leading?  To where?
In what area or dimension?  For what purpose?  Then, after you have
contextualize the situation in which you will lead and the skill-set
required for that function, you have to do an evaluation of the quality of
your leadership competencies.

Are you competent to do that function?  To what degree?  Do you have that
potential?  How much has been identified, developed, and unleashed?  How
much more could be unleashed?

 

And when you answer those questions- you are at the door labeled,
"Unleashing Your Leadership Potentials."  Enter there and you enter into the
journey, the adventure of becoming more and more the leader you can become.
And it is a journey, a journey of learning, growing, and developing.  It is
a self-actualization journey.

 

Using Self-Actualization Psychology, leadership bringing out the best in
people.  It is that simple.  And it is that unique and scarce.   Too much
leadership is money driven, greed-driven, ego-driven, status-driven -driven
by everything but the true heart and passion of leadership: bringing out the
best in people. profound!

 

And, of course, if a leadership isn't properly driven by this as their
authentic intention and meaning, then their leadership will be a joke.  It
will be ineffective and at best, only in name.  In fact, I would guess that
90% of all leaders do not really have a clue about leadership.  And maybe
the percentage is higher than that.  I was recently with a group of senior
managers / leaders (at least that's what they called themselves) but they
were not executive or operational leaders at all; they were bureaucrats pure
and simple and their primary mission as far as I could detect was to protect
the status quo.  And I told them, "I don't think you have a clue about true
authentic leadership." 

 

True leadership is radical- to be an authentic leader you have to believe in
people's potentials and that typically means believing in them much more
than they believe in themselves.  It means challenging them to be more than
they are now, stretching them to be all that they can be.

 

Post Note:  

I only have one more public training of Unleashing Leadership this year.  So
if you'd like to experience Leadership in a whole new and higher dimension-
contact Gilles Roy for the training in Southern France this October.  Hope
to see you there!

 

Details: 

            October 1-3, 2010 in Avignon France - organized by Gilles Roy

 <mailto:Gilles.roy2 at orange.fr> Gilles.roy2 at orange.fr               -
<mailto:gilles.roy2 at wanadoo.fr> gilles.roy2 at wanadoo.fr 

 

 

 

 

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