You can find your own path and feel confident about acting on your ideas to create a better future for the world with meaning, intelligence and sensitivity.
The ability to understand and collaborate with others has become an indispensable skill for the development of relationships between individuals, cultures and ideas.
Leveraging simplicity to manage complexity
Leadership must be built step by step, through the gestures and conversations every day. The demands and challenges of the 21st century are neither static nor linear. Globalism and the speed at which information is exchanged, both of which give rise to complexity, are central to these challenges.
We need to find ways to leverage simplicity to manage increasingly complex and unpredictable situations. We need to develop an approach that uses sense to underpin sustainable success.
A leader builds the confidence necessary to make sound decisions that are the result of consultations, exchange, and debates. When employed with courage, empathy, humility and resilience, the leader stimulates creative initiatives and generates sense that drives action and results. These leaders are not just the CEOs, business owners or executives; they are everywhere in the business or organisation.
It is the leader's responsibility to use the right techniques to engage each person in a way that speaks to her/him, to respect her/him as an individual, to place trust and confidence in her/his ability to work effectively with the right guidance.
A leader creates himself or herself step by step, over time, through gestures and acts of self-construction in relation to others. By exploring what divides or creates distance between individuals, we come to know ourselves and become more agile.
The wider the division, the greater the effort needed to understand the other, and the more agility and self-knowledge is gained in the task of understanding. Interpersonal connections and common ground emerge along the way. These efforts enable us to build the confidence needed to exercise leadership as a process of influence with composure.
This capacity is a major step toward exercising responsible, people-centred leadership that is driven by a common purpose and the desire to build sense for them and for the organisation.
Many business owners, executives and entrepreneurs are used to doing things their own way and find building self confidence and trust with others challenging at different times, therefore find it difficult to accept criticism or guidance. Yet, one of the best sources for an unofficial business education is a good mentor coach.
What is a mentor coach?
Someone who is really interested in helping you accomplish your goals. You can talk to them when you run into problems or want to prevent problems from developing.
Why find a mentor coach?
If you get into a situation that feels uncomfortable, simply talking to your mentor coach can clear up the cobwebs. Mentoring used to be the norm. People would spend time with a master craftsman as they learned their trade. As we've moved to a technical information economy, those kinds of relationships seem to be lost. But we need high touch as well as high tech.
What do you talk to a mentor coach about?
Anything you'd like some perspective on. Pressing decisions, setting priorities, personal or professional plans, problems. They can also put you in touch with people who can help you reach your goals.
What qualities should you look for in a mentor coach?
The short answer is a mix of real-world business experience, competencies and insight. It should be someone who has had a similar experience that you wish to have. Someone with high integrity who can be trusted. Someone who is politically savvy. Someone who believes in "tough love" and can tell you the way it is.
How do you find a mentor coach?
Look for someone you respect and make sure you "click." Look for people who have worked with a professional executive/business coach within all of your social and professional networks. When you find them, ask about their experience working with their mentor coach.
Once you identify a prospective mentor coach, it is up to you to engage that person in an open-ended mentoring/coaching relationship. Have realistic expectations; a mentor coach is not going to solve all your career or personal problems. However, you may be surprised at the new clarity and confidence you will acquire through this new interpersonal relationship.
Reference: Valérie Gauthier: “Leading with Sense: The Intuitive Power of Savoir-Relier” …Savoir-relier teaches leaders to tap into their senses in the midst of strategising, allowing them to act intuitively and rationally at once. Few leaders dare to claim that their "gut feelings" are critical to their decisions.
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