Waching daily May 30 2017

How do I know when I need to change my leadership style?

A little bit of history

from my perspective and how I learned to

to identify what what the triggers are

for when people aren't connecting with you

has just come basically from experience.

I've worked with several different leadership teams

over my 40 some year career

and you really do get to see

the behaviors and the the changes of cultures

and in each office you go into

that really should and be an almost

intuitive and when you need to change your focus

change your sense of direction and how you lead.

There are basics -

the principles for me you're always being

open and honest, communicative, collaborative,

but sometimes you just have to tweak those things

that are your management style

to make sure that you're connecting

with the people you're leading

and you'll know that.

It is more of a gut reaction, trusting your instincts

but you will know it by the way your team

behaves around you.

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What is a job you can count on? - Duration: 1:24.

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Alchemy with Sharon Ramel - Duration: 5:08.

Sharon Ramel with you from the couch.

Let's talk about a word called alchemy.

This comes from a question that I was

asked recently, "what is alchemy?" Alchemy

has seven stages; calcination, dissolution,

separation, conjunction, fermentation,

distillation and coagulation. And they

help us to recognize our souls journey

and transformation. It is an unfolding,

a working within you as your soul

continues to deepen its own essential

essence. Trust the processes, trust the

transformation. Each stage involves a

breaking down of your egoic strength and

it may seem difficult, challenging,

revealing and yet deeply deeply healing.

For fear not you will experience these

different stages throughout your life

and not necessarily in order.

However you may recognize them more as

phases than actual delineated stages.

Alchemy helps work with us to surrender

to the stage that we are in to live it

from the truth of our heart. The first

stage; calculation purify the fire. It

burns away the way we attempt to control

our life through our ego, it reveals the

wounds that we've never even really

realized that were actually there. During

calcination we may feel like our life is

in ashes gone up in flames before us

because so much has been revealed in the

burning; that letting go. The second stage

dissolution: dissolves through emotion as

we release deep held buried feelings

from this and other lifetimes. We can

experience deep sadness, almost despair,

as we dissolve into tears perhaps crying for

days our tears dissolve, they let go,

they allow us to break down additional

layers of our egos attachments, drives

and beliefs. Writing the flow of our

soul when it is an essence once again.

The third stage separation it distracts

from discards the aspects of your self

that are no longer useful. Releasing

destructive habits and behavior patterns

for within separation there is a

rediscovery of the greater discernment

of what is actually worthy of being

saved the literally filtering out all

that we no longer leave discarding it

all those patterns that don't work for

us any longer as you may have discovered

if you've been on my life purpose

through yoga nidra course. The fourth stage

if conjunction and these takes us to

union through the joining of the

masculine and the feminine divine selves

all of us assisting us to bring forward

and open to our true self

we experience and deep integration as

coming from a path that feels truer to

our whole self. We are in fact in

wholeness rather than separate beings.

The fifth stage is fermentation. It's a

composting stage, and during this stage

we may go through a 'dark night of the

soul' as this stage cooks and melds the

many layers of our souls essence. Then we

are followed by distillation the

impurities in consciousness release for

the refinement of our more authentic

self and the seventh and final stage is

coagulation where we enter atonement

with the mind of the divine and the

birth of the universe is complete fully

integrated. Alchemy transforms us into

beings of divine essence. We don't always

go through these stages in the order

that I have mentioned and you may

experience a particular phase

collectively or personally. So for

example; if you live in a war zone

clearly the entire country is

experiencing this dissolution and

separation both collectively and

personally from the tragic event. We may

go through a climatic

event such as a severe

flooding, or a change of government

leadership and or policies. We go

through the change during the

dissolution we experienced deeply-held

emotions and then as a part of the

separation state will work through the

rubble we separate what needs to stay

and what we need to discard!

So we may then move on and experience

the true transformation both personally

or as a collective on the planet right

here and now. So this has been a very

brief look at alchemy, a magical

wonderful way to make sense of our life.

For more infomation >> Alchemy with Sharon Ramel - Duration: 5:08.

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How do you ensure the well-being of people in your team? - Duration: 1:09.

I think the best way to ensure well-being of people in a team

is to get alongside them, to get to know them a bit better.

Probably build a rapport,

get to know a bit more about

what they're interested in and get them

to a point where they feel comfortable

telling you if they're not okay,

coming to you if they have got too much work, whether it be personal or operational.

I think really just get to know them,

get them comfortable with you

and also, maybe create a team culture where other people

are happy to sidle up to you and say,

"I think so and so is struggling with something"

but I think just make it okay

for everyone to express how they're feeling

and make sure that you try

and anticipate people's needs ahead of time, as well

just to make sure they've got everything they need

and I think inherently people overestimate what they will have time for

or what they can do

or what they can take on because they want

to really want to do a good job.

So, I think part of that is

a leader's responsibility to manage to a point as well.

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What's the one area of leadership that unnerves you? - Duration: 1:01.

So for me personally, I've always found it a little difficult

to make those really cold relationships.

So when you need to go out and make

those relationships with key stakeholders,

if I don't know them, it's an area that often makes me feel

a little uneasy because I have an inherent shyness

which probably doesn't fit with the role that I do.

But what I've absolutely learnt is that you need to build

on those sort of areas of weakness and become good at them

so that you've got those key relationships in place when you really need them.

And an example of that was when I was the incident commander for the Spring Hill riot,

one of the very senior police commanders

just came into that area just to be there and support

because I had already established

that key relationship many years beforehand.

For more infomation >> What's the one area of leadership that unnerves you? - Duration: 1:01.

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What advice can you give to new leaders? - Duration: 0:56.

I think there are four really key bits of advice that I would give to new leaders.

Firstly is to really understand the system in which your organisation or your team operates in.

Secondly, is to get to know your staff.

Spend that time, get to know them

because that will really determine what sort of leadership style you will take with your team.

Thirdly, it's okay not to know everything.

Okay, you've got subject matter experts, you know, specialised positions.

Use them for help and for guidance.

And lastly I think it's really important that you practice what you preach.

So, if you were talking about team work and collaboration

that you as a leader are at least showing that and living those types of values or initiatives.