By Dr. Ron Passfield
In sharing her life story in abbreviated form at a technology conference, Goldie Hawn manifested what we have described as mindful leadership. Goldie was participating in the final day of the conference which was devoted to how mindfulness practices can develop a person’s potential. She certainly epitomised what can happen when we grow in mindfulness. … Continue reading “Mindful Leadership: Goldie Hawn”
What do you think it would be like to follow a mindful leader, someone with advanced emotional intelligence skills? As we have discussed, mindful leadership entails self-awareness, self-management, motivation, empathy and social skills (compassion and communicating with insight). The mindful leader attracts and inspires followers because of these characteristics. They have a highly developed level of … Continue reading “Mindful Leadership: Inspiring Followers”
In a previous post, we discussed how mindfulness helps us to increase our sense of control over our internal environment and responses to external stimuli. However, there are times when we have to give up control over our external environment to enable others to gain a sense of control over their work or environment. A … Continue reading “Grow Your Influence by Letting Go”
Our family has had a long-standing tradition of solving a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle whenever we go away on holidays for more than a week. The collaborative endeavour of solving the jigsaw puzzle has a relaxing effect, builds relationships and facilitates conversation. Recently, my wife and I went on a holiday and in line with our family … Continue reading “Reflection and the Art of Solving Jigsaw Puzzles”
One of the most powerful things that we did during the two days of the Search Inside Yourself public program in Sydney was a process described as 3 Minute Journaling. The basic idea is to write your responses to a number of stimulus questions without lifting your pen from the paper. Often there are three questions. … Continue reading “3 Minute Journaling”
