When you combine mindful and leader, it means you have the capacity to lead while staying calm, cool and collected in the present moment. You don’t let yourself get too far ahead, projecting fear onto the future, and you don’t get dragged down by the mistakes of the past.
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Importance of Inner Healing for Women Leaders and Entrepreneurs
When you’ve done your own inner work, you increase your ability to stay calm. Your calmness helps keep others calm, and when that happens, you have peaceful productivity and much more fun.
Understanding Mindful Leadership
One of the key components of mindful leadership is to be respectful of other human beings and different viewpoints. Treat them like you would someone you really care about. Truly give them the benefit of the doubt. People tend to live up to our expectations of them. Our beliefs become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The benefit of mindful leadership for both leaders and team members is to connect with each other. When you feel close and connected, your trust in that person increases. I have found where there is trust, anything is possible. You become much more creative and resourceful when it comes to idea generation and problem resolution. And it just feels good to be around people you feel connected to.
4 Strategies for Mindful Leadership
1. Mindful Communication
We each have different experiences that form our unique personalities. No one can really know what someone else has gone through and what makes them tick.
If you had a microscope into another’s past, their behaviors and attitudes would make sense. To mindfully communicate, you need to know your audience. It’s always a good idea to have empathy for what others might be going through. If all you remember is that people have good reasons for feeling, thinking, and acting as they do, this will help you develop empathy and better communication skills.
Try to be as clear about what you want and need as possible. Often we don’t clearly communicate because we’re afraid of hurting the other person’s feelings. Keep in mind though that not being upfront in the present will often have more damaging consequences down the road.
2. Compassionate Leadership
Your employee, co-worker, virtual assistant, independent contractor, vendor, and yes, even your boss, is a human being with needs, wants, loves, longings, disappointments, fears, joys, just like you.
3. Intention and Self-Awareness
There is a lot going on in the world that could cause you to NOT be self-aware and to escape your feelings. Unfortunately, anxiety and stress are here to stay. How you confront these difficult feelings is the game changer.
4. Decision-Making
This isn’t coddling John and enabling his excuses and rationalizations. Rather, it’s seeing him as human and holding him to a standard of accountability that will develop him into the highest version of himself.
Conclusion
When you mindfully communicate with those you work with, bring compassion to each situation, stay present to your difficult feelings by breathing through them, and bring your intuition to your decision-making, you increase your positive impact as a mindful leader.
