Benefits
Successful leaders must continuously adapt
Yet even with extensive traditional coaching, CEOs revert to familiar patterns during high-pressure situations (reactive leadership), something that leads them to move away from novel creativity and clarity.
This lack of neuroplasticity can hinder their ability to lead effectively in today’s VUCA world.
We emphasize transformation — of the mind, heart, and gut —because you can no longer afford to just think differently. You need to be different.
5 Core Pillars
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Choice
Young leaders react. Mature leaders choose.
When we slow down our minds, we can see there is always a choice point before we react.
Slowing down allows us to choose our response and see outside of our predictable reactions. This is necessary to respond intelligently to an ever more complex world.
Gain the capacity to see what’s really happening
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Awareness
Any competent leader can change what they think — they’ve done this many times in their careers.
When you learn to listen to what’s underneath your mind, you gain access to a deeper intelligence of gut, heart, and a deeper knowing — awareness — that transcends merely changing what you think. It changes how you think.
Without this, you will continue to react in predictable ways, ways that have worked in the past but will fail in the future.
Cultivate clarity & novel creativity
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Polarity
Mature leaders see how focusing on one pole of success or improvement sets them up to fail at the other pole.
Without using paradox and polarity, long-term innovation over time is impossible.
Examples: Customer Service vs Employee Satisfaction, Low Cost vs Service Excellence, Failure is Necessary for Success, and Go Slow to Go Fast.
By embracing both/and solutions, antifragility is created against novel market changes.
Develop an antifragile mindset that thrives on change
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Care
Knowing what you really care about allows you to create the kinds of change that factor competing values and differing kinds of integrity.
The bigger picture of care provides a more accurate context for key decisions.
Care includes a number of circles. We have a responsibility to shareholders, company culture (its health and sustainability), financial growth, employee retention, environmental concerns, and diversity.
Discover what really matters
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Integration
Your strengths blindly repeated become a weakness, even a failure, over time.
Leaders must know and be able to use and integrate information from their heads, hearts, and guts.
Integration is where paradox and polarity are seen, held, and transformed into opportunity.
See reactions transformed into responses
These allow our clients to:
1.) See what’s in front of them (polarity), rather than what appears to be in front
2.) Understand what’s (really) at stake ( care, not just values or integrity)
3.) Slow down, so they can stretch out of their comfort zone of habitual patterns and instincts (choice and awareness)
4. Do the work in a way that creates permanent neuroplasticity and anti-fragility (integration)