1. Leading from the Inside Out
“Leadership is, at root, about understanding and managing
our own internal experience.” Schaetti, Watanabe, Ramsey
Leading in the 21st Century
Presenter: Taruni Falconer, BA, MEdc, Dip Tchg, FICI
Associate Facilitator Personal Leadership LLC
Master Facilitator Cultural Detective° Global Series


2. Why lead from the inside out?
Organisations across the globe are finding that the realities of our times are calling us to take ever more conscious leadership – of ourselves, of our teams, of our distributed workforce, of our organisations.
Yet it isn't the taking of leadership itself that is important, it is in how we lead that we make the difference.

3. So, what can support us as leaders in moments,
in interactions of high change & fluidity?
Personal Leadership LLC is an approach of 2 interrelated principles &
6 practices that help us stay connected to inspiration even in the face of the new, unfamiliar, ambiguous, & unexpected.
Creativity
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4. Something’s up! The “Critical Moment Dialogue”
of Personal Leadership method
CMD, the core process technology
of Personal Leadership method,
gives us a reflective tool to use
in those “Something’s Up/
trigger moments in the midst of
high change, fluidity.
Teachable, learnable moments
that often slip past us.
Get lost in excess stress or lost in a yearning for stability.
(“How can I discharge this feeling
as fast as possible?” )
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5. Core themes of Personal Leadership
Leading from the inside out
Disentangling internal experience from external circumstance
Using difference of context, people, culture, as a resource
Choosing our internal state of being
Committing to applied competence
“Leadership is, at root, about understanding and managing our own internal experience.”
Schaetti, Watanabe, Ramsey

6. Based on Two Principles: Creativity
CREATIVITY = the uprising of life energy from deep within.
When we accept ourselves as the creators of whatever it is we are experiencing, we have choice as to how to respond to it.
2 principles:
Creativity- used to be used reserved for people in creative arts/ creatives. Changed in popular culture as understand that everything we do can become a creative act.
CREATIVITY is uprising of life energy from deep within. Source of inspiration and insight. Is palpable, is kinesthetic. A physical vibration of alignment.
When we accept ourselves as the creators of whatever it is we are experiencing, we hav choice as to how to respond to it. Not a victim.
MINDFULNESS- Circulates throughout our entire body’s inner network. Intricate interplay btn thoughts, emotions, sensations, chemicals, heart rhythms. Daniel Goleman “a precise non-reactive awareness”. Purpose is to free us from powerful self-defeating emotional habits.
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7. Based on Two Principles: Mindfulness
MINDFULNESS = “a precise non-reactive awareness”(Daniel Goleman) . Purpose is to free us from powerful self-defeating emotional habits. Circulates throughout our entire body’s inner network. Intricate interplay between our thoughts, emotions, sensations, chemicals, heart rhythms.
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8. The “Critical Moment Dialogue” Is based on Six Practices
Habit = unconscious practice
Practice = conscious habit
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9. Six Practices of Personal Leadership
Aligning with
Vision
Attending to Judgement
Attending to Emotion
Engaging
Ambiguity
Cultivating
Stillness
Attending to Physical Sensation
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10. Sensory Input Practices
Refer to the way we interact with the world
Attending to Judgement
Attending to Emotion
Attending to Physical Sensation
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11. Container Practices Hold us, sustain us while we attend to judgements,
emotions, physical sensations
Aligning with
Vision
Engaging
Ambiguity
Other 3 practices are what are called “container” practices.
Why? Because they almost palpably /literally hold us, sustain us, as we attend to judgements, emotions and physical sensations.
Cultivating
Stillness
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12. Discerning Right Action What have I learned from this reflection?
The Critical Moment Dialogue
Attending to Judgement
What are my positive and negative judgments about myself, others, and the situation? What am I assuming?
Aligning with Vision
How does my experience align or not with my vision? How can I strengthen that alignment?
Engaging Ambiguity
What do I not know? What more can I not know?
Attending to Emotion
What are the positive and negative emotions I am having, and why do I care so much?
“If I don’t know what I’m doing, I can’t do something else.” Feldenkrais
Cultivating Stillness
As I take a breath, what insights come?
Attending to Physical Sensation
What are my physical sensations and what are they trying to tell me?
Discerning Right Action
What, if anything, is the right thing for me to do or say?
What have I learned from this reflection?
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13. Personal Leadership’s Process Model2
Invite Reflection
Take leadership of your
own experience.
Use the six practices of
Personal Leadership and the Critical Moment Dialogue to distentangle from your automatic reactions, to achieve a new quality of understanding, and to become skillfully self-reflexive. 1
Recognize “Something’s Up”
Be mindful.
Notice your judgments, emotions, and sensations. 3
Discern Right Action
Be creative.
What, if anything, do you need to do or say? To whom, when, how?
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14. Multinationals Practicing Personal Leadership-selected examples
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15. Why Practice Personal Leadership?
Sustain high levels of motivation and commitment, with ease
Engage challenging situations with curiosity rather than fear
Generate options for action where previously stuck
Maximize authentic behaviors that contribute to good relations

16. Not-For-Profits practicing Personal Leadership –
selected examples

17. More Reasons to Practice Personal Leadership…
Create a vibrant relationship with change
Engage full intelligence
Enable self-care and resilience
Generate internal alignment between values and behavior
Maximize agility and style flexibility

18. Educational Organisations practicing Personal Leadership - selected examples

19. Still More Reasons to Practice Personal Leadership…
Sustain continuous professional & personal development that impacts leadership of organisations
For teams, move more quickly through ‘storming’ into high ‘performing’
Share a common language for addressing complex conditions
Engage difference as a source of creative inspiration

20. Leading from the Inside Out
LDC will be holding this one-day programme:
* Thursday 4 September 2014 in Wellington.
The day-long session will be followed by two half-day Action Learning Groups (ALGs):
* Thursday 2 October
* Thursday 6 November 2014.  `*

21. Leading from the Inside Out
One Day Program + Two Learning Action Groups
PREPARE
Short Pre-Program Activity
EXPERIENCE
Immersion in One Day Workshop
APPLY & INTEGRATE
Monthly Partnered Activities between each of 2 x Learning Action Groups

22. Leading from the Inside Out
“Leadership is, at root, about managing & understanding
our own internal experience.”