Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes
In two of my previous articles, I looked at an explanation of why people behave the way they do and why it’s important for leaders to monitor their own behavior. In this article, I’d like to explore why this is all so important for leaders to understand as they are working with others.
To quickly review: as we experience various “events” we filter what we experience through the rocks that we carry around with us (our values, assumptions, beliefs, and expectations). This filter allows us to add our perception and judgement to what we’ve observed, leading [...]
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes
In my last article, I started to look at why folks behave the way they do. Very simply put, every event that we experience is filtered through the rocks that we carry around with us (our values, assumptions, beliefs, and expectations).
After adding our perception and judgment to what we’ve observed, we make a conclusion that is again filtered by our current emotions and feelings and then we react. Most times we go through this process in milliseconds, so that it seems that we have an “immediate” reaction.
Reflection Leadership, and in particular Self Reflection, allows [...]
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For reflective leaders, trying to understand others can sometimes be difficult. Even when we take the time to reflect on the actions of others, sometimes we just can’t figure out why some folks react one way and other folks react in a completely opposite manner. In this article I’ll start to explore what makes us behave the way we do
There are many theories and models from the fields of Psychology and Social Psychology that describe the interactions between individuals and since it’s been over 25 years since I took a Psychology course, I’m not even [...]
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I’ve been following Dr. Bret Simmons’ recent posts on Leadership Development. In a comment left on this post, Mary Jo Asmus describes how she tries to incorporate reflection when working with her coaching clients.
This all started me thinking about my own approach to leadership development and how reflection is at the heart of it.
Leadership Can Be Learned
While I believe that leadership can be taught, it can only be taught to those who want to learn. So really, I should say that I believe that leadership can be learned. That’s where leadership development has to start, [...]
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As leaders, our most fundamental role is to encourage others to follow. While we can sometimes get this to happen in spite of ourselves, as effective leaders we know that it’s vitally important that we understand those around us by practicing what I call Follower Reflection.
When we are able to take the time to stop, listen and learn more about the people we work with, we have the opportunity to understand what motivates them and discover how we can help them to achieve their goals.
Being able to understand others doesn’t come quickly or easily. To [...]
