Do You Lead With Heart?
A shift is happening in the land of dog eat dog and lord of the flies.
Perhaps triggered by Covid, where we were all forced to confront ourselves in a way like never before. The time alone allowed for reflection and people started asking the question.
WHAT DO I REALLY WANT?
As a personal transformation coach what keeps coming up over and over with my clients, is the desire for real connection and purpose. No longer is just going to work and getting paid well, enough. We want to love what we do and enjoy the connections that foster that.
Don’t take my word for it, according to the longest-running research conducted by Harvard University the happiest or most content people have purpose and real work life connections.
“Leading with your heart” is a phrase that refers to leading with empathy, compassion, and emotional intelligence. It’s about creating honest, open, and real connections with others – then staying connected, so those relationships can deepen. It can be a fulfilling way to lead as you're not just filling your bank account, you're able to affect change in people's lives and your own.
That’s all well and good, but can a business successfully run with this ethos, and can leaders succeed?
The answer is yes and yes.
The Heart Math Institute (HMI) researches heart-brain communication and its relationship to managing stress, increasing coherence, and deepening our connection to self and others. HMI’s scientists also explore the electrophysiology of intuition and how all things are interconnected.
According to research done by HMI the heart's magnetic field radiates outside the body and can affect other people.
Given that this research goes on to elaborate on how our intuition and feeling are first felt in the heart space, not the mind. Before you’ve opened your mouth to a colleague, chances are their heart has already felt your energy and intentions.
This may sound hippy dippy, but science is verifying things the hippies knew all along.
So, while we're on roll let's step it up a little, shall we?
According to research conducted by Princeton Universities Global Consciousness Movement that’s been running for more than 30 years.
When human consciousness becomes coherent, the behavior of random number systems around the globe changes strategically. Random number generators (RNGs) based on quantum tunneling produce completely unpredictable sequences of zeroes and ones.
Stay with me here!
But when a great event synchronizes millions of people's feelings, the Random Number Generators network becomes subtly structured. They calculate one in a trillion odds that the effect is due to chance.
The evidence suggests an emerging collective consciousness. Or the unifying field of consciousness described by sages in all cultures.
What does it all mean? And how does it relate to business and leadership you ask?
Your business has an energetic ecosystem that emerges from heart consciousness that can affect its success or demise.
What it means is that for employee retention, job satisfaction, and the overall synergy of an organization, WE NEED TO LEAD WITH HEART.
5 Steps To Leading with Heart.
Compassionate Communication- Whether you’re listening to a proposal that sucks or terminating a contract. The space for compassionate communication is always available to us. Let down the walls and speak compassionately as humans.
Open Communication-An open-door policy where you are approachable and open to feedback and feedforward. Creating a safe space for communication and not a culture of knowing your place.
Compassionate Curiosity/Inquiry- The ability to ask questions that come from a space of real curiosity and not from a place of wanting to dismiss or have a showdown. Which happens a lot in meetings.
Feedback-Feedforward Culture- There is no such thing as failure only feedback or feedforward. Creating a community that is committed to learning from past choices that did not have a positive outcome. A company and a team committed to nurturing personal, professional, and team growth.
Seeing the Human Not the Title- We are not our titles or our jobs. Were human beings. We spend 8 to 12 hours a day working with each other in one way or another. You should know the human beings you work with. Who are they? What do they do outside of work? Do they have families? Human nature dictates employees won’t care about letting down the company but will care about the colleagues/ humans they are connected with.
Maybe it’s the early days of this new way of doing business with each other. But change IS coming you either catch the wave and ride it or drown and become a relic.
