June 15, 2009
Self Awareness and Leadership
How We Think
Through the years of my career I have worked with thousands of individuals around the world as a Corporate consultant, trainer and coach. I have utilized the tools of Humanistic Neuro-Linguistic Psychology to create change at the deep structure of my client’s personality rather than coach for accountability of my clients. The concepts presented in this article blends leadership principles together with the foundational qualities of HNLP so individuals can achieve the fulfillment in their lives, organizations and families, that they seek and deserve.
Humanistic Neuro Linguistic Psychology is literally the owners manual for your mind. Humanism is a belief that each person is infinite possibility and potential. Neuro refers to the science of how our nervous system receives millions of bits of data input from the external world and deletes, distorts and generalizes that data into our awareness consciously.
Linguistics stands for the language we utilize to symbolize our thinking patterns and experiences and how our language shapes our reality.
Psychology refers to how the data is received and meaning given to it, language wrapped around our experiences and the patterns of behaviors that develop over time becoming our unconscious strategies for our lives and relationships.
As I progressed in my career and experience, I begin to hold the principle that in order for an individual to function optimally whether they are a parent, spouse, CEO or family member we all require leadership skills. We all belong to some form of an organization and generally we all will belong to a large array of different organizational structures requiring us to participate in different roles in our family systems to our business systems.
Seventy-five members of the Stanford University School of Business Advisory Council unanimously agreed that the most essential ingredient for the development of true leadership was “SELF AWARENESS.”
Self Awareness requires self exploration whether we are a member of a fortune 500 company, building the culture of the organization or a new mom who desires only the best influence for her child. The greater self awareness the greater of a leader is born out of the quest to understand oneself.
To be continued tomorrow
Love & Light
Gary De Rodriguez