The Elements of Personal Leadership: A Whole Self Approach

When we hear the word “leadership” we generally think about it in relation to others, but what about leading ourselves? By developing personal leadership we learn to do for ourselves first exactly what good leaders aim to do for others: working towards a goal, creating a culture of kind encouragement, developing people to be their best, and ensuring that the whole team is all pulling in the same direction.

While it might seem odd to think of yourself as a team — just consider how conflicted you actually are, and how many little versions of yourself you encounter everyday. Do you want to stay in bed or go to the gym? What happens when you are tempted to do the easy thing instead of the right thing? And how do you even know what the right thing is? How do we get all these parts of you on board?

Getting where you want to go in life and taking others along with you isn’t just down to knowing the direction of travel. It takes a whole variety of skills that are psychological, emotional, and social in nature, not just technical know-how.

Why The Soft Skills Aren’t So Soft:

Did you know that the correlation between IQ and career performance is only between 4% and 10%? That means that the rest has to be comprised of other things — these things are usually…