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HOW TO RECAPTURE LEADERSHIP'S LOST MOMENT
Author(s) -
Powell Lili,
Hunter Jeremy
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
leader to leader
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1531-5355
pISSN - 1087-8149
DOI - 10.1002/ltl.20519
Subject(s) - experiential learning , action (physics) , moment (physics) , meditation , psychology , odds , control (management) , social psychology , sociology , computer science , artificial intelligence , pedagogy , history , physics , logistic regression , archaeology , classical mechanics , quantum mechanics , machine learning
Abstract Defining leadership moments happen in a flash. And yet the real experiential skills that moments like these require are rarely ever systematically taught to leaders. Instead, leaders are left to learn them through trial and error, or not at all. People often use a catch‐all colloquial term, chalking up this kind of inefficient and sometimes ineffective learning to “Experience.” To recapture leadership's lost moment, leaders can learn to refocus on their immediate experience so they can lead more mindfully. Our approach emphasizes using intention, attention, and awareness to act and perform skillfully and dynamically in real time. Using diverse practices ranging from meditation, yoga, athletics, and the performing arts, leaders can learn to experience a moment in a high‐definition way that increases the potential for better choices and leadership results. Leading mindfully begins simply and profoundly. Doing the inner work of noticing reactions, you can shift into more productive stances for action. Fueled by more productive intentions, you can increase the odds of moving skillfully into more productive actions. Skillful action then becomes a basis for skillful interaction and coordinated action toward a common goal, which of course is what leadership is really all about.