The seven steps to inspired leadership

Author: Dennis Roberts on Print 
1. Listen more – rather than thinking what you are going to say next, even amidst someone else speaking with you, learn to still your mind and be attentive. A conversation is a dialogue, not duelling monologues.

2. Leave the problem unresolved – resist the temptation to fix it, solve it or save it. In holding a problem unresolved in consciousness, or even in discussion, you allow for unspoken possibilities and creative solutions to emerge. Increasingly we need to think outside the square and this is one way to do exactly that.

3. Still your mind – an extension of the first point but here there is no communication with the outside world or another party. Here the intention is to connect with your own inner voice. The quiet musings of your own heart is the gateway to your intuition and it in turn is the gateway to universal consciousness. Genius resides here. Tune into it.

4. Follow your intuition – having stilled your mind and found your pathway to intuition the next step is to act upon it. When heart guides ego you have inspired action. A great place from which to function.

5. Seek out diversity – the key to celebrating diversity is to embrace all of our differences and not merely tolerate them. Beyond our differences are our commonalities. We are all one. Diversity is to be celebrated.

6. Stop before you start – if you want to create change then first create a vacuum. In your busy day the place to start is to stop. Clear some space in your diary so that you can allow things in. The demand to "do more with less" is omnipresent. This is about working smarter not harder.

7. Letting go – when you accept your current reality (it is after all your creation) it will allow the space for what you truly desire to be manifest. This is not about making things happen, just doing it, taking massive action or setting big hairy goals – that was so 1990s. Surrender is not passive. You are, in effect surrendering to yourself. And acknowledge and accept that you create your current reality and you embrace it. That is the surrender bit!

Dennis Roberts helps small business owner/operators start, run and grow their business from conception to exit. He is available for strategic advice, business planning, one-on-one coaching/mentoring, advisory board, interim management and facilitation. Visit www.DennisRoberts.com.au.

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