Inner leadership
Your inner leadership is like your inner compass. When set up correctly, it will guide you in the right direction. The more you listen to and understand yourself, the more finely calibrated your inner compass will be and the better your outer leadership will be.
By questioning your assumptions, you can actively control your thoughts, emotions and behaviors in a conscious and desired way. When you stand firm and are confident in yourself and your choices, it rubs off on people around you. Your surroundings become safe when you are safe. It is also easier for you to take in other people's opinions in a constructive way when you are confident.
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Personal development
A prerequisite for good leadership is to actively work with one's personal development. Personal development goes hand in hand with your inner leadership. It's about becoming more aware of yourself and your behaviors, strategies and characteristics. To actively choose the direction in which you want to develop and to acquire tools to make the changes you want to make.
An important part of personal development is embracing all parts of yourself, even the ones you don't like. When you get to the point where you have empathy for yourself and your shortcomings as well as insight into your values and who you want to be, you can develop strong inner leadership.
How do you steer yourself forward?
What is your driving force going forward? The answer to that question probably determines how much enjoyment, creativity and satisfaction you feel in life and everyday life.
Is your inner critic telling you to do better, that you're never good enough? When you've passed a challenge, do you put a tick in the book and run for the next ball? Do you have the attitude that you can always do more and that there is no point in celebrating because you are not done? You know what - you'll never be done. With that kind of inner leadership, there will never be room to celebrate, or to rest. In the long run, you drain yourself, become unmotivated and hinder your creativity. There is no room to be creative and think freely when you are only focused on the next goal. Maybe you land with a feeling of "now what?"
If instead you lead yourself from a place of desire, inner longing and a conviction that you have something to contribute, you are in touch with your inner values, with trust and creativity. It gives you energy and joy and every challenge you complete will feel like a win and something to celebrate. You will probably enjoy yourself much more along the way and spread a better energy outwards.
How is your outer leadership influenced by your inner one?
The people you rely on to achieve your goals will need to perform in the same way that you push yourself to perform. If you beat yourself up for your mistakes, you will also beat others up for their mistakes. Good internal leadership therefore automatically leads to better external leadership and better relationships. When you have patience and understanding for yourself, you also have it for others. With a strong inner leadership and a stable foundation to stand on, you become better at handling your own and other people's fears, stress and irritations.
The energy you have inside you will reflect outward, whether you want to or not. To be a good external leader, you need to have strong internal leadership where you know your values and what guides your behaviour. What makes you feel good? With that knowledge about yourself, how can you make others around you feel good?
To lead others
Self-awareness is part of the concept of self-knowledge and is an important part of inner and outer leadership. When you have insight into the influence you have on others and how your behavior affects people around you, you will also have an easier time understanding why people behave the way they do and react in different situations.
Having insight into one's strengths and limitations and taking responsibility for one's mistakes is at least as important on an internal as an external level. It makes both you and the organization you work in efficient. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses makes you trustworthy and reliable. An open culture where one does not hide one's weaknesses opens up for continuous learning. In private life and at work. Both internal and external leadership is about having an understanding of the current situation, having a vision of the desired situation and knowing what you and your group can do to get there as well as how you can behave and lead to get you and you to the goal.
Getting to know yourself
Vitaliseras courses in deepened self-awareness and inner leadership give you the opportunity to look more deeply at all aspects of yourself. During just over a week, you get to expose and feel emotions, values, behaviours, strategies and needs. Who are you and who do you want to be? What do you need to develop? When you get to know yourself better and find your truth, you become a better leader, both for yourself and for others. Come and vitaliseras on our courses!
