Awareness is a key component of volunteer leadership. Barney Callaghan, a learning and development specialist, professional executive coach and Rotary International training leader, will challenge attendees to explore the nature of awareness and its importance in leadership and change management. You will discuss how leaders need a high degree of awareness to perform optimally.

1. Presenter
Barney Callaghan
Rotary Ireland
12 June 2017
Awareness – A key
component of leadership

2. 1. Explore the idea of awareness and its vital
role in leadership and in motivating people.
2. Explore the concept of Emotional
Intelligence (Goleman, 2005)
3. Explore Daniel Goleman’s contention that
“What can’t be seen is hard to change.”
Goleman, (1997)
Session Objectives

3. Barney Callaghan
Patrick Callaghan
Pádraig Ó Ceallacháin
rotary@callaghanassociates.ie
Who is this Irish guy?

4. Ireland - Rotary District 1160

5. Learning, Development
&
Executive Coaching

6. IA Training Leader 2016 & 2017

7. Explore the idea of awareness and its vital
role in leadership and in motivating people.
Session Objective 1

8. Knowledge or Perception of a Situation/Fact
Awareness

9. SYNONYMS
consciousness, recognition, realization
cognizance, perception, apprehension
understanding, grasp, appreciation
Awareness

10. Awareness

11. Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
Anthem
Leonard Cohen
(1934 - 2016)
Awareness From Imperfection

12. WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

13. What do you think?
Awareness in Leadership

14. Explore the concept of Emotional Intelligence
Goleman, (2005)
Session Objective 2

15. The ability to recognise, understand and
manage emotions in ourselves and others
consisting of:
1. Self Awareness
2. Self Management
3. Social Awareness
4. Social Skill
What is Emotional Intelligence?

16. The ability to recognise, understand and
manage emotions in ourselves and others
consisting of:
1. Self Awareness Mindfulness
2. Self Management Empowerment
3. Social Awareness Mindfulness
4. Social Skill Empowerment
What is Emotional Intelligence?

17. Explore Daniel Goleman’s contention
“What can’t be seen is hard to change.”
Goleman, (1997)
Session Objective 3

18. It is only when the mind is
open and receptive that
learning and seeing
and change can occur.
Kabat-Zinn, (1990)
An Open Mind

19. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you
know nothing.” Socrates
“In the fields of observation chance favours
only the prepared mind.” Louis Pasteur
An Open Mind

20. In order to really see what is there
we must be looking!
Looking and/or Seeing

21. What can we as leaders do with all this stuff?
We need a high level of awareness in order
to be successful in our individual and
collective leadership endeavours!
So What! You May Say!!

22. Type Capability
Linguistic Words and language
Logical-Maths Logic and numbers
Musical Music, sound, rhythm
Body-Kinaesthetic Body movement control
Spatial-Visual Images and space
Interpersonal Other people's feelings
Intrapersonal Self-awareness
Gardner, (1983)
Multiple Intelligences

23. “People who are optimistic see a failure as
due to something that can be changed so
that they can succeed the next time around”
Goleman, (1995)
Emotional Intelligence - Mindset

24. “Our national myths often exaggerate the
role of individual heroes and underestimate
the importance of collective effort.”
Putnam Robert D, (2000)
Rotary – Collective Action

25. “The proper time to
influence the
character of a child is
about a hundred
years before he is
born”.
Dean William Ralph
Inge (1860 – 1954)
Preparing for
the Future

26. “a form of wisdom...[that] demonstrates that
we understand and accept the fact that
sometimes things must unfold in their own
time.” Kabat-Zinn, (1990)
Patience – Essential to Leaders

27. “Learn to be at
ease with not
feeling at ease.”
Crane, (2009)
Deal with Not
Knowing

28. “…everything can be taken from a man but
one thing: the last of the human freedoms -
to choose ones attitude in any given set of
circumstance, to choose one’s own way.”
Frankel, (2004)
Responsive not Reactive

29. Tone of Voice
• Inflection
• Pitch
• Rate
• Volume
Body Language
• Eye Contact
• Facial Expressions
• Body Posture
• Hand Gestures
• Touching
• Physical Distance
Communication

30. Communication
“People will forget
what you said,
people will forget
what you did, but
people will never
forget how you
made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
(1928 – 2014)

31. Gentleness & Compassion

32. Mistakes… are the
portals of
discovery.
James Joyce
(1882 – 1941)
Mistakes

33. Authenticity

34. Tolerance for Ambiguity

35. “Submission to Duty
NOT
Ascent to Power”
Leadership

36. Thank You All and Bonne Chance

37. Thank you for being here today
I wish you great fulfillment in your
leadership endeavors

38. References & Reading
Aguiar Vieira, D and Palmer, S. (2012). The
Coaching Skills Self-Efficacy Scale (CSSES): A
validation study among a Portuguese sample.
The Coaching Psychologist, 8, 1, 6-11.
Crane, R. (2009). Mindfulness based cognitive
therapy. London: Routledge.
Frankel, V. F. (2004). Man’s search for
meaning. London: Rider.

39. References & Reading
Gardner, Howard. (1983). Frames of mind:
the theory of multiple intelligences. New
York: Basic Books.
Goleman, D. (1995) Emotional Intelligence.
Bantam Books, New York
Goleman, D. (1997). Vital lies, simple truths:
The psychology of self deception. London:
Bloomsbury.

40. References & Reading
Goleman, D. Destructive Emotions: A
Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama.
(2001) Bantam Books, New York
Kabat-Zinn, J. (1990). Full catastrophe living.
How to cope with stress, pain and illness
using mindfulness meditation. London:
Piatkus.
O’Donohue, J. (1997). Anam Chara: Spiritual
Wisdom from the Celtic world. London:
bantam books.

41. References & Reading
Putnam Robert, D. (2000). Bowling Alone:
The Collapse and Revival of American
Community. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Spinelli E. and Horner, C. (2007). Existential
approaches to coaching psychology, in
Palmer, S, and Whybrow, A. (2007 Eds)
Handbook of Coaching Psychology: A Guide
for Practitioners. London: Routledge.