This document summarizes a workshop on developing authentic leadership through building self-awareness and focus. The workshop covered how emotional intelligence and abilities like achievement drive are important for leaders. It encouraged participants to identify their strengths and challenges, as well as enablers and team to support their leadership development. Practices like journaling, mindful listening, and centering were presented as ways to develop self-awareness. Building these practices into organizations was discussed as a way to improve employee well-being, productivity, and retention.

1. 20th July 2018
Mumbai
DEVELOPING AUTHENTIC
LEADERSHIP
HOW TO BUILD SELF-AWARENESS & FOCUS
An SME Council Initiative

2. THANKS FOR
YOUR
PARTICIPATION
!

3. LET’S KEEP IN TOUCH
BENJAMIN LANE ANSHUL KAMATH
9833980951
benjamin@shortlist.net
9820409188
anshul@greattoawesome.com

4. KEY
TAKEAWAYS

5. LEADERSHIP BEGINS WITH SELF-AWARENESS

6. Our mind is a muscle...
We must keep exercising it

7. NASSCOM - IIMB RESEARCH
Emotional intelligence is central for leaders of the future

8. ABILITIES DEMONSTRATED BY HIGHEST
PERFORMING TECH ENGINEERS
● Achievement drive & standards
● Influence
● Conceptual thinking
● Analytical ability
● Initiative
● Self-confidence
*Daniel Goleman, Lecture “Social Intelligence:
The New Science of Human Relationship”
EQ
4/6
IQ
2/6

9. Bain and Company
“Inspirational Leadership”
ANY 4 STRENGTHS CAN MAKE YOU
EXCEPTIONAL
Likelihood to inspire others

11. YOUR
LEADERSHIP
CANVAS

12. IDENTIFY YOUR
QUALITIES
What are qualities?
◉ Traits or behavioral habits
◉ Skills or physical and mental abilities
◉ Values or what is important to you
◉ 3 of these should represent your core strengths today, and areas you want to
really focus on
◉ 1 of these can represent an area that is not currently a strength, but is something
that you want to work on

13. ◉ Why are these qualities important for you?
◉ What impact would they make?
◉ How do they make you feel?
◉ What type of person would you become?
CONNECT WITH THE WHY

14. IDENTIFY YOUR
CHALLENGES
◉ Who and what will stop you from making it happen?
◉ External constraints - things out of your control
◉ Internal constraints - your skills, time, habits
◉ Limiting beliefs - your narratives, fears, insecurities

15. ◉ Who and what will help you make it happen?
◉ Your mentors
◉ Your practices and habits **pick one practice from today**
◉ Your mindsets and beliefs
IDENTIFY YOUR
ENABLERS

16. ◉ Think of 5-10 people (the more the merrier) could ask for feedback on your qualities
◉ Pick a variety of people inside and outside work to help you develop a broader and
richer understanding of your qualities
IDENTIFY YOUR
TEAM

17. PLAN IT ALL OUT
◉ For each quality - write down what you will do to work on this area next week
◉ Any change starts with small and imperfect steps
◉ For each quality - write down how you will continue to build this ares over the coming
months
◉ Only practice (and more practice) makes permanent

18. ◉ What is your accountability commitment?
◉ When will you check-in to review progress (add this to your calendar now)?
◉ Who can be your accountability partner(s)?
◉ Make it public, pin-up and share your leadership canvas?
BUILD ACCOUNTABILITY

19. ENABLING
PRACTICES

20. THE PRACTICES
Priming
Journalling
Mindful Listening
Centering

21. JOURNALING
Benefits:
◉ Laid-off professionals journaling
for five days found new jobs at a
much higher rate ‑ 68% vs. 27%.
(Buhrfeind & Pennebaker, 1994)
◉ Two minutes journaling on two
consecutive days - improved mood
and wellbeing.
(University of Missouri, 2009)
Applications:
◉ When lots on, step-back and get a
“view from the balcony”
◉ Facing a problem or disagreement,
understand others perspectives
◉ When a salient emotion occurs,
better understand yourself
◉ Begin each day by tapping core
values
◉ Or just use as “brain dump” and
clarifier

22. MINDFUL LISTENING
Benefits:
◉ Builds trust and comfort
◉ Builds deeper connections with
people around you
◉ Deeper understand your clients
and their needs
◉ Moves beyond words to decode
body language, tone and more
Applications:
◉ Understanding a client’s needs
◉ Employee appraisals and feedback
◉ Helping resolve conflicts
◉ Any situation where you want truly
connect
◉ Simply as a gift

23. CENTERING
◉ Provides the space in which we choose how to respond,
rather than automatically reacting to a situation
◉ In this space we find the time and awareness to bring
our inspirational leadership skills to bear

24. STEPS TO CENTER

25. (OTHER) STEPS TO CENTER
◉ Breathing deeply
◉ Naming a feeling
◉ Asking yourself: “What’s the worst that could happen?”
◉ Getting up from your computer and stretching your legs

26. THE SCIENCE
Strong positive
correlation
between a leader’s
mindfulness and
employee
well-being
Higher performance
ratings, fewer instances
of negative behaviors,
lower emotional
exhaustion and higher
satisfaction with
work-life balance
“Centeredness is the key
to replacing automatic
reactions with
thoughtful, strategic and
authentic responses”
Bain and Company Lee Kong Chian School of Business and
NUS Business School
London Imperial College

27. BUILDING THE PRACTICES
INTO YOUR COMPANY
◉ Hiring - assessing potential colleagues for EQ
◉ Training - everything from better collaboration to stress management
◉ Evaluation - strengths based flexible roles
◉ Team & meetings norms - moments of mindfulness
◉ Company “innerwork” days - dedicated time for personal reflection
Underpinned by:
◉ Company values - more than just “words on the wall”
◉ Champions at the top - actions speak louder than words

28. 36% 62
minutes
BUILDING CENTEREDNESS:
ORGANISATION WIDE BENEFITS
reduction in stress levels increase in productivity
each week
$ 3000
cost saving per employee
per year

29. FOCUSING ON STRENGTHS:
ORGANISATION WIDE BENEFITS
People who use their strengths every day are:
Excellent quality of life: 3x more likely
Engaged at work: 6xmore likely
Productivity: 8% more productive
Retention: 15%less likely to quit their jobs.

30. ABOUT US

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