Presence - grounded. Stability comes from roots
The natural leader develops:
- Awareness
- Emotional regulation
- Clarity of intention
- Authentic presence
Leadership capabilities include:
- Calm leadership under pressure
- Thoughtful decision making
- Self-awareness
Awareness - constantly sense their environment
Natural leaders practise:
- Deep listening
- Observation
- Situational awareness
- Curiosity
Leadership capabilities include:
- Understanding team dynamics
- Seeing emerging challenges
- Responding rather than reacting
Interconnection - strengthen relationship and interdependencies
Natural leaders focus on:
- Relationships
- Collaboration
- Shared purpose
- System-wide thinking
Leadership capabilities include:
- Breaking silos
- Building trust
- Connecting teams and ideas
Adaptation - Respond, evolve and innovate
Natural leaders encourage:
- Experiment, celebrating failure as growth
- Learn from feedback
- Adjust direction
- Encourage cultures of innovation
Leadership capabilities include:
- Leading through uncertainty
- Navigating complexity
- Supporting learning cultures
Cycles - moves through cycles, rest and renewal
Natural leaders recognise and enable:
- Energy cycles
- Project life cycles
- Seasons of growth and consolidation
Leadership capabilities include:
- Avoiding burnout
- Managing change
- Sustaining long-term performance
Regenerates - leaves the system stronger
Natural leaders enables the thriving health of the system to:
- Develop people
- Strengthen teams
- Improve organisational health
- Create sustainable impact
Leadership capabilities include:
- Building leadership capacity
- Creating thriving cultures
- Long-term thinking
Ensuring health and wellbeing in living leadership
The Natural Leader Living System Method draws throughout on natural, human intelligences to ensure continued health and wellbeing of the system. It ensures that wellbeing and leadership health is built in, not bolted on.
The Natural Leader
Emotional Intelligence
Working actively and positively with emotions in self and others.
- Becoming emotionally literate across the full spectrum of human emotion and appreciating their value.
- Identifying and appreciating emotions in yourself and others with respect and value.
- Speaking to the emotional field with confidence and proficiency.
- Working with your emotions and those of others in a constructive way.
- Valuing the role that positive emotion plays in leadership performance and being committed to it.
- Vulnerability.
Relational Intelligence
Create and hold positive relationships.
- Being able to create and maintain positive relationships across your life and work.
- Taking responsibility for managing and maintaining those relationships with exceptional relationships skills.
- Being competent in leaning into challenging negative relationships constructively and increasing their strength.
- Understanding the qualities needed in relationship.
- Contributing your unique gifts, skills, and talents to work that is personally meaningful and rewarding.
Reputation Intelligence
Ensuring the collective and perceptions that others hold, align with your aspiration.
- Appreciating all those who have an interest in you, your team, organisation and purpose.
Physical Intelligence
Use your physical state, your body, breath and voice.
- The ability to remain in your best physical state, at ease and free from tension in your body, regardless of circumstance.
- Identifying when your body changes to indicate a change of state
- Being able to use your body, breath, posture, energy and voice to have the impact you seek.
- Appreciating how movement changes the chemicals in your body and knowing how to affect a physically positive state.
Environmental Intelligence
Linking your leadership to your environment and the planet.
- Understanding how your social, natural, and built environments affect your health and well-being.
- Being aware of the unstable state of the earth and the effects of your daily habits on the physical environment.
- Demonstrating commitment to a healthy planet.
Intellectual Intelligence
Thinking freely, creatively and without inhibition or habit.
- Ensuring that you can access and maintain an intellectual state to best serve you.
- Ensuring it is not a reactive or habitual state but one of choice and design that is relevant to you.
- Being empowered and at choice.
- Understanding thinking habits that may hold you back, belief systems that may be 'historic' or state.
- Be consistently curious about yourself and others.
- Holding confidence and self belief in your unique self and your ability to respond positively to changes and challenges.
Communication Intelligence
Expanding your full range and register of personal communication skills to connect with others.
- Designing personal impact and influence.
- Adapting vocal range, tone and articulation.
- Authoring a clear and compelling narrative.
- Effective use of pause.
- Using emotion to engage.
- Managing 'state' through breath, energy and pace.
- Highly effective listening.
Social Intelligence
Building and maintaining connections across your community.
- Building and maintaining a series of connections across the organisation, business.
- Being care-ful.
- Healthy relationships, enjoying being with others, developing friendships and intimate relations, caring about others.
- Ego-less in service of making space for others and letting others care about you.
- Contributing to your community.