Do you feel like your business skills are stalled? Like you keep facing the same problems again and again? The demands of modern business operations can hold reflective leaders back from self-improvement. But Stanislaw Consulting’s Developing Reflective Leaders can help you break through your established patterns, and gain new insight into your approach to business.
This blog series will help you understand Stanislaw Consulting’s Developing Reflective Leaders program, who it is for, and what sets it apart from other groups you may have attended in the past. The first post, Why Peer Advisory Groups Fail Leaders explains how Developing Reflective Leaders sets itself apart from other peer advisory groups. This post helps business owners understand what reflective leaders stand to gain from the program. Future posts will discuss the program’s unique offering, helping you distinguish between this new offering and our other business coaching services.
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Every Business Leader Has Blind Spots
Every business leader has strengths and limitations – blind spots that limit the way they behave, the decisions they make, and even the questions they ask themselves. Over time, your behavior and responses to company challenges naturally fall into established patterns that you may not even be aware of. While you may pay close attention to things like your bottom line or company processes, other issues will come up again and again. That is because, for many, the emotional underpinnings to their business decisions are a blind spot they don’t even know to look for. Unexpected emotional responses can be a curb (or worse a light pole!) that throws your business development off, simply because you didn’t see it coming.
What Holds You Back from Self-Improvement
If you are facing the same challenges again and again, you may wonder why you haven’t gotten better at handling them. You are a thoughtful and insightful person, so why can’t you get your head around this issue? There may be several reasons.
Low Self-Awareness
You may have assumed that you will learn from experience. In fact, many business leaders repeat the same mistakes and continue to face the same challenges because they are unaware of their own role in creating them. Self-awareness, one of the five core aspects of emotional intelligence, can help understand why you act the way you do, and better predict how those around you will react to those behaviors. But far too many business leaders lack self-awareness. That can negatively affect decision making, collaboration, and conflict management.
Developing Reflective Leaders can help you develop your self-awareness. Facilitators David Stanislaw’s and Karen Sherwood’s psychoanalytical training gives them a unique ability to guide program participants to a deeper understanding of themselves, and their role in facing business obstacles. Taking a reflective look at your own thoughts and behaviors can uncover insights into deeper causes of the conflict and obstacles that never seem to go away, so you can make progress toward self-improvement in a new way.
Cognitive-Focused Approaches
It is also very common for business leaders to try to think their way out of problems. It makes sense, because your training likely focused on cognition-based solutions to concrete problems. You may never have considered the role emotion plays in the business decisions you make and interactions you have every day while leading your team.
Developing Reflective Leaders holds up a mirror to the often-unseen emotional motivators that drive business leaders’ choices. By focusing on how emotion affects, and often limits, cognition, you can understand why your gut instincts and quick decisions may be working against you. The program will also provide insight into how your emotional responses to interpersonal conflict may be working against your team’s collaborative goals.
Urgent Business Distractions
Reflection takes time. In today’s busy business environment, it can be hard to carve out dedicated time to consider, reflect, and respond to the bigger issues facing your company over time. When you are in the business grind every day, it can be easy to get lost in what needs to be done right now. Urgent, but comparatively unimportant issues can serve as a distraction. The daily grind may prevent you from taking a reflective look at your business, how you go to where you are, and what changes you need to make to improve your business leadership skills.
Developing Reflective Leaders combats this by giving you a set time and place to focus on the deeper issues. By setting a firm commitment to bi-weekly meetings for a minimum of six months, you can make developing new leadership skills a priority. That recurring date on your calendar is a reminder to yourself that reflection and self-improvement are important too.
Stanislaw Consulting’s Developing Reflective Leaders Program Helps Leaders Focus on Self-Improvement
Developing Reflective Leaders offers participants a back-up camera and blind-spot mirror for business skills development, helping them see things they might miss on their own. Through collaboration, facilitators David Stanislaw and Karen Shewood, help people gain useful and valuable insight into their interpersonal surroundings. This six-month, twice-monthly commitment helps you set aside the urgent distractions and prioritize reflection, allowing you to look deeper into the issues limiting your self-improvement. This new perspective can help you see where you have opportunities for growth, so you can steer your company in the right direction.
We are offering leaders a 30 min complimentary meeting to discuss and explore a current challenge. We believe this introduction will offer you a taste of the group experience. Contact us to sign up for the Developing Reflective Leaders experience today.
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