COMPLETION DAY GALLERY
Comfort zone to learning zone
What Motivates human behaviour - Triune Brain
Why you should be a Global learner - webinar
The Success Spiral
Superpowers Framework
Emotional Bank Account
Session NINE - Presenting
Assignments and Resources
1. Your big assignment is creating a way to present your buddy's brilliance on behalf of the whole group. Reach out if you get stuck.
2. Your now ongoing assignment forever - NOTICE WHAT YOU NOTICE - and choose from there.. These can become habits of practice you continue to nurture. That will be easy as you acknowledge your growth and the impulse to keep pruning and growing and composting and harvesting.
3. Completion Day
You will have 5 -7 minutes to share reflections on your journey through the programme. Review your Day One outcomes (and the team harvest above) and identify your noticings and best learnings. You will also have around 5 minutes to acknowledge your buddy on behalf of the group. and speak to how you used that relationship.
Review your own notes - and practise gratitude
Stay on your own team - back yourself! Your inner coach is a HUGE resource for presenting purposes! You need never do another presentation on your own again! Keep your inner critic out of it ;)
YOU ARE THE PROJECT! Be very good to your fine self always.
Handouts and Resources
1. I Can Speak Clearly Now the pain has gone
(PDF) Highly recommended - especially Parts Two and Three
2. 8STEP Preparation plan (PDF)
NEW: Structure Guide (pdf)
3. The Bow and Arrow - short talk structure to inspire action PDF from the session)
4. This stays for every session follow up. A guided sensory check-in (lifted from The Accelerator). This can serve as an introduction to meditation (audio mp3)
Your buddy - it's all over in a month! - go for finishing well!
ONGOING: Keep spotting the brilliance and coach your buddy towards their outcomes. Revisit those at the top of the page...have we progressed?
Remember we are all here to serve each other.
Session Eight - Teams and Teamwork
Assignments and Resources
1. The Success Spiral (new video above)
2. Review the 'Team Development Strategy' and see what could use some attention. If there are multiple areas, have a chat with your team to determine priorities, and chunk down your focus points so together the team (and where appropriate, you) can decide how you want to proceed. progress in increments adds up. Overwhelm comes from trying to do too much at once.
3. Have a play with Chat GPT or Claude or another LLM (Large Language Model) and ask how it could help you. Describe your role and responsibilities and ask AI for suggestions as to how it can assist. The more you learn the basics now, the easier it will be to keep up.
AI has changed the world - we are still catching up.
Review your own notes - and practise gratitude
Stay mindful of how you show up in team settings. Having the awareness to notice the influence you have on those around you will keep you growing.
Stay on your own team - back yourself!
YOU ARE THE PROJECT! Be very good to your fine self always.
Handouts and Resources
1. Blame or Gain Cultures (separate PDF) - good to have your team discuss their perceptions and experience.
2. Handout pack (PDF from the session)
3. The Helium Pole - Facilitation guidance for team building (PDF)
4. What makes a great team...? Facilitation Guidance (PDF)
5. Blind spots Reflection (PDF)
Your buddy - This relationship has benefits!
ONGOING: Is your buddy getting what they want from the programme? Do you know how they are? You can serve as a coach and empower them, as they can with you. Practising your depth listening skills and asking good questions is the path to self awareness and growth. Bounce ideas around, test out frames and discuss your session take outs.
Remember we are all here to serve each other.
Session Seven - Emotional Intelligence
Assignments
1. Watch the EQ video above. This is a videoscribe version of the model we explored in session (lifted from The Accelerator).
2. Pause several times a day and turn your attention inwards - ask yourself “How am I feeling?” … if this is challenging, try using a frame that is a metaphor eg: ’Right now I feel like a leaf in a hurricane’ or ‘Right now I feel like I have ants in my pants/I’m fizzing like champagne!’ At the end of each day, summarise to yourself what sort of day you had on the inside. Notice. No judgements, only noticing. If you discover insights, write about/draw them.
Review your own notes - with your colours
Keep journaling, noticing, reflecting...
Remember - YOU ARE THE PROJECT! Be very good to your fine self.
Remind yourself you have the power of Reason to reframe. Reframing is a powerful composting tool. It helps find the 'silver lining' in our not so great experiences. Look for the lesson, the opportunity to grow through rather than 'go through'.
Keep an eye on the outcomes you wanted as a cohort at the beginning of this programme. Eyes on the prize!! The work we are doing is work no one else can do for us. "If it's to be - it's up to me!"
Handouts and Resources
1. Emotional Intelligence - Reflection (PDF)
2. Emotional Intelligence - Reading (new)
4. How Busy people Manage Stress (PDF)
4. A guided sensory check-in (lifted from The Accelerator). This can serve as an introduction to meditation (audio mp3
Supporting your buddy
ONGOING: Is your buddy getting what they need in order to achieve their outcomes? You can be a coach, supporter/cheerleader, accountability buddy...there are many manifestations of this relationship. The idea is you know there is ALWAYS someone on your team! (Well x2 people actually if you add me in too!)
Remember we are all here to serve each other
Session Six - Stress Management and Wellbeing
Assignments
1. Continue noticing what you notice... The more you are open to and willing to notice, the more you will see. From there we make our choices rather than reacting from conditioned responses.
2. Stop complaining...for one week...or even one day...or one hour. Noticing how much we complain can be enlightening! Focus on what is in your control and what you can influence rather than all the noise.
3. Reflect on your progress with the productivity hacks - 7-8hrs sleep, 45-50min block times through the day to progress YOUR work, Regular stretch/change of scenery breaks through the day, morning and after work routines/rituals to embed new habits, dim the lights/no screen for an hour before bedtime...
3. It's time to introduce 'Activate Your Human Superpowers - a path to your potential'. If you read a few pages nows and then you will romp through the book. Download your copy here.
Review your own notes - with your colours
Keep journaling, noticing, reflecting...
Make notes of your own stress causes, symptoms and strategies...staying mindful of these will give you more control.
Remind yourself what contributes to your wellbeing - and do more of it! Small increments add up. Your wellbeing recipe can be tailor made - by the best expert on you - YOU!
Remember - YOU ARE THE PROJECT! Be very good to your fine self.
Handouts and Resources
1. Wellbeing at Work - PDF Handout we had in session
2. The Accelerator Check it out. This is a deep dive programme of personal growth - x52 one hour sessions that will bring the superpowers work to life. One hour per week. You have free for life access and can roam around as you like inside the programme.
3. Video summary - check out the Superpowers framework overview video above.
4. Personal Action Plan (PDF)
5. Productivity Benchmarking (PDF)
6. EXTRA - How busy people manage Stress (PDF)
7. Guided sensory check in - serves as an intro to meditation (audio)
Supporting your buddy
Help your buddy stay focused on the outcomes they want from Enlightened Leadership. This relationship is one in which peer coaching is the go. How can you be of service? We are past half way now so my encouragement is to make the most of a safe pair of ears to work through challenges, bounce around ideas and generally know you have someone in your corner cheering you on!
If you can make time to get together with your buddy and work through your personal action plan together, you will gain more as you engage your 'accountability buddy'. Your word is your magic wand!
Sessions Four/Five - The Essence of Facilitation
Assignments
1. The more you are open to and willing to notice, the more you will see. From there we make our choices rather than react from conditioned responses.
2. Stay fully present and listen deeply (being open to being changed by what you hear) is the go.
3. It's time to introduce my first book "I Can Speak Clearly Now the pain has gone". If you read a few pages nows and then you will romp through the book - all of it is relevant to our mahi in EL. Download your digital copy here
Review your own notes - with your colours
Sometime in the next few days, along with Victoria's most excellent notes (thank you!), go through your own notes on all our topics and capture reflections that have had time to cook. What will you remember? How important is purpose and outcome?? How important is being fully present? How important is listening and asking good questions and creating safe spaces ? How important is framing??? You get the drift.
Making a summary of your main take outs each session is a good idea and will help the short to long term memory transfer stick.
Remember - YOU ARE THE PROJECT! Be very good to your fine self.
Handouts and Resources
1. The Essence of Facilitation - PDF
2. Summary of key messages for ongoing exploration - PDF
Supporting your buddy
Is your buddy relationship working for you both? If you can, have a check-in and take the pulse. Tell your truth about it and re-choose it for the duration. If you are unable to do that, let's talk and we will find other ways to support you. The buddy relationship brings up things but is also intended to be a safe enough space that you can be real. It is a space to practise your skills and try out different approaches.
Remember we are all here to serve each other.
Session Three - Resources and Assignments
Keep noticing what you notice
1. Remember you are practising observing when you notice. Noticing activates a superpower you have. AWARENESS. As we become more aware, more wisdom can inform our choices and decisions. That leads to better outcomes. Noticing is not about overthinking, it is simply choosing to be aware of your environment and your space in it.
NOTICE everyone does the best they can with the resources they have in any given moment. This helps ease judgements. We do not know what others carry. We will continue to gently and naturally midwife ourselves into next level capacity to be fully present in life - to show up.
2. "Ask one more question". In your day-to day interactions, deliberately ask another question for a whole day (as often as you remember). This practise opens you to enquiry rather than 'telling', listening more than talking.
Keep observing your own values in action
Notice if you are being true to your own values - as defined by YOU. As we build our leadership practice around those values, you will see results. It's your job to 'read' those results as you go through your days. Make of them what you will and notice where you want to make corrections.
Encouragement: Share your values with your buddy and give each other permission to gently hold up the mirror if you are compromising your values. This coaching could facilitate a revisit and re-choose of what your leadership values (what you believe is MOST important) are.
Keep journaling your noticings/reflections each week around your top five. Remember - YOU ARE THE PROJECT! Be very good to your fine self.
Handouts and Resources
1. The Four Questions - Facilitator Guide (downloadable pdf)
NOTE: The doc references another team activity. We will get to that.
2. Session Two digital handout supplement (PDF)
3. Leader/Manager Reflection: (PDF) Where is your focus? Check out the distinctions presented between Managers and Leaders. Intend to expand your perspective - and you will!
4. A guided sensory check-in (lifted from The Accelerator). This can serve as an introduction to meditation (audio mp3).
5. The motivators for human behaviour chat is in a video above.
Supporting your buddy
This relationship will naturally evolve and settle into how you will both roll through this programme. How you engage is up to you - and - my encouragement is to be open to what you can give to it and what is in it for you too.
Remember we are all here to serve each other and in so doing, help each other grow. The idea is you all get clear about what you want to learn more about/skills you want to build, and then you genuinely set about helping each other gain them when we are together (and any other time you give to the relationship).
Session One/Two Assignments and Resources
Reflection One - NOTICE what you notice...
NOTICE what you notice - without judgement (curiosity is more useful). Raising Awareness is simple. We bring our attention into the present moment and observe thoughts and feelings as we breathe quite consciously and deliberately. Even a short connection will grow your capacity to 'stay present' more. It is very easy to become distracted if we do not have the mental discipline to focus attention 'on demand'. We will gently and naturally midwife ourselves into next level capacity to be fully present in life - to show up.
If we try to hurry the process, we can 'blow a fuse' so please trust your process deeply. - no digging up your spuds to see how they're going. I promise you, you can afford to lean in to yourself on this.
For now, there is nothing to 'do' but notice. We will condition ourselves to a bigger 'charge' as we grow this capacity this year. The present moment is loaded with infinite possibility. It's where the ACTION is, and all the feels that go with that action! As we develop, we grow the capacity to stay present to the emotional content of life but if we opened to it all at once we would combust! Let's take good care around that. Wisdom is in knowing how to pace yourself. Our individuality is a conduit for life energy... it is brilliant!
Reflection Two - What is important (to you) in a leader?
Reflecting on what you believe is important in a Leader (your leadership values), please reflect on your share in session, review your notes and others' feedback, and observe your own actions and behaviours day-to-day. By opening yourself to rating how you go with living them for real week by week ('walking your talk'), you will tune in more and more to your own integrity, and you will notice when you stray (the choice is then yours as to what to do with that noticing).
This can be a great topic for a great peer coaching conversation. Choose a rating scale to evaluate 'walking your talk' for yourself:
Eg: % or out of 10 etc. Journal your noticings/reflections each week around your top five. Do you keep your word? Do you say what you mean and mean what you say? Nothing to 'do' but notice with genuine curiosity. Treat yourself as a topic of study from here on, and begin considering the best coach you could be - to yourself. We will explore this more...
Watch the video below - Comfort zones...
Watch the video below (again). This is the Comfort Zone one I sent you before we began in case you missed it.
Take good care of your fine self and your buddy. Small things can make a BIG difference; like sending out a loving vibe towards your cohort if the programme pops in and you notice... If we started as we mean to go on, we better all put our seat belts on!
Encouragement... Get to know your buddy...
Check in with your buddy and begin to nurture your peer coaching space. This is not a social relationship. The purpose is to help each other gain clarity as you both practise listening deeply and asking good questions. Remember this is an approach to experiment with.
This is the space to seek support in challenging moments (you do not need to suffer alone). Remember we are all here to serve each other and in so doing, we help each other grow. The idea is you all get clear about what you want to learn more about/skills you want to build, and then you set about helping each other gain them when we are together (and any other time you give the relationship).
Your first 'assignment' is to get each other very clear on what you want from the programme. Help each other write down your intentions.
CLARITY LEADS TO POWER!
Your buddy is now your accountability buddy too! There will be riches in this relationship - your job is to hunt for your treasure :) The Cosmic Lottery seldom gets things wrong.
Thought preparation for Session One
Reflection One
Consider what sort of leader brings out the best in you (and what doesn’t). Consider leaders you have experienced/been exposed to throughout your life. Notice what stands out for you and jot down your thoughts.
Highlight your top 5-7 things that bring out the best in you and bring them along.
Reflection Two
Reflecting on your early life, consider the environment you grew up in and what you learned about leadership from your ‘first leaders’ (parents/primary caregivers). The key is to observe without judgement as much as you can. We can learn from what worked, and what didn’t. Who led? How could you tell? What did you learn was important?
Watch the video above
This short video overviews my take on comfort zones and what you can expect as we learn and grow. It is lifted from my online programme called The Accelerator. You will learn about this soon - because you get free-for-life access as part of Enlightened Leadership!
Encouragement
These reflections are intended to be gentle thought experiments to start getting us in the mood for doing the work that no one else can do - to enhance our strengths and grow our skills and capabilities as leaders.
Notice your thoughts and feelings as you reflect. Notice your enthusiasm levels as you engage and observe any reluctance/resistance you have to these 'internal enquiries'. It is all grist for the mill. You may notice thoughts arising/dreams that hang around. There is nothing to 'do' but notice - even if emotions are in the mix. Be very good to yourself and genuinely curious about what shaped you.