When I have shared this reflection with professionals around the world, it became clear that the leaders who excel are those who embody attributes that include visionary, great communicator, respectful, patient, supportive, innovative, understanding, focused, humorous and kind. Did your reflection find some of these attributes?
It is also clear that, without increasing our self-awareness, these attributes quickly weaken in a distracted, overbooked, chaotic society. As an experiment this week, choose one of the words that arose in your reflection, and see if there is a place in your calendar to focus on bringing more of that attribute into the events of the day. For example, is there a difficult meeting where you can choose to bring a specific intention to be more understanding and open? What do you notice? What did you learn about yourself, others?