7 levels of leadership consciousness: rate yourself and your organisation

Richard Barrett’s model

We are all leaders albeit of ourselves, a team or a company. To develop yourself, you need to understand where you and your organisation are now in the range from Crisis Manager to Visionary. 

Home: do we value what it gives us?

I could not imagine what it is like to not have a home and a clean, warm bed to sleep in at night. Yet people sleep rough on our city streets every night, some by choice others by necessity. Yet it is not without its dangers. I remember how upset my daughter was when their friendly local tramp in her university city died of hypothermia one winter. 

Are you operating in survival or growth mode?

A sense of well-being is aided by knowing and understanding yourself.  This includes understanding your psychological needs, how they might fluctuate over time and how they map to your values and behaviours.  It is a big subject but I believe understanding why you feel as you do is a good tool for managing yourself.  So her goes….

Hope: how to find the next step of belief

Hope is the thing with feathers

Hope is the thing with feathers  
That perches in the soul,  
And sings the tune without the words,  
And never stops at all,  
   
And sweetest in the gale is heard;          
And sore must be the storm  
That could abash the little bird  
That kept so many warm.  
   
I’ve heard it in the chillest land,  
And on the strangest sea;         
Yet, never, in extremity,  
It asked a crumb of me.

Emily Dickinson1830 – 1886