Leadership Development

Google recently demonstrated that its best employees were not Ivy League students but rather young people who had experienced a big loss in their lives and had been able to transform that experience into growth. According to Google, deep personal loss has resulted in employees who are more humble and open to listening and learning.
- Exponential Organizations by Salim Ismail

Leadership Development is about having an integrated approach to support your people to be on their journey of growth, evolution and transformation; instead of disconnected efforts to create the shine on the outside. The shine outside is always an outcome of inner growth. An organization will grow, evolve and transform from good to great when each person in the organization is on their own personal journey from good to great. That means supporting them to grow not only 

i. Intellectually Intelligent
a. Ability to focus and concentrate
b. Have Agility of Mind to be able to understand and appreciate a 360 degree view of a situation
c. Willingness to learn, unlearn and re-learn for mastery of one's craft
d. Being able to integrate knowledge from diverse fields to create innovative solutions for problems
e. Ability to listen with a still mind to absorb fully

but also
ii. Physically Intelligent
a. Ability to maintain perfect health and well-being of the only house one has this lifetime to live in
b. Eating consciously and responsibly
c. Exercising for maintaining flexibility, strength and energy till the end of one's life
d. Being able to give up whatever is detrimental for the health and well-being of the physical body
e. Being able to take on whatever creates health and well-being of the physical body

iii. Emotionally Intelligent
a. Ability to have awareness of one's entire range of emotions, process them on the inside rather than vomit them on self or others
b. To be in a state of joyous equanimity in the face of the inevitable ups and downs
c. To be able to Communicate While Being in the World of Others 
d. Living from one's Values, Personal Inner Commitment and Powerful Intentions; rather than being taken over by Life
e. Living with Integrity by honouring one's words to oneself and to others

iv. Spiritually Intelligent
a. Ability to experience compassionate love for oneself and for all beings
b. Ability to grow through Insights, rather than wait for growth to happen through Pain
c. Living by design from one's Purpose; rather than for external applause, appreciation, acknowledgement, approval or reward
d. Child-like trust and faith in the Universe through a restful, tranquil, abundant experience of being taken care of; rather than the experience of having to protect oneself from a hostile world
e. Living from the consciousness of Being of Service; rather than from the consciousness of Survival

Growth across all the four bodies of the Being unleashes creativity, innovation, productivity, performance and effectiveness. Therefore, it is in the interest of the Business to support authentic Leadership Development for their people. 

Love, Jyoti.