Will Leadership Depth (after attaining it) lead us to excel in Craft Mastery and Business Excellence?
 
Angelene, Great Question 💜
 
Leadership Depth, Craft Mastery and Business Excellence are Growth Levers of the evolutionary, transformative Good to Great journey.
 
Our work is about realizing our highest potential to have it all by creating massive positive impact through our work by strengthening our Leadership Depth, growing in Craft Mastery and amplifying Business Excellence.
 
There’s nothing to attain or achieve because we are on an endless Good to Great journey, with every tiny step forward in the right direction giving us the joyous fulfilment of growth.
 
The three growth levers are inter-linked, each contributing to the other two.
 
Leadership Depth is the foundation of the house, Craft Mastery is the walls of the house and Business Excellence is the roof of the house.
 
Gear 1 (Agility of Mind) in Leadership Depth supports us to grow to Stage 1 (Amateur) of Craft Mastery, enabling us to reach Mountain 1 (Mountain of Purpose) of Business Excellence.
 
We are now ready for the 2nd Spiral upwards: We strengthen ourselves in Leadership Depth to raise our consciousness to Gear 2 (Being of Service), which supports us to grow to Stage 2 (Professional) of Craft Mastery, enabling us to reach Mountain 2 (Mountain of Value) of Business Excellence.
 
We are now ready for the 3rd Spiral upwards: We strengthen ourselves in Leadership Depth to raise our consciousness to Gear 3 (Communicating Powerfully in the World of Others), which supports us to grow to Stage 3 (Expert) of Craft Mastery, enabling us to reach Mountain 3 (Mountain of Growth) of Business Excellence.
 
We are now ready for the 4th spiral upwards: We strengthen ourselves in Leadership Depth to raise our consciousness to Gear 4 (Delivering on our Word), which supports us to grow to Stage 4 (Mentor) of Craft Mastery, enabling us to reach Mountain 4 (Mountain of Scale) of Business Excellence.
 
We are now ready for the 5th spiral upwards: We strengthen ourselves in Leadership Depth to raise our consciousness to Gear 5 (Excellence), which supports us to grow to Stage 5 (Master) of Craft Mastery, enabling us to reach Mountain 5 (Mountain of Mastery) of Business Excellence.
 
So the answer to your question is – Yes, strengthening Leadership Depth supports us to grow in Craft Mastery and amplify Business excellence. But, before we can continue growing in Leadership Depth, we need to make an effort to grow in Craft Mastery and Business Excellence to step up to the next Gear of Leadership Depth.
 
Keep learning, growing and contributing to joyously lead yourself and your business from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way.
 
Loving you,
j.

​Integrity is about honouring our word which means - doing what I said I would do, by the time I said I would, in the way I meant to and if I miss to, I will restore my word.

Integrity is a Gear 4 spiritual value. We can only make a promise in Gear 4 and restore our word in Gear 4.

If we feel mad / bad / sad on breaking our word or when restoring it, we are in Gear 0. Therefore, it is important to consciously step up to Gear 4 to make a promise and consciously step up to Gear 4 to restore a promise and consciously step up to Gear 4 to release ourselves of a promise.

Gear 0 Default Consciousness sourced in Fear - I am feeling mad / bad / sad - low emotional state
Gear 1 Consciousness - I am extraordinary. I love myself.
Gear 2 Consciousness - You are extraordinary. I love you.
Gear 3 Consciousness - I trust the Universe. I trust the process of Life. I am a channel of impact. I am making a difference.
Gear 4 Consciousness - I am whole, complete and perfect. You are whole, complete and perfect. Life is whole, complete and perfect. I believe in myself. I believe in you.

Our resident Gear may be 1 but we can always consciously step up to Gear 4 in the moment to make a promise, restore a promise and release ourselves from a promise.

If it is difficult to step up to Gear 4 in the moment, then do your RYD Growth Habits to step up and then restore your word to give you power. Otherwise, restoring your word would take away your power.

When we break our word, no apologies are required. All that is required is restoring our word from Gear 4.

The question then could be, why is restoring our word a Gear 1 Habit?

It is a Gear 1 Habit to give us a gym to practise Agility of Mind to practise consciously stepping up to Gear 4 to make a promise, restore our promise or release ourselves from our promise.

What happens if we make a promise from Gear 0? - Then, our promise may harm us.

What happens if we make a promise from Gear 1? - Then, our promise may harm others and in turn, harm our own self, as it's in giving that we receive.

What happens if make a promise from Gear 2? - Then, the burden of honouring our promise is on us. We have not made the Universe our partner in honouring our word. It would be exhausting to honour our word. It's in a dance between me and the Universe that there is ease and grace. If I have to fulfil all my intentions only by myself, then that would be burdensome and back-breaking.

What happens if we make a promise from Gear 3? - We miss to get willing partnership from others to support us to fulfil our promise. A promise is nothing but an intention. We cannot fulfil any intention on our own. It is only in a joyous partnership with the Universe and others around us can our intention and our promises be fulfilled with ease and grace.

A question could be - How can I relate to people as extraordinary as I only have negative people around me? Well, our job is to focus on the tiny speck of goodness in them or move away from them till we have the strength to focus on the tiny speck of goodness in them and respond to that with positive energy. 

There are no straight, factory-fitted answers to every situation. Best would be to explore with your coach in your weekly deep-dive immersion to discover your Truth and the way forward on your Good to Great journey.

Keep playing to joyously lead yourself and your business from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way 💜

Loving you,
j.

 
I met my Enneagram mentor, Clarence Thomson, after 1.5 years. He is still young and handsome at 88 years. I reached out to him because I am now ready to integrate Enneagram with RYD. I had reached Stage 2 (Active Learning) of Craft Mastery in Enneagram before I took a break from it as I got busy with learning Psychodrama and Yoga where I am currently at Stage 3 of Craft Mastery (Apprenticeship with a Master of the Craft to become an Expert).

In Stage 4 of Craft Mastery, we become a Mentor by learning through teaching and coaching Experts on our craft.

In Stage 5 of Craft Mastery, we become a Master of our Craft by learning through teaching and coaching Mentors of our craft.

Only at Stage 3 of Craft Mastery of a particular modality / field can I begin the work of integrating that modality with RYD. The first stage of integration is when I can offer that learning to contribute to my coachees. The next stage of integration with RYD is when I coach the RYD Coaches on that modality and they reach the level of expertise to contribute to their coachees through that modality, which is when that modality becomes available to the entire RYD Circle of Love.

Psychodrama and Scaling-up have got integrated with Centre for Coaching Excellence (CCE), the school for RYD Coaches. In the next one year, Yoga of the Krishnamacharya tradition will get integrated with CCE. Psychodrama becomes relevant for a coachee when they climb to Gear 2 consciousness of their Leadership Depth Journey. Scaling-up as a framework becomes relevant when our coachee's business has reached Mountain 3 on their Business Excellence journey. Yoga is an RYD Transformative Practise in Gear 3 of the Leadership Depth journey.

Each modality is interesting and provides massive growth but when you integrate Coaching, Growth Habits, Community, Enneagram, Psychodrama, Yoga, Aana Pana, Vipassana; the inner journey from good to great (Leadership Depth) gets accelerated with greater ease and grace as there's simultaneous growth across all our 5 bodies - physical, energy, emotional, mental and spiritual - one Gear at a time.

Similarly in Business Excellence, there are different frameworks. But, magic happens when we integrate different frameworks because a beautiful Simplicity of a Whole emerges which is more powerful and effective than the individual frameworks.

Back to Enneagram - What is it?

To grow as a leader requires us to be deeply self-aware and have a structure to keep seeing one's own blind spots. Growth can come no other way. Strengthening our Leadership Depth is a result of ongoingly deepening our self-awareness and uncovering our Blind Spots.

Understanding our Enneagram (pronounced as ANY-a-gram) Style helps us to catch our default limiting habits and responses, which have made us captive to our worldview. It is like literally being caught up in a box. Both professional and personal growth requires us to break free from this box.

The Enneagram is a study of the 9 basic types of people and explains why we behave the way we do and points to specific directions for individual growth. It is an important tool to understand ourselves and people around us better; which is our pathway to greater business success, happy healthy kids, and loving harmonious positive uplifting relationships at work and at home.

​Clarence is Enneagram Style 7, which is my Style as well. So, his idea of teaching is rather different. My first homework is to watch the Disney movie - Alladin, because both Alladin and the Genie are Style 7. This is going to be one fun learning expedition. Through the process of learning, I am looking forward to recovering the fun part of me, which got lost along the way.

Enneagram has roots in Sufism.

Research in the American Journal of Psychiatry describes the Enneagram as a personality theory that characterizes nine distinct strategies by which the human psyche develops a worldview, and relates to the self and others. The theory proposes that by adulthood, individuals have developed a predominant personality strategy to cope with the external environment. Each of the nine core types described by the Enneagram has an associated basic fear, basic desire, and predictable pattern of behaviour in times of stress and security. The Enneagram uses these basic fears and desires to describe the essential motivations underlying much of the resulting behaviour. It thus captures a range of behaviour for each type and is capable of providing a great deal of insight into an individual's underlying psychology for greater awareness and growth. 

Enneagram is focused on internal motivations rather than external behaviours. It helps us uncover our blind spots, our behavioural patterns that everyone else can see except our own self, and provide a pathway to break those patterns. 

Personality is not something we have to accept as something fixed in us. It is a box that we have trapped ourselves in to protect ourselves. We built this box to protect ourselves in response to hurts in our growing years. Our personality is our self-defense mechanism that we have strengthened over the years to protect ourselves from our fears. 

In our RYD Language:
Hole-in-the-Soul in the spiritual body leads to small mind in the Mental Body, which leads to limiting roles in the Emotional Body, which leads to low energy in the Energy Body; which leads to a certain Personality expressed through the Physical Body. 

The below is the limiting expression of my Default Survival Consciousness sourced in Fear. 

Our Whole Soul sourced in Love, the highest Spiritual Value, leads to limitless thoughts in our Mental Body (Big Mind), which leads to Peaceful Warrior roles in our Emotional Body. The Peaceful Warrior roles generate high uplifting, positive, creative energy in our Energy Body supporting us to live our Growth Habits through our Physical Body with joyous ease and grace. 

Simultaneously working to transform all our 5 bodies supports us to move forward on our journey of good to great with greater ease, grace and velocity. 

Greater understanding and awareness of our coachee through different lens would help us build a personalised journey for each one of our coachees to inculcate RYD Growth Habits and Rhythms from the entire RYD Habits Toolkit in a way that would most contribute to them.

In July 2024, Clarence will help each one in RYD Circle of Love to understand their Enneagram Style to have a deeper understanding about themselves. That would support our community's collective consciousness to grow and expand. Here are 2 easy-to-read books recommended by Clarence to wrap your head around Enneagram:

The Enneagram Made Easy: Discover the 9 Types of People
and
Are You My Type, Am I Yours? - Relationships Made Easy Through the Enneagram

Both books are by Reene Baron and Elizabeth Wagle

Here's an article that takes you one step deeper into what is Enneagram and the 9 different Styles - Understanding the Enneagram

Let's keep learning, uncovering and discovering to be more self-aware supporting us to raise our consciousness to joyously lead ourselves and our businesses from good to great, realize our dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way 💜

Loving you,
​j.

​Pratik, Thank you for your One Question:
How can we stay more in the moment to be aware of our thoughts, feelings, etc which can allow us to operate from a higher gear?

Before we can play any sport well, 3 things are required to be brought together:
1) Learning the right technique of playing the sport from a coach
2) Practising the right technique on the training ground
3) Playing on the playground which tells us how much we have progressed in learning the technique as measured by the ease and grace of our play and number of wins

Consciousness is defined as Awareness of our thoughts in our mental body, feelings in our emotional body, sensations in our physical body, quality of energy in our energy body and love or fear in our spiritual body.

When I put my hand in the fire, if I have no sensation of my hand burning, I will not pull away my hand and my hand will keep burning. It's only because I have awareness of the sensation of burning that I respond by pulling away my hand from the fire.

If we have awareness of our thoughts, feelings, sensations, energy level and being (love or fear), we will never think thoughts, speak words and take actions that harm us or harm other people. When we harm other people, we are harming our own self because it's in giving that we receive. If we have awareness of our thoughts, feelings, sensations, energy level and being (love or fear), we would think thoughts, speak words and take actions that massively contribute to our own self and massively contribute to all beings in our space.

Therefore, Leadership Development is about raising our Human Consciousness. A great leader has a much higher Consciousness than a good leader. A good leader has a much higher consciousness than a bad leader. That is why Bapu Gandhi was a great leader and Hitler was a bad leader.

The RYD Growth Lever - Leadership Depth - is about raising our consciousness from the darkness of unconsciousness in Gear 0 to our Inner Light of full consciousness in Gear 5. RYD Transformative Practises, also known as RYD Growth Habits in each Gear support us to raise our consciousness one Gear at a time from Gear 0 all the way to Gear 5.

Greater our consciousness, greater our awareness of our thoughts, feelings, sensations, energy and being (love or fear).

Like in sports, it is not enough to learn the technique of the RYD Growth Habit. It is not even enough to learn the technique and daily practise the RYD Growth Habit. All 3 things are required to be done for raising our consciousness to be aware, moment to moment, of our sensations, energy, feelings, thoughts, being (fear or love) to be a great leader creating massive positive impact and have it all:
1) Learning the right technique 
2) Practising the right technique on the training ground during daily Morning and Evening Holy Hour
3) Playing on the playground which tells us how much we have progressed in learning the technique as measured by the ease and grace of our play and number of wins - Which means bringing the RYD Growth habits into our everyday life, at work and at home. It's not enough to do gratitudes and acknowledgements morning and evening. Are we playing to be in appreciative acknowledgment of our own self and be grateful for all that we have, moment to moment, as we are playing the game of life? It's not enough to meditate in the morning and evening. Are we practising observing our breath and sensations through the day? It's not enough to do 1 hour of physical fitness daily. Are we standing and sitting with the right posture, moment to moment? Are we sleeping adequate number of hours to be fully rested?

Trust this long answer to your short question served you in some way, Pratik 💜

Keep learning, practising and playing to joyously lead yourself and your business from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; experiencing beauty, balance and harmony within and all around; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way.

Loving you,
j.