Jim Bennett - HOT Leadership

Success and failure can be viewed by different eyes and filters. For me, ther are pretty few objective measures of success. What may be a dismal failure to someone could be a dazzling success to another. The opposite may also be true.  If you do something that other people go 'crazy about' , but you know deep down that you have fallen short of the standards you expect of yourself, I would suggest...

There are seven billion people on our planet. Many will tell you what to think and do, for me, the most important voice to listen to is yours. It's the classic "walk your own path, be your own person" - aye that's easy to say - not so easy to do in our turbulent world. Let's explore that concept of being your authentic self and about having the resilience of being "steady under load"..... Stronger...

eNobody is immune to imposter syndrome. I am certainly not. There were days when I was presenting a workshop in foreign soil and had nagging thoughts "Why are you doing this? Are you really qualified...., on, on, on. " Now I can reply I am drawing on my experience, which in my opinion, is as valuable as an academic course. Yes, the academic courses give us a solid foundation to build on, for me, i...

Confidence is somethingthat so many prople struggle with. It's the lack of confiddence that holds them back from doing the things they want to do or become the personthey want to be, inhibiting them in social events and prevents them from obtaining new skills. I beieve the thing that confuses some people is that ther's a difference between the kind of confidence that is given externally and the ki...

For many there is a gap between the way people think and the way they behave. I've found that when your mental and physical sides are out of balance you can feel lost, have a sense you're failing to reach your full potential or end up making the same poor decisions time and time again. Over the years in my coaching journeys around the globe I've mused over this more and more. I believe that many p...

o be leaders who inspire courage, we have to be concious. We must awaken fromthe spells that autopilot modes have cast upon us. From the place I have called our heart our spirit, our passion and enthusiasm allow us to be leaders because people want to follow and not because we contrive to make themwhat we think is safe. From that place of being true to ourself we can come to live the integrity of...

Until leaders are willing to let go of their fear and discover the courage of their hearts, our workplaces will continueto stifle the natural forces that produce energy, vitality, flexibility, resilience, learning and excellence. Programmes that are implemented on a foundation of fear are doomed to failure. The sustained energyfor flexibility and resposveness for an ever chnaing  world will never...

Regardless of where we are in an organisation, what our role may be or where we sit in an organisational chart - the key to being a leader without title is to be our true selves, speaking from our heart. A maturing 'inner wonderchild' soars and shines brightly with all our unique natural qualities rather than wearing the masks our egos  may have created to protect us on the path of Fear .... Stron...

Work can be energising, exhilarating, and a place of learning and growth. It can provide and outlet for our creativity. Creativity is, among other things, learning. Creativity is learning new ways of looking at old probelems and learning new ways of working to produce better results.  The uniqueness that each of us brings to the workplace is the fuel for creativity. That uniqueness is part of the...

If we wish to build an organisation that leads from the heart we want to build a spirit respecting workplace. This leads us to the transformation of the role of our senior managers. We shift our thinking from focusing on the product, the task, or what we call the tangible outcome to being in service to the people whoc make the prodcut, perform the task, or produce the tangible outcomes.  We shift...

In recent years It has become increasingly apparent that our organisations can't make the transition required by the fast pace of change in the world except under one condition: Change must happen through every level within the organisation almost simutlataneously. What this comes down to is that people all know what they want the organisation to be, they also have the personal commitment to be le...

Within Heart Leadership we 'see things as we would like them to be' and then having the courage to be the change to make it happen. On the path of courage, there is a time when a leader comes to know what is possible. With their heart as a guide they have a knowing feeling " If I can think it, It can happen" . Their heart spirit brings them peace, inspiration, faith, trust and the complete belief...

When our businesses choose to lead from the heart and choose the Path of Courage - building a spirit respectine workplace, there are also prices to pay as well as rewards to reap - a balance: give up being driven by events and accept being guided by our vision and values. give up doing it alone and being part of a team. give up our need to control peolple and outcomes and empower others. give up f...

The ability to lead for the heart and live from spirit is the result of choosing to live consciously. Being committed to living consciously in a society that mostly muddle through in auto-pilot isn't easy. There is a price to pay for choosing to live consciously. A friend has said that to live consciously is to be more charitable. Unlike the the grudging donation made form obligation, true charita...

I have discovered that the things I should be doing were the product of my rules. Importantly, doing things kept me insulated form the conscious part of me that would have let me discover that there were no rules. It was a long time before I could sit and listen to my inner wisdom. When I listened to my inner wisdom I discovered incredible things.... HOT Leadership

Many believe that all human behaviours are motivated by either fear or desire. I believe that fear and desire/want are nearly always related. Likewise, with almost every fear, there is an implied desire. attached to it. The associated fear may be as simple as being afraid we won't get what we want/desire - it is still there. I believe that until we name that fear and come to terms with it and make...

Peace is an essential part of our spirits. When we live and lead on our path of courage we become to know a deep level of peace that goes through every part of our bodies, We may still be afraid, angry and frustrated by at events of teh day, however, guiding us like a rudder is a deep sense of peace that tells us we are on the right track. This peace is generated by a inner connection to our authe...

When we plan for the future, we try to project what conditions will be and determine in advance how to act to achieve a future goal that we established some time in the past. However, when we prepare in the present to respond in the future we focus on our vision and values and on learning . We focus on identifying a core set of questions that will tell us if we are on track that enables resilience...

When we are not present and not aware, we can lose connection. When we think about something we are going to do or something we should have done differently, we are affecting all the relationships of the connection that allows us to build trust, faith, cooperation, connection, and community. For most of us, going mindlessly through the day is so habitual that it takes a lot of practice to start be...

When we don't address and resolve conflict in a healthy way that respects everyone involved, misplaced anger almost always results. As human beigs, when we keep surpressing emotions around unresolved conflict, pressure builds, over time we becomd more and more volatile and can explode over the most minor of things. When we want to truly resolve conflicts so that relationships improveand people wor...

If we are to be completely in a relationship, we have to be whole, aware individuals who know what to feeland what we want as well as what we think, and we have to truly want to be in a community with others. I believe we can't come into the relationship dependant on others to get approval to make us feel whole. When we come to relationships as whole individuals committed to acepting others in our...

In building relationships it's important to know what gets in the way of connectiont. To connect with others, we must be completely in the relationship - we must bting our true, whole, authentic self, complete with beliefs, values and emotions, to other that we live and work with. We risk being vulnerable - instead of mechanically saying, doing, or feeling what we believe we 'should' say, do, or f...

On the Path of Courage, there are aswers to the many barriers we encounter on the path of fear. When the Path of Courage is taken, empowered by powerful questions, new and different ways of doing things are always discovered. Each new venture/challenge coming over the horizon is an opportunity to learn and grow. When we question what we know, we continuse to develop a higher sense of kowingness -...

A considerable amount of my time in business has been helping individual Leaders and groups of Leaders discover what they didn't know they knew and also what they didn'r know they didn't know - tose things they believed to be true and were false. The consious mind has the ability to process about 7 pieces of informayion per minute. Our unconcious mind can process three hundred thousand pieces of i...

We only know what we know - what we have been taught by books, by others and by our expereinces. That is all we know. Or is it? Is it possible that we don't know what we belive we know? That we know we don't know we know? Once is was sure I knew how to get ahead: get a good education, find a good company, work hard, do what I am told and be loyal...  In lee than a geneation, most of what I and oth...