Jim Bennett - HOT Leadership

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...

Much of our world isn't very spiritual or positive - it is filld with negativity and fear. We are bombarded daily with negativity on a conscious and subliminal level most of our days. As the pace of doing quickens, we become more and more diatant from our being and from our values and slip more into reactive doing. rather than conciously accessing our unconcious for inner wisdom, we slip into lett...

Dreams are another door to access our inner wisdom and can be considered a goodway to receive message - sometimesa very importnat message from our subconcious. Dreams are are our most effectivesource of informationthat we are taking into our unconscious minds at a rate of 43,000 times that our conscious minds process data. Ther are countless ways for people to access their inner heart, their spiri...

People ask, "How do you get in touch with your heart, your spirit?" I belive the answer lies in being, - just being, in self knowledge and self awareness. It lies in listening to our inner wisdom and trusting that we have the answers. In trusting that we can know what we don't know. It lies inin giving up the past and choosing to live in the present..... Interesting Reading The Power of Now, Eckha...

We need to remember that we are all programmed with a lifetime of instructions, socialistation and linear, analytical, quantitative thinking. One of the greatest challenges we face when learning to lead from our hearts is to become aware when our automatic responses are active. We then begin to understand what is needed in mustering courage to keep the faith in Heart Leadership.... HOT Leadership

An important part of discovering inner knowing, heart knowing, spiritual knowing is learning to be aware of our ourselves. Listening to our inner knowingness. Most of us have been socialised to ignore or stifle the gifts our bodies send us to help us be awater of our heart knowing - the tear in the eye, the lump in the throat,irritabiliuty or nervous enrgy. For some it may be abig stept o become c...

When we lead on the path of courage, complex situations, confusion and apparent chaos don't deter us from our learning. From out heart we know there is deep order in what is happening. If we have the openness, the patience and the courage to ask questions and generate more and more information, we put ourselves and our organisations in the position to begin to see order in the chaos. We begin to s...

A key component of successful organisations is The Heart within the operations, t he glue, the spirit  that presents itself as a positive belief in people, and a belief that the organisation can handle whatever comes its way.  There is an intentional  consciousness and commitment to live from that belief system. This apllies in all walks of life - highlighted recently at the winter olympics. Good...

In Heart Leadership if we are to lead with courage we have to Learn. Learn why we may be 'missing the mark'. Learn whay we do very well sometimes and not so well at other times. We need to undersatnd the sources of our fears. Understand what disguises them from us so that we believe we are angry, frustrated, irritated or confused.  WE need to be conscious of what is driving us. WE should also unde...

To bring spirit into an organisation requires Courage. It requires Leadership commiting to have courage to be calm amid chaos, to sustain the tension until empowered learning has happened. To maintain personal spirit, to have faith and trust in both people and the process. Giving orders doesn't require personal courage. That's one of the reasons so many mangers, who give lip service to workers inv...

The Leader who doesn't keep people focused on the organisation's financials as well as their spiritual goals is undermining their trust which jepordises the relationship of the leader to their workers.  Having a safe relationship is needed for workers to be innovative and creative. The real bottom line is to have finacially healthy, competitive organisationin which there is no need to choose betwe...

In my Human and Organisational Factors research I have found that in organisations with empowering communications they do the following: when people talk they are present with each other their focus is on the person they are speaking to - completely they listen carefully their pace of talking is slower and more studied the level of respect with which each speaks to the other truly honours both Let...

In my research into Human Factors and leaders who promoted creativity, quality and safety I had the opportunity to travel far and wide. I came across an organisation that had an intuitive leader who told me story after story of innovations that their workers had made to enhance the way that they worked. Some changes improved safety, others improved productivity, others improved engineering of prod...

As Leaders if we are to provide space for a spirit centred community to emerge we need a new tool that seeks to challenge our assumptions, our creativity and our spotaneity rather than to restrict and controlin order toensure outomes with which we are familiar and comfotablw with. A communication process called dialogue has gained great respect over the last number oy years - let's explore.... HOT...

The Power of questions may be the most underrated and overlooked leverage we have on our organisations. It is a powerful decision making device and a powerful learning tool. Most of us aren't used to thinking in the terms of questions; we have to practice developing information and idea generating questions and learn to 'package' them in an empowering way to bring understanding to the isssue(s) be...