Jim Bennett - HOT Leadership

We only know what we know - what we have been taught by books, by videos, by audios, by others and by our experiences. That is all we know. Or is it? Is it possible that we don't know what we believe we know? That we know what we don't know we know? Once I 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. promotions will come, I...

Dreams are a good way to receive message, sometimes very important messages from the unconscious. The Bible, Native American Lore and Greek, Roman and other mythology are rich in examples of dreams that provide significant guidance to people who listen to and seek to understand their dreams. Dreams are our most effective source of the information hat we are taking into our unconscious minds at alm...

How do we get in touch with Spirit, in touch with our inner self? The answer, I believe, is 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." It lies in trusting that we know "what we don't know". We understand our 'safe operating limit" from a physical and mental level. On a spiritual level it lies in g...

On the path of Fear, we sacrifice the peace and joy of our current experience as we reach out for the future. When I was on the path of Fear, I didn't know that in my new reality in the path of Courage what others happened to think would become irrelevant. Moving forward I had reached a point of no return. I had glimpsed what it was like to live from the heart in short quiet times. I made a leap o...

We need to remember that we have all been programmed with a lifetime of instruction, socialization, and linear, analytical and quantitative thinking. One of the biggest challenges we face in learning to lead from the heart, lead from our spirits is to become aware when our automatic behavioural responses are activated. Once we begin to to identify situations that pull us out of our heart space, or...

Seeking the Wonder Child For most of us, our search for spiritual knowledge is rewarded over the years in 'bits and pieces'. Yet spiritual knowing is within each of us all the time: but until we have done some organized self-discovery, most of us don't know we have it. The things that touch our hearts have always touched our hearts, we may not have been aware that we were being touched. This exper...

Heart Leadership is about learning of the heart, not of the head. Reading and listening about it doesn't bring it to the heart. We often spend years helping our heads to discover what our hearts must have known 'years ago'. Our unconsciousness has the knowledge, bit it is usually inconvenient to acknowledge that fact. This knowledge doesn't 'fit' with popular or management trends or with our perso...

The Learning process never ends - a friend once said "Any discussion on spirituality needs to consider learning as integral to being on a spiritual journey." Heart Leadership growth is not a task with defined parameters and a decisive ending. The learning and the process continue; the journey is is without and end. The true destination of teh process is the journey itself, the process or practice...

The glue that manifests itself in successful organizations is a spirit that presents itself as a positive belief in people, and a belief that the organization can handle whatever comes its way. There is a consciousness, intentionality and commitment at living from that belief. The ingredients that engender creativity, quality, participation, leadership and health and allow an organization to flour...

Many Managers who try to lead organizational change keep "missing the mark". Their frustration mounts until many 'give up.' "I've tried so many times and none of my approaches work". What they are really saying is "I haven't been able to allow then to work because I am unwilling to own my part". A heart centered spiritual practice brings us closer to out target. Without learning, spiritual practic...

Courage doesn't come in a bottle to be taken when needed when symptoms of weakness appear. To live the kind of courage required to bring spirit into the workplace, our communities requires the Heart Leader to take time to experience the relationship we have with ourselves and to discover what heart centered spiritual leadership is about. It also requires an acceptance of emotions - ours and those...

We explore bringing spirit into everyday life and especially into our workplace. There appears to be 2 keys for understanding the 'Spirit/Heart Cycle" (as per the link below). The first is seeing our work as a spiritual practice, like practicing on an instrument or a sport to get better and better at what we are doing. The second is making a commitment to learn from each other and move closer and...

Relationships are different here - when people interact there is an unusual quality in their relationship. When people talk, they are really present with each other. Even although there are many activities - their focus is on the person to whom they are talking to - completely. They listen carefully and ask question to get a deeper understanding on what they are talking about. The level of respect...

Unleashing the Spirit Cycle at work and within our communities: We explore my work in helping organizations harness the the zest, the innate energy within their work. A journey in working with creativity, leadership, quality and technical integrity. Getting a deeper understanding of "what was putting people on fire" in some organizations and not others. Something called the "Spirit Cycle" - the wa...

If we as Heart Leaders provide space for spirit to emerge, we need a new tool that seeks to challenge or assumptions, our creativity and our spontaneity rather than to restrict and control in order to ensure there are outcomes that are familiar and comfortable.. We need tools that help groups of people to learn and think together so that as a group they can discover things that would have been imp...

Leaders in spirit respecting workplace are deeply connected with everyone. Heart Centred Leaders love, value and respect both themselves and other. Trust is assumed and faith is given. Trust and faith are unconditional. They can not be earned; they can only be lost. When we are warm, caring and sympathetic - truly putting ourselves in each other's shoes - we can bring people together in a new dime...

Respect is a word that has taken on a new meaning from a Leadership perspective. When we 'respect' people we give them the benefit of the doubt, we are willing to look at other considerations or look again at the old ones and to say ther must be something here that we initially missed.b We challenge initial assumptions. We see positive possibilities. With a seceond look, we usually see perspective...

Heart centered Leaders recognise that everything in life is a choice - whether it be in our family, business or within our communities. When we say we don't have the time or money to do something for our family, our community, our organisation, that we think will be good for everyone, we are actually saying there are other things on which we choose to spend our time and money on. Heart Leadership...

Courage is not treading a pathway without fear - it's the strength to face it and take action. Leadership occurs in all levels of our society, it emerges when people have the courage to incorporate a few simple truths into their whole lives. When we live from our spirit, the more we recognise that we don't have work lives, home lives, community lives, lives as workers or employers and lives as par...

Work bridges the critical gap between the spiritual and rational in each and everyone of us. .A gap that is seeking wholeness, completion. Our heart spirit is a fire within, that ignites us with passion, purpose, love, energy and courage. That fire is within our core and sets us ablaze when we are near our work, not merely our job or career, but a personal calling, our purpose that is spiritually...

Enthusiasm can't be can't be stirred by spiritless wo/men. The zest, the innate energy within is 'stirred' by the soul, the inner spirit. Describing spirit is like wrestling with a lovable octopus - the closer you get to it, the harder it is to embrace. We ask the question "What is spirit"? We endeavor to share insights from 40 years of exploration... HOT Leadership

Heart Leadership is about the internal qualities of a person, the energy, the zest they bring into their lives and others that they 'touch'. It's Leadership Without Title - we all have the capability of being 'Leaders.' It's about unlearning the things that insulate us from 'spirit'. Traditional 'Management" training has often focused on manipulating people to the company's ends in the belief that...

Before we can become leaders each of us needs to recognise that every human being is unique. To be a heart leader means seeing individuals, not undistinguished groups of people. To be a leader means discovering what works for us personally when we are living from spirit, not following a how-to-do-it prescription book. It means discovering and respecting that same place in each and every individual...

Searching for a new path involves accepting our current situation - "calling it as it is". In our current pandemic many have found themselves in the midst of pain, confusion and struggle that chaos inevitably brings. Chaos is a creative incubator from which a higher order can emerge, but chaos is frightening. It can be frightening for the people plunged in the middle of it, for leaders, for those...

Leading from the Heart is about choosing Courage over fear in ourselves, our workplace and communities. Our Pandemic world has raised a palatable level of fear within our communities. This introductory podcasts offers a prescription for transformation around four concepts: 1. There are 2 paths in Life - the path of fear and the Path of Courage 2. Leaders must their own internal work before they ca...