We are all already self leaders. Maybe on the whole we are very poor self leaders but the science is there; we all have agency and can decide how much autonomy, engagement and alignment we display in anything we do.
Self-Leadership is the art of owning, balancing and optimising your autonomy, engagement and alignment in everything you do.
Your brain (Neuroscience)
Your application in anything
Your joined upness in anything you do
Lack of understanding, support and management of self-leadership leads to many downstream challenges that can absorb time and resource trying to resolve.
Some downstream challenges to poor self-leadership include:
Let’s explore low self-leadership and impact through a couple of examples:
Scenario 1
Imagine you are on a walk with some friends in the countryside and you make a comment “This is soooo boring, let’s go to the pub” and you use some emotional intonations to emphasise your boredom and how fun you feel the pub would be. In this short moment you are likely to trigger fight or flight responses in others – this can be masked in so many ways (disengagement (ignoring), quiet quitting (resolved to where it goes but won’t come along next time), conflict responses (insults, degrading comments etc.), facial expressions… the potentials are endless). Potential impact – break up of an activity, disruption in a group of friends, impacted mental health etc.
This example is replayed over and over again in billions of different settings with billions of different scenarios. The constant will be an emotional trigger in you and how you manage that and the impact on others and how they manage themselves.
In the scenario we are imagining a low understanding, management and support of self-leadership (Autonomy, Engagement, Alignment) in everyone.
In a setting with high self-leadership the likelihood of someone emotionally expressing themselves without considering impact on everyone and what collectively you are trying to achieve is reduced significantly. If you deemed the root cause of your thoughts/emotions as important to what you want to achieve as a group you will find a way of aligning the message; for instance “Hey guys, I’m going to break off and catch up later as I really want a drink and take a break as I’m exhausted, is that ok with everyone?” as an example of so many potentials that are less likely to trigger fight/flight responses.
Equally in high self-leadership environments when someone does express their emotions directly there is the respect and understanding the emotional burst wouldn’t be happening if it wasn’t important to the individual and the next logical step is to explore together and decide next steps, does that feel reasonable?
Scenario 2
Imagine you have a friend who keeps turning up to their job late and it is so obvious to you this is going to have a negative impact. You make a few remarks about them being late but see no correction. You reach a point and can’t hold back any longer and blurt out “Are you serious, you’re going to lose your job, what are you doing?”, you use some emotional intonations to emphasise your frustration and how obvious you feel it is.
In this short moment you are likely to trigger fight or flight responses in your friend – this can be masked in so many ways (disengagement (ignoring), conflict responses (insults, degrading comments etc.), facial expressions… the potentials are endless). Potential impact – break up of a friendship, disruption of a network of connections/activities, impacted mental health etc.
This is a scenario we see time and time again when we feel responsible for performance in others, the setting and the individuals involved may vary but the impact we see is common.
It is an example with low understanding, support and management of self-leadership.
In a setting with high self-leadership the likelihood of someone judging someone else is reduced significantly. There is respect for others and their actions and the fact they are self-leaders in their journey. The focus would be on why there is the constant arrival at work late, not in a judging tone but in a curiosity – “I know you’ll be most likely deciding to get there late, are you? And if so how come? I would have thought you might get fired, right?” Equally in high self-leadership environments when someone does express their emotions there is the respect and understanding that the emotional burst wouldn’t be happening if it wasn’t important to the individual and the next logical step is to explore together and decide next steps, does that feel reasonable?
The understanding, support and management of Self-leadership in ourselves, our teams and organisations (our environments) results in us getting to better places quicker. The things we see are increased proactivity, resilience, innovation, growth, continuous improvement and speed of delivery.
Tribe365® self-leadership transformation is a plug and play self-leadership solution to develop self-leadership in individuals, teams and organisations to shape maximum balance and performance in all environments.
The Tribe365® Self-Leadership programme consists of the content, the stages and the target groups:
The programme can be navigated as fast or slow as individuals, teams and organisations need.
To help you, your teams and your environment most the Tribe365® self-leadership transformation programme is:
In theory you could do a very “face to face” version of our programme. It would be slower (aligning diaries etc.), more time consuming (travel, location coordination) and far more expensive (costs of travel and not using efficiencies of scaled delivery) .
By using the app you tap into the most effective and cost efficient delivery.
We have shaped the Tribe365® app to meet the developmental needs of our individuals, teams and organisations to increase self-leadership capability and capacity. The focus is to support individual development and to filter up through teams and organisations, to do this the app gives access to:
Daily prompted self-reflection
Access the full programme content
1:1 Tribe365® consultant supported reflection
Explore practical real world challenges
Reflect on your development
Assure your dedication to your self-development
| Activity | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Resource |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start daily metacognition exercises through the sentiment pop-up | 5 seconds | ||||
| Engage with the HPTM® (High Performing Team Member) Self-Leadership programme | 30 minutes | ||||
| Reflect weekly with our consultants | 5 minutes | ||||
| Jump on to our Bi-Weekly 1 hour workshops | 1 hour | ||||
| Reflect on your progress with our monthly consultant reports | 20 minutes | ||||
| Baseline and Check-up Survey (10 questions) | 5 minutes | ||||
It is best to get moving as soon as you can to start the journey. To facilitate this it might be best to commit yourself to a small trial period and define what you want to see from the period. For instance, as an individual, explore the journey for one month and see how it looks and feels and whether it delivers sufficient benefit, what do you think?
Available on iOS and Android. Download the Tribe365® app and start your transformation immediately.
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Either send us the details of the individuals (First Name, Surname, Email) or you can manually sign up on the Tribe365® app.
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Individuals start their 4 week plan.
Consultants monitor and support progress with interventions as required.
Monthly reports to summarise progress and any key observations.
You decide how you want to progress.
Remember the transformation journey is to be explored and managed at your pace. It is your journey.
To support you we give you monthly reports for you to reflect in and adjust your journey where needed:
Tribe365 ® Self-Leadership transformation has everything you need to maximise self-leadership in yourself and your environment. If you can’t find what you are looking for to support you get in touch with team@tribe365.co and we can explore what you need.
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