Reflective leadership is a transformative approach that balances deep self-awareness with genuine empathy and continuous growth. Practices associated with this element allow leaders to systematically examine their motivations, strengths, and weaknesses while investing time to understand their team’s personal drivers. They see challenges as learning opportunities, actively seek feedback, and ensure their actions align with core ethical principles. By creating space for reflection and demonstrating adaptability, they navigate complexity with courage and humility. Reflective leaders foster psychological safety, bridge cultural divides, and promote open communication, ultimately driving meaningful organisational and personal transformation through their commitment to self-improvement and inclusive leadership.
The Leading Self element incorporates the following practices: reflecting for progress, motivating success and connecting from the heart.
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- Element: Leading Impact
- Journal Article: Confronting COVID: Crisis Leadership, Turbulence, and Self-Care
- Method: Trust – BRAVING
- Method: Trust
- Method: Ladder of Inference
- Method: Above the Line // Below the Line
- Method: 5 Levels of Leadership
- Method: Johari Window
- Method: Leadership Circle Profile
- Method: DiSC
- Method: Wellbeing
- Journal Article: Asking the right questions: The role of reflection for learning in and between projects
- Book: Teaching Smart People How To Learn, Chris Argyris
- Tools: The GIVE Model
- Journal Article: Pathways for Positive Identity Construction at Work: Four Types of Positive Identity and the Building of Social Resources
- Journal Article: The origins and conceptualizations of ‘triple-loop’ learning: A critical review
- Book: Beginning Reflective Practice, Melanie Jasper
- Journal Article: Authentic Leadership: Development and Validation of a Theory-Based Measure
- Journal Article: Conscious Capitalism: Leaders and Organizations with a World View.
- Journal Article: Ethics, character, and authentic transformational leadership behavior
- Book: Crucial Conversations, Patterson; Grenny; McMillan
- Book: Boundaries, Cloud & Townsend
- Book: Emotional Intelligence 2.0, Travis Bradberry
- Tool: The Leadership Circle Profile
- Book: The Dreaming Path, Paul Callaghan & Uncle Paul Gordon
- Book: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain
- Book: Inner Excellence, Jim Murphy
- Book: Mindset, Carol Dweck
- Practice: Connecting from the heart
- Practice: Motivating success
- Practice: Reflecting for Progress
- Method: Emotional Intelligence
- Element: Leading Projects
- Element: Leading Others