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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- Method: Trust – BRAVING
- Method: Emotional Intelligence
- Method: Johari Window
- Method: Leadership Circle Profile
- Method: Above the Line // Below the Line
- Method: Trust
- Method: Ladder of Inference
- Book: Teaching Smart People How To Learn, Chris Argyris
- Tool: The GIVE Model
- Journal Article: Authentic Leadership: Development and Validation of a Theory-Based Measure
- Book: The Dreaming Path, Paul Callaghan & Uncle Paul Gordon
- Element: Leading Impact
- Book: Inner Excellence, Jim Murphy
- Method: Setting Intentions
- Article: Are You Ready to Be Coached?
- Journal Article: Confronting COVID: Crisis Leadership, Turbulence, and Self-Care
- Method: 5 Levels of Leadership
- Method: DiSC
- Method: Wellbeing
- Journal Article: Asking the right questions: The role of reflection for learning in and between projects
- Journal Article: The origins and conceptualizations of ‘triple-loop’ learning: A critical review
- Book: Beginning Reflective Practice, Melanie Jasper
- 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: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain
- Book: Mindset, Carol Dweck
- Practice: Connecting from the heart
- Practice: Motivating success
- Practice: Reflecting for Progress
- Journal Article: Pathways for Positive Identity Construction at Work: Four Types of Positive Identity and the Building of Social Resources
- Element: Leading Projects
- Element: Leading Others