The Self-Leadership Course
Self-Leadership is the Foundation of Great, Authentic Leadership – take control over your career, build resilience and become an emotionally and mentally strong Leader to yourself and others.
on-demand video course | science-based leadership education | practical tools
Great Leadership is an Identity, not a Skill
What defines a great Leader? What is a great Leader from different points of view? There are a lot of different types of successful leaders. Some are inspiring, and others are more autocratic. The difference often consists in the balance shift between serving personal, company-related or people-related needs. However, there are a few things that great leaders should focus on in common, no matter what leadership style they belong to.
The aim of this course is to make good Leadership your new identity.
✨ Gaining Self-Knowledge
A great leader has deep self-knowledge and is, therefore, able to recognise the dynamics and needs of others. Being able to lead yourself is the first step towards being able to lead others. For this, a Leader should be aware and act in alignment with their values and mission.
#bias #mentalrepresentations #selfefficacy #selfawareness #decisionmaking #attribution #emotionalregulation
🏆 Applying Growth Mindset
A Leader should never get trapped in the status quo and instead always strive for growth and development. This also means accepting the necessity of change. In order to keep on track, habit-shaping and the reframing of limiting beliefs is essential.
#motivation #habits #learning #dependencies #attitude #mindset #growthlifestyle #mentalhealth
💪 Leading with Transparency
Expectations, goals, risks, strengths, weaknesses, values and tasks should be clear to everyone. This requires a certain level of consistency and interaction. Clear and efficient communication is key to getting a whole team pulling in one direction.
#communicaton #values #vision #teaching #delegating #management
🗝️ Mastering Balance
As a leader, you must be brilliant in handling tradeoffs as you constantly manage different stakeholder needs and make decisions. Above this, you must also balance personal, company-related and employee-related needs and your mental and physical health. You should know how to keep the balance, set boundaries and say no.
#shaping #tradeoffs #intuition #boundaries #conflictmanagement
🎯 Life-long Learning & Focus
There are no shortcuts to great leadership. It is nothing that comes by night. Experience, self-reflection, awareness and learning are shaping your skills continuously. You need to intentionally put your focus on things that bring you further.
The Fundamentals of Great Leadership
Great leadership lies within any one of us.
Great Leadership is mainly about the ability to focus all our mind and emotional capacity on a particular problem, situation, or even learning process and progress.
It’s about staying focused and resilient, even in emotionally engaging situations. It’s about managing negative emotions, like stress, anger and fear, while being able to use all of your resources to handle given circumstances efficiently.
It’s about getting the most out of yourself and any life opportunity.
It’s about knowing yourself deeply and taking control of your life and career. It’s about reading between the lines, ignoring the noise, acting wisely and detaching from external expectations and pressure. It’s about mental and emotional strength.
Resilience and authenticity.
If you do some research on leadership, you will find countless techniques and strategies that tell you how to be a good leader. But let’s be honest: the minute you are directly confronted and challenged, your system is busily regulating your negative emotions. Therefore, you can’t focus all your attention on implementing techniques or strategies that might solve the problem. Stress hinders you from efficiency and confronts you with your uncertainties.
Stress and uncertainty make you choose whatever is necessary to reduce negative emotions because your need in this situation is to regain your inner balance.
You will mainly do two things:
- protecting your self-image by either behaving according to external expectations, as these make you feel like playing on the safe side or taking a fighting position to mask your inner uncertainty,
- reducing negative emotions by behaving in a way that most likely compensates your triggered negative emotions or beliefs – this is related to any coping mechanism you have learned in the past – it can be a fight, flight, freeze reaction or anything else.
And these reactions are all some kind of learned behaviour – they are deeply rooted in our past experiences, the way we believe things work.
So, shortly said, we lead according to our inner scripts and beliefs that we learned somewhere in the past or all along our lives. These scripts have their very strong limitations – they hinder us from growth, agility and progress as they subconsciously keep us in our comfort zone and make us repeatedly do the same things again and again.
They control our behaviour and experiences. They make us the leaders that we are now. They deprive us of our freedom of choice – from the leader we’d choose to be.
We want to break this vicious circle of external determination and become the leaders we always wanted to be. We choose to be the authentic, great leaders that live within all of us.
How will Great Leadership help us?
By learning the fundamentals of human behaviour and perception, we will identify the motivators of our own behaviour.
By gaining self-awareness, we will be able to transform limitations and change towards our goals.
By changing and observing ourselves, we regain control over our lives, progress, growth and outcome of events.
There are two key factors that we want to transform within this Self-Leadership Course in order to become Great Leaders:
🔹 from External- to Self-Determination
transforming externally determined behavioural patterns and perception into Autonomy and Self-Determination aligned with our core values
🔹 from Uncertainty to Resilience
transforming the effects of uncertainty into Resilience and Self-Confidence to exploit growth potential
Our worldview, the way we perceive our environment and ourselves, is an accumulation of knowledge, experiences and lessons we learned along our lives and from which we draw our very subjective conclusions. Therefore, saying that our behaviour and perception are largely unconscious and externally determined by past lessons we learned sounds quite logical.
The question is: Is being controlled by our subconscious the best we can get? Or could it be different?
Of course, it could be different. And better, by consciously getting the best version of ourselves day by day. This demands focus and the ability to continuously deal with uncertainty in an efficient way. Uncertainty is an invisible power that can easily trigger deep-rooted fear, anxiety, trauma and anger. It detaches us from our cognitive abilities, leading from semi-optimal to extremely bad decisions. We learn to deal with uncertainty and grow from challenges by becoming mentally and emotionally strong.
This Course is Coming Soon
The Self-Leadership Online Course is in the making and will be launched soon!
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Table of Contents
- The stages of Self-Growth
- The basics of Human Behaviour and Perception: How does our thinking and feeling work?
- Mental representations
- Emotions as Triggers & Strategies of Emotional Self-Regulation
- Motivation, Change & Learning
- Neuroplasticity
- Creating a Success Lifestyle & Mindset
- Self Efficacy
- Resilience
- Positivity
- The Power of Small Improvements
- Mindfulness
- Detachment & Acceptance
- Habit Shaping
- Healthy Living: food, sleep, fitness
- Transforming self-serving and self-destructive limitations
- Attribution
- Defence mechanisms & coping
- The Decision-making Process & Influencing Factors
- Heuristics
- Algorithms
- Cognitive Bias
- Intuition
- Conscious and unconscious attitudes
- Procrastination
- Authenticity
- Transparency & Consistency
- Pleaser or Provoker
- Setting Boundaries
- Self Leadership in action: Judgement, Feedback, Expectations
- Powerful self-growth tools
