The Other Side of Leadership: Moving from Authoritarian to Authentic Robert Palmer, PhD Your reality is what you make it, but that doesn’t mean it’s actual. Most people are not aware of the difference between their reality and actuality. They also lack awareness of how they let circumstances affect them at the core of their […]
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The Other Side of Leadership: Moving from Authoritarian to Authentic Robert Palmer, PhD Awareness is a lifelong practice that needs to be practiced daily and not something to be rushed. Hurrying might lead you to pull back or even throw in the towel entirely because your life is filled with busyness getting things done. Small,
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The Other Side of Leadership: Moving from Authoritarian to Authentic Robert Palmer, PhD Awareness is an interesting aspect of our humanity; it is evidence of your brain’s subconscious, unconscious, and conscious work. Awareness is an elusive phenomenon because it’s difficult to understand, yet you’re aware of your awareness to some degree in your everyday functioning
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The Other Side of Leadership: Moving from Authoritarian to Authentic Robert Palmer, PhD Your life is all about you, but not the way you think. You don’t know yourself very well. In actuality you’re a very complicated person with layers of experiences where you have engaged in natural and learned behaviors. To be a person
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The Other Side of Leadership: Moving from Authoritarian to Authentic Robert Palmer, PhD A psychological dynamic occurs when two opposing factors force a change in function. For example, being a leader and having leadership are dynamically different because of their functioning. A leader is a person who holds a position of authority and bears responsibility
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The Other Side of Leadership: Moving from Authoritarian to Authentic Robert Palmer, PhD The difference between influence and authority is significant yet clandestine. It’s a difference of intention. Influence is based on authenticity, while compliance is based on authoritarianism. Deep down in the heart of the authoritarian leader is the realization that they don’t have
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The Other Side of Leadership: Moving from Authoritarian to Authentic Robert Palmer, PhD Being centered is not about doing but being. Being who you are is the first step. The second step is the doing. You have to be yourself. It is being who you truly are as a unique human being characterized by possibility.
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The fourth dimension is about how you perform as a leader with your leadership, but also how you get your people to perform at their full functioning level. Your ability to grow yourself and grow your people requires healthy and positive influence. A leader can only bring people to a place where they have grown
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In the third dimension, we shift from how you influence yourself through awareness and connection, to how you influence others (in addition to yourself) through empowerment and performance. How you empower yourself and others has four delving levels that drive your centeredness. Starting with a broader understanding of your principles, and how you guard and
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Being centered means that you have a reference point or a place that allows you to reset if you have to and to come back to when life’s challenges throw you out of alignment, and emotions pull you out of your centered place. The center is the place you know you have to get back to because
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