Mindful Leadership allows leaders to come up for air on a regular basis throughout the day and capture their threads of intuition and innate creativity and genius.

2. Who Am I?????
1. I provide individual and group coaching programs
2. I offer high impact high energy interventions.
3. I help co-create
• self awareness
• deeper engagement
• group cohesion and
• organizational understanding
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4. Webinar Goal
To understand that when you purposely and mindfully
engaged in creating your own daily battle rhythm you will be
less inclined to be reactive in the face of an inevitable crisis –
and you will have more energy and staying power to apply
sound problem solving skills to resolve the situation
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5. What Will You Learn?
You will learn about…
#1. What Mindful Leadership Is…
#2. What The Benefits Of Mindful Leadership Are
#3. Pathways Towards Becoming Mindful
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6. The Parable Of The Woodcutter…
A long long time
ago in a faraway
place, a celebrated
young woodcutter,
who was renowned
far and wide for his
wood cutting
prowess, entered a
tree-felling
competition.

7. The Prize To The Winner …
was 10 pieces of
gold – which
would enable the
young
woodcutter to
take a wife and to
start his own
business as a
wood merchant in
the local village.

8. The Competition From The Surrounding
Villages
was fierce, as
tree cutters were
a very
competitive
bunch and
enjoyed nothing
more than to
show off their
strength and
stamina.

9. Over Several Days Of Tree Felling …
the young woodcutter
beat all of the
competition from the
surrounding villages –
… all except for one
very old and wizened
little man.

10. As The Final Day Of The Competition
Approached ….
the young woodcutter
believed that his
victory was assured.
He had surveyed the
very old and wizened
little man and saw
what he believed were
serious limitations of
both strength and
stamina.

11. And So, As The Final Starting Bell Rang …
The young woodcutter
believed that the days’ felling
would be in his favor.
As they each began their task
the young man noticed that
the old man was frequently
stopping
… and as he had assumed
that strength and stamina
were his competitive
advantage he became even
more convinced that his
victory was assured.

12. As The Day Progressed Towards Sunset …
the young woodcutter was
beginning to feel tired and
sore, however he was certain
that the end-of-day tally of
felled trees was in his favor,
so he soldiered on without
complaint until the final bell
rang.

13. After The Judges Tallied Up The Felled Trees
…
for both finalists they
declared that….
the very old and
wizened little man
had felled more trees
than the young
woodcutter.

14. This Of Course Meant That …
the old man won the
prize, and the young
man saw his dream
of a wife and his own
business being
snatched away.
He was furious and
demanded a recount!

15. Of Course The Recount Produced The Same
Result…

16. Rather Than Walking Away From The
Experience …
without the benefit of
knowing how the old
man beat him, the
young wood cutter
first congratulated him
on his win – then very
pointedly asked him
how he did it.

17. The Big Question…..
“Old man – I want to congratulate
you on winning the competition –
but I have a question to ask you! As
we each began our task this
morning I noticed that you
frequently stopped to take a break,
and as we both know that I had
strength and stamina on my side,
so …
how then was it possible that you
felled more trees than I did?

18. As The Young Wood Cutter Waited For His
Answer….
the little wizened old man
straightened his posture,
and as he stood erect he
leaned forward and grinned
as he looked the young
wood cutter in the eye and
then gently and simply
said…

19. “Every Time I Took A Break I Sharpened My Ax”

20. Who Has Time To Sharpen Their Ax???

22. Mindful Leadership …..
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Purposeful
Nonjudgmental
Being In The
Present
Moment
Mindful

23. Being Mindful Not Mind Full…
•Right now I want you to suspend your judgment
•Be in the moment during this presentation…
•Be purposeful in your listening…
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25. Mindful Leadership…
• Mindful
Leadership is
one strategy that
can serve to
sharpen your ax
and improve
leadership
effectiveness in
complex
organizations.
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26. Mindful Leadership
• … and mindfulness offer a
collection of tools for both
seasoned and emerging leaders
to more purposely engage the
contemporary workplace.
• Being a leader of Millennials
requires that
• we be present
• we commit to coaching rather than
directing
• we be attentive and engaged on
multiple levels
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27. Mindful Leadership And Mindfulness Can Be
• achieved through a deeper degree of both self-awareness and
awareness of others,
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28. A Huge Body Of Work Around Mindful Leadership…
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29. What Is Mindful Leadership?
•Mindful leadership is a psychological
process, which occurs by being purposeful,
present, and nonjudgmental as we focus our
attention to the present moment.

30. Mindful Leadership And Mindfulness Represents
• a psychological process, wherein we focus our attention to the
internal and external experiences occurring in the present moment.
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31. Building Your
Brain Muscle
To Sustain
Attention
Shut Down Your
Multi-Tasking
Ability
Purposeful
Present
Non-Judgmental

32. What Are The Benefits Of Mindful Leadership?
•Mindful Leadership
allows leaders to
come up for air on a
regular basis
throughout the day
•and capture their
threads of intuition
and innate creativity
and genius.

33. What Are The Pathways Towards Becoming A
Mindful Leader?
• includes exploring
self-awareness and
affirming self-
authority with regard
to your own daily
battle rhythm, and
establishing individual
strategies for being
more
• purposeful, present
and non-judgmental.
Purposeful
Nonjudgmental
Being In The
Present
Moment

34. Bottom-line
• When you purposely and
mindfully engaged in
creating your own daily
battle rhythm you will
• be less inclined to be
reactive in the face of an
inevitable crisis – and
• you will have more energy
and staying power to apply
sound problem solving skills
to resolve the situation.

35. The Question Is ….
•what strategy do
you use to sharpen
your ax?

36. What Did You Learn?
You learnt about…
#1. What Mindful Leadership Is…
#2. What The Benefits Of Mindful Leadership Are
#3. Pathways Towards Becoming Mindful
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37. Questions
1. In your view, what is the #1 quality of a leader
2. Sometimes reflecting before reactive can be viewed as slow to
make decisions; what is your recommendation to avoid giving that
perception?
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