Developing and strengthening the connection with inherent awareness accelerates vertical learning and a growth mindset. It also optimizes well-being and builds resilience by reducing the impact of negative stress and destructive emotions. Developing the ability to rest in one’s inherent awareness leads to the experience of unconditional confidence—the sense that one is capable of meeting challenges as they arise and that one has the courageous authenticity to speak truth to power, as well as the willingness to offer oneself in compassionate service to a higher purpose and a greater good.
Ultimately, combining developmental coaching and mindfulness practice can fast track leaders to embody the behavior they seek in others and foster growth mindset organizational cultures that create the conditions that unleash the potential of those around them. The best leaders, at all levels, do, in fact, often act as coaches intentionally developing the organization, and generally caring about the growth of their people as much as they care about the growth of the core business (Garvey Berger, p. 3). Their presence, perspective, and humor create an atmosphere of workability, creativity and willingness to learn from failure that empowers others to take risks. In this way, leaders bring to bear not only their own highest potential in meeting challenges, they also foster the growth of others, at all levels in the organization, to realize their highest potential. That’s real leverage in a VUCA world.
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