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Conscious Leadership As An Empowering Leadership Practice DR. VALITA JONES PROGRAM MANAGER, CIHED UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO WOMEN’S CONFERENCE

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This is a PowerPoint from a Women's Conference at the University of California, San Diego, which took place on May 6, 2014. Conscious Leadership was born out of the dissertation work of Dr. Valita Jones and is focused on assisting individuals within any organization in becoming more aware, responsible and accountable. After being exposed to the Conscious Leadership theory, framework, and practice you will learned how to influence change, be able to create opportunities for transformation within systems, intentionally lead from a shared perspective and promote an organizational ethos of cooperation and collaboration.

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Conscious Leadership As An

Empowering Leadership

Practice

DR. VALITA JONES

PROGRAM MANAGER, CIHED

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

WOMEN’S CONFERENCE

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Agenda for the Day…

Reflective and critically look at an alternative

leadership model/framework

Create A New Cycle Of Thinking & Change

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We Think of Leadership As…

A Developmental Process...

Authoritarian…

Management…

Visionary…

Strategic…

Systemic…

A Practice...

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Leadership Styles: The

Condition of Our Thinking…

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Types of Leadership Models

Traditional (Fragmented)

Authoritarian leadership (chain of

command)

Charismatic leadership

Trait leadership

Transformative (Networked)

Love-Based leadership

Soul leadership

Personal leadership

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Ethos of Work Environments

Fragmented/

Hierarchical Orientation

1. Past perspectives

2. Distinct boundaries

3. Linear causality

4. Change incrementally

5. Simple Complexity

6. Can be controlled

Networked Orientation

1. Whole system

2. Blurred boundaries

3. Non-linear causality

4. Dynamic flux

5. Increased complexity

6. Can be influenced

Allen & Cherry, 2000

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Why Are Styles Important?

Because the style of an organization’s leadership is

reflected in both the nature of that organization and its

relationship with the others

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Motivation To Change…

Learning organizations are emerging

Creativity and innovation are unfolding as

drivers within organizations

Unprecedented meeting of worldviews, belief

systems, and ways of engaging reality

Globalization and changing work

environments now require cooperative &

collaborative interactions

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A Need To be Different

"We cannot solve our problems with the

same kind of consciousness with which

we created them.“ ~Albert Einstein

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Conscious Awareness

Is a process of recognizing what is going on

inside and outside of you

That decisions and actions have effects and

the interaction between a complex array of factors and forces that are not necessary

controllable

Awareness is a powerful tool for transcending

unconscious patterns, fostering an expanded perspective and openness to new possibilities”

http://www.triplepundit.com/2011/08/conscious-leader/

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So What Does it Mean to Be Conscious?

Simply put we are aware…

Work from a place of possibility…

Understand that our thoughts have power…

Develop skills that can match our inner capacities

to the outer complexities of life (balance)…

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How Do You Know You Are

Conscious?

“The best indicator of your level of consciousness

is how you deal with life’s challenges when they

come. Through those challenges, an already

unconscious person tends to become more

deeply unconscious, and a conscious person

more intensely conscious. You can use a

challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to

pull you into even deeper sleep”

~Eckhart Tolle

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Hidden Message in the Water

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpnlCo5APrE

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Buddha says…

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we

think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow

that never leaves"

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Consciousness Can Be Measured!

Tool

CQ-Consciousness Quotient

Termed coined by Romanian professor of psychology-

Dr. Ovidiu Brazdua

www.consciousness-quotient.com

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Consciousness Quotient

Psychometric tool used to measure dimensions of consciousness

Measures the amount of access we have simultaneously to information from a vast field of possibility

High CQ = Broader perspective/higher level of awareness

Low CQ = Assess less information

Higher CQ enables greater consciousness and greater awareness and choice

No awareness…no choice!

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Six Dimensions

Physical – conscious of your body and physical elements in your environment

Emotional Mental – conscious of your feelings and any emotions

Spiritual – conscious of yourself as being part of a larger whole and your connection within it

Social/Relationship – conscious of human relationships and the People you connect with

Self-conscious/Self-awareness – consciousness of self; awareness of your self-awareness-of the observer who is doing the observing of yourself

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Nine sub-categories

Internal State Awareness - refers to the ability of being conscious specifically about the inner changes

Self-Reflectiveness - refers to the ability of being conscious in a reflective way about you own person

Mindfulness - refers to a way of looking at yourself and your environment in a non-judgmental way

Autonomy - refers to the degree of autonomy- the individualization of a person; in other words, the ability to function autonomous, without requiring external support

Personal Growth - refers tot the ability of being conscious about the evolutionary transformation one person goes through

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Nine sub-categories

Positive Relations with Others - is the ability of being conscious about inter-personal relationships.

Purpose in Life - refers to existence of a purpose in life. Purpose is the context of meaning within which one makes life choices

Verbal Expression - describes the ability of expressing the conscious content through verbal communication. The items are spread one in each main factors

Openness toward new experiences - refers to the ability of being conscious about new information; generally it is the ability of being open to any new things happening to one

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Peter Drucker…

“Every few hundred years in Western

history there occurs a sharp

transformation. Within a few short

decades, society – its worldview, its

basic values, its social and political

structures, its arts, its key institutions –

rearranges itself. . . We are currently

living through such a time”

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Pillars of Conscious Leadership

Purposeful

Responsible & Accountable

Intentional

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Grounding and Approach….

Conscious leadership is a conceptual framework that

is grounded in the sociocultural knowledge of

reciprocity, which allows leaders to perceive patterns

in the environment, see the interconnectivity of

multiple problems, and subscribe to a participatory

leadership style, which incorporates the idea of

shared responsibility and problem solving.

_Jones, 2012

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Leadership On A Continuum

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Attributes of a Conscious Leader

“You” are your greatest asset!

Embrace Your Authentic Self

Self-knowledge, Self-mastery and Self-

confidence

Purposeful and Intentional

Develop Active Listening Skills

Believe in Reciprocity

Capitalize on Community Wealth (Partnership

Mastery/ Communities of Practice)

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How Are Conscious Leaders Different?

Self-aware and less clouded by their identity. Thus, having the

freedom to be more flexible. Create rather than react and is a critical

thinker

Have personal power and focus on the leadership of "doing" rather

than "being." A conscious leader considers all the player in the

organization as they lead and act in a ways which supports the

balance of the whole

Are self-aware enough to know that they can always explore their

limitations further and as leaders, they set the tone for an

organizations of continual self-examination and evolution

Aware that they have access to broader and multiple sources of

information simultaneously

Open to dealing with things as they are, which implies a greater

capacity to influence situations and effect change

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So What Does It All Mean?

Understanding of organizations as networked systems that are

interconnected

Promote organizational learning, innovation, creativity and shared

leadership

Compassionate

Increased wisdom

Cooperative and collective

Understand the POWER of choice

Ability to guide change

Create opportunities for transformation and change

Tap into the collective awareness of the group

Building relationships/partnerships

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Organizations Who Practice

A More Conscious Leadership

GOOGLE

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES

THE CONTAINER STORE

ZAPPOS

PATAGONA

WHOLE FOODS

THE CONTAINER STORE

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Conscious Leadership Tool Kit

Conscious Leadership Framework

A Leadership Platform Statement

A Portfolio of Your Work

Leadership Action Plan (Leadership

Options, i.e. education, corporate,

non-profit)

Journal

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Final Thoughts….

Deconstruct

Reconstruct

Construct

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Questions?

“Women don’t want a divided life; they

recognize that career is not enough;

they want to be interconnected with

people. They want to keep growing

throughout their different lives, adjusting

as needed to different circumstances.

They want to live a “balanced” life”

_Jamila Aswad, 2013