Future Business Leaders

If I say 'successful business leader', think about a picture that instantly forms in your head. What's the stereotype? Do you still see a suited, tall, heterosexual, white, man sitting behind a oaken, boardroom table? Yes? Well, it's time for an update!!

Our present day leaders are a much wider diversity - different genders (Anita Roddick, Oprah Winfrey, Irene Rosenfeld), ability (David Blunket, Stephen Hawkins), sexual orientation (Johanna Sigurdardottir, Charles Allen), ethnicity (Barack Obama, James Caan), faith groups (Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu), ages (Mathew McCauley, Cameron Johnson) and all the rest.

As we begin to norm the physical perceptions of what makes a powerful leader it's freeing up leaders themselves to focus solely on talent and delivering excellence. So how are the most progressive leaders equipping themselves to keep ahead today? By engaging in:

Enlightened thinking: it's getting to be common knowledge that, proven in metaphysics, what you think about expands. Leaders with a can-do, creative, inspired mind are attracting the most diverse and exciting teams and consequently delivering off-the-chart results.

Responsibility: the blame culture is over. Leaders who give permission to teams to push the boundaries and learn boldly from mistakes are the ones with the future in their hands. This mindset gets rid of limiting thinking fast and attracts success faster and on more levels than just financial. With a gifted and responsible leader - all experience is good experience.

Awareness: Future Business Leaders know that success is no longer only about body and mind - about physical prowess and intellect. Today it includes big developments in heart and soul too - emotional intelligence and spiritual connection. Leaders in the know are confident to hold a vision without pushing for the 'how'; they're trusting that challenges have a purpose that's bigger than the bottom line; and allowing of difference in ideas, strategies, works styles, and contribution.

These 3 characteristics contribute to success with soul. Something rich, meaningful and future-proof for workforces and the customers they serve. Integrating soul in a corporation is more than just progress - this is quantum leap territory.

Who's for jumping?

Sporting links to Business Success

Since the beginning of 2011 I've been upping the stakes on the fitness front - more swimming, more tennis, more detoxing. And it's great. I feel energised, positive and focussed to a much higher level than when I'm desk-bound all day. Last week my swim partner and I changed the timing of our training session. We went from 6.30am (a proper discipline for me - especially when it's still dark outside) to 12.15am. I had thought we would meet, as usual in the foyer of the swimming pool, however, I quickly realised that he'd arrived early and had just got started. By the time I joined him in the pool he was 16 lengths ahead! A significant lead when we were only doing 50 lengths total that day. So, no time to delay, I jumped in and got started.

My first 5 lengths were filled with thoughts of 'got to swim faster, got to catch up'. And so I pushed myself and really felt the burn as I focussed on lapping him every 10 lengths instead of my usual every 14. After about 10 minutes I began to think, 'you know, I'm focussing on the wrong goal. It's unreasonable to be referencing myself against a person who started 16 lengths ahead of me. I should be concentrating on my style, my breathing, completing my goal and achieving a personal best.' And this got me thinking about Business Success .Sometimes the people whose businesses have been established longer and appear to run so effectively inspire me to move forward faster and to innovate. And sometimes, their persistent emails promoting their next teleclass, next program and next fool-proof system drive me to lose my sense of pride in my own achievements and my own game. Experience is good, and knowledge is valuable, but it's a positive and persistent attitude that will keep us driving our business success forward. It's your journey, your vision and your race with your own expectations. Me, I've resolved to remind myself often that my vision is unique to me and that a daily personal best is a pretty big victory.

Jennifer Broadley is the Success with Soul Coach. She works with corporate future business leaders and successful women entrepreneurs. She specialises in CEO coaching, prosperity coaching and using the law of attraction. She coaches, speaks, writes and runs seminars about personal, business and global raised awareness.

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