Embodied Leadership
We are committed to helping your leaders role model the ‘new’ culture you want to evolve into. Leaders need to show, what you expect from everyone. Leaders own and apply the tools to make the employee journey exciting. They develop their people and hold them accountable. They enable their teams to instill winning routines that ultimately lead to unimaginable results. They develop themselves intellectually, emotionally and physically. And learn to lead others to a higher level of performance.
Leadership development
Approach
- Needs assessment with targetpopulation and their leaders
- Align Leadership Development with culture change initiatives
- Design real life challenges, out of context experiences & in context skill labs (70-20-10)
- Leaders teaching leaders:building internal capability
- Practical assignments to apply leadership learnings in day-to-day work
Benefits
- Leadership capability which accelerates personal and organizational growth
- Growth of internal LD capability& supporting the culture changes required
- Aligned with up-to-date HR policies, processes & systems
- Leadership from within through embodied work
- Leadership skills which will beapplied today
Courageous Integrity conversations
Approach
- Indicate the potential for de-escalation among all people drawn into the drama triangle.
- De-escalate the conflict through courageous conversations and a neutral executive summary of the conflict.
- Grow a habit of self-reflection and team reflection among everyone involved.
- Establish a clear route towards development for the team and all individuals.
- Inspire the rest of the organization to create stronger relationships through dealing with conflict and repair.
“We can change our lives, one conversation at a time”
- Susan Scott
Example
- Report of cross-border behavior
- Courageous conversation with alleged perpetrator, victim, and bystanders
- 360 interviews & questionnaire among 21 trusted, neutral, and difficult relationships
- Report: Quality of working relationships with recovery process advice
- Individual coaching trajectory
- Recovery conversations between teams: Expressing needs, setting boundaries, saying sorry, asking for and giving help
Executive coaching
Once you have determined that your learning goals include increasing yourself awareness, getting a better understanding of your emotional make up and increasing your leadership impact, executive coaching is the most personal and tailored way to address these goals.
Opire has a network of qualified executive coaches who will be glad to explore your development needs and goals. We now know from research on the results of coaching that the match between coach and coachee is crucial. That is why we have put a rigorous process in place to come to a good match:
Approach
- Brief exploration of your development needs an objectives.
- Introduction to two coaches that likely match who you are and these needs.
- Your choice of your executive coach.
- Joint write-up of your development goals in the coaching contract.
- Your trajectory of 5-7 coaching sessions over a period of 3 - 5 months starts.
- You monitor your progress with your coach during every session.
- Coaches draw working methods from their extensive experience such as: coaching dialogue using: psychometrics, voice dialogue, child-adult- elderly dynamics, triad conversations with your manager, emotional life story and connected breathwork amongst others. Each coach will have their own skill and expertise with different working methods.
“Leaders who understand their emotional make up, show resiliency and respond mindful in stressful situations.”
Greater physical self-awareness allows us to show up authentically and adapt as a leader. Our embodied work aligns head, hearts and hands. Through embodied work, you grow your personal leadership. We use:
- Connected breathwork
- Martial arts
- Meditation & mindfulness
- Shadow- & Energy work
- Constellations
Embodied work shines light on blockages, blind spots, patterns of behavior and (un)helpful habits. Our body never lies, contrary to our mind. In your physical and emotional responses, you may find valuable insights clearer and faster than through long conversations. This awareness is the start of learning healthier habits and responses.
“Being human is messy and chaotic’’
Embodiment means embodying, or – accepting – all that is: our qualities and our shadow sides, our masculine - and our feminine parts. Our inspiring values and our muddy day-to-day reality. One is not better than the other. Awareness and embodiment of all that is, leads to authenticity, acceptance, forgiveness, compassion and increased leadership impact.
Connected breathwork
You've been doing it since birth: breathing. You don't have to do anything for it. It happens naturally. You can learn a lot from your breathing pattern. A connected breathing session is a magical journey along the source of your life: your breath. Your breath is honest about what is alive in you right now. It brings you directly to the source of, for instance: your need for control, your need to be loved and recognized, your perfectionism or hard work. Connected breathing creates space to change your fundamental beliefs and judgments, understand your emotional triggers and discharge emotions.
“You breathe the way you live.”
