Ruth explains in fifteen minutes why working via the body is a powerful way to develop your leadership (executive) presence.
Why Optimal Team Performance Depends on Developing Somatic Intelligence
As ongoing research emerges looking more closely at how human beings perceive, think and act we are learning that these systems - of perception, thought, decision-making, action - are utterly interconnected with our felt (embodied) experience.
Writers, researchers and trainers leading the field of organizational health and leadership are putting the pieces together for how these new understandings inform and enhance team and leadership development. One of the bold new statements emerging is that not only do we need to consider and include our emotional selves in these processes but that the sensory component of feeling (AKA somatic intelligence) is a key part of this. Developing it can support you and your team to be in more enjoyable, functional (profitable) states more of the time.
Three Reasons Why Embodiment is Essential to Great Leadership
It’s a valid question… How the hell does being more embodied make you a better leader? Does being in your body really help you get better results from yourself and/or your team?
This is a question I am also continually asking myself as I observe the process and results of bringing body-based tools to leaders and aspiring leaders. How is it that these tools support their transition into better supporting themselves and their teams?
Here are my insights so far…
