A quiz. What do these leadership behaviors have in common?

Complaining about back-to-back meetings. Texting while leading a team meeting. Doing emails while on mute on a conference call. Arriving unprepared for business meetings. Avoiding performance feedback discussions.  

Answer: They are all symptoms of half-absent leadership. Recognize any of them?

Half-absent leaders are present in body, but much of their mind, and almost all of their spirit, are absent. They skate across the surface of the day, often lurking in the shadows of accountability. They struggle to be inspired by the deeper purpose of their work. Feeling trapped and unfulfilled, many such leaders are simply holding on.

How to move from half-absent to the calm, confident, connected power of fully-present? Not by treating the symptoms but by (re)building the spiritual connection. This means learning to use new kinds of management tools that reach hearts and minds amidst all the daily pressure. I mean practical thinking and leading techniques that create conversations in business language that also engage the spiritual core. The shift in attitude and performance can be amazing.

This week when you share a hope, have a request, see someone's strength, engage in a conversation, attend a conference call, run a team meeting, build a strategy, interact with a customer, interview for a job, .........inspire others by first inspiring yourself to be a fully-present leader.

The Fully-Present Leader is our 2012 event theme. In North America you will discover the tools at Princeton Theological Seminary on May 6 and 7, and in Europe at Worth Abbey, UK from September 21 to 23. 

Stephen
ANE = Calm, Confident, Connected Leadership