Leading with Humility
Thu, May 4, 2023
10:30 AM
to
12:00 PM
United States / Eastern
Join other business leaders online in this open, participatory Bohm Dialogue to explore HUMILITY in leadership.
How does humility elevate leadership?
What are the characteristics and practices of humble leaders?
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. - Laozi |
While we dialogue about power and possibilities of humility, using a Bohm Dialogue methodology, we'll pay attention to noticing and building capacity for respecting. To open spaces for authentic, connected Dialogue, respect is foundational. In a time when employee trust and engagement at work is at an all-time low, the practice of respect is one of the key values that could change it. How does humility relate to respect? Let's have a look at our own relationship to humility and respect in this Dialogue!
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Participants are invited to agree to 'practices' for the Dialogue. It is a 'practice', because most people are not skilled in Dialogue and fall into old polarizing habits or ineffective communication patterns. In open Dialogue participants are invited to develop new healthier communication skills, but at times will get off track, hopefully notice this, and come back into the practice. For example, consider the practice of meditation, where your mind may spin off into thinking until you notice this and pull yourself back into watching your breath. A summary of the four Bohm Dialogue practices are:
1. SUSPENDING: Letting go of assumptions, beliefs or certainty about things and opening up to other possibilities, viewpoints, experiences or ideas. This is not about convincing others of your views, but with curiosity, attempting to connect and understand them, and in the process, knowing yourself too.
2. RESPECTING: Seeing and respecting the humanity in others and relating with empathy and compassion to their life journey. By seeing them, you may see yourself more clearly too.
3. VOICING: Discovering your authentic voice and trusting it. This is not about saying something clever or wise. It is about noticing the call within you to speak, or to just respectfully listen and notice that others might be saying exactly what you wanted to say. Speak about only one important idea at a time, rather than talking about all the run-on thoughts arising in you. Less is more. If you or someone is dominating the conversation, notice this and find a way to come back into balanced dialogue.
4. LISTENING: Listen with all your senses and intuition, to the whole person behind the words. You will be listening far more than speaking. With curiosity, hear the tone, cadence, pitch, pauses, movements, meaning, energy, emotions, values and intentions of the speakers. Be present to the beauty and richness of the silent moments too.
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To respect means that you accept others for whom they really are, even when they are different from you, or you don't agree with them. In the Bohm Dialogue practice of respecting:
- We are invited to see beyond our differences and respect the core humanity in others.
- We practice relating with empathy and compassion to the life journey of others.
- In the practice of seeing, hearing and accepting others, we open up the opportunity to find shared meaning and harmony.
- We create a safer, more trusting space to set aside differences, and open up the conversation for higher learning and contribution.
- People feel valued and thus are more present, confident and engaged.