Conscious Leadership In Organizational Culture

“Conscious leadership puts the leader as a follower and allows the leader to be a person they would want to follow. Stakeholder orientation shows that the organization cares about their supports and employees and that will bring a return so great an organization can thrive in profits. Conscious culture creates values that the organization upholds in return people are prone to support an organization that share similar values as them. And finally higher purpose gives people outlook upon the future on what the ultimate goal of the organization is and how it can benefit them.” According to Mackey and Sisodia (2013), Conscious Businesses create more value, are more successful, are more ethical, and are better place to work for. These characteristics …show more content…
It is important a business uphold these characteristics for a bigger return from employees and consumers. In my previous class we spoke of servant leadership, which is the model Southwest Airlines instill in their company. This philosophy puts the employees and customers first to bring a bigger return to shareholders.
By definition of conscious leadership is putting a leader as a follower, therefore the leader must understand themselves in how they would want their followers to exhibit themselves. Emotional intelligence (EI) is very important in self-leadership. Emotional intelligence is the ability to manage oneself and one’s relationship in a mature and constructive way. The definition shows that it is one’s self ability to lead and manage their life and goals. In order to manage your own life goals, one must follow the importance of the four dimensions of EI (self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management). Self-awareness allows one to understand their strength and weaknesses in managing themselves. If one is not sure of their weaknesses their strengths are non-existent. I say this because if you don’t know what areas you need to …show more content…
We all have ideas of the type of people we “think” we are, but when you take an assessment full of questions and see your results you get an overall view of the person you are. For personal and professional reasons this assessment has helped me determined which direction I can go as a person and as a leader. It really answered many questions I had about myself and why I think the way I do and act the way I do. As stated in prior in my paper understanding myself as a leader is the key to becoming an effective leader. The assessments are mere frameworks to follow when leading my team. The results of the assessments explained my attitude and why I have the values I have. With these results it will be the framework of how I live life and lead a team of people. I understand who I am, so therefore I can see what I expect from my