Cultivating a Leadership Ecosystem: Nurturing Growth Through Patience and Trust
Introduction: Laurent discusses the importance of creating and developing a leadership ecosystem and the parallels to building trust in relationships.
Changing perspectives: The process of adapting our beliefs and understanding to cultivate personal growth.
Building relationships: The significance of patience and observation in establishing trust with others, including young children.
The personal development industry: Exploring the assumption that change is easy or difficult and the role of leadership ecosystems in this context.
Transcript
Hi, this is Laurent.
Speaker:Why does it matter to talk about the creation and development
Speaker:of a leadership ecosystem?
Speaker:It matters because we are always the fruit of an ecosystem.
Speaker:There is no other way to look at it.
Speaker:There is this belief that we exist out in a vacuum, and we are raised and
Speaker:educated, and somehow underneath that belief or assumption is hypothesis, which
Speaker:we rarely articulate, which is saying that we have to work on ourselves as if
Speaker:we were working in the lab and use our intelligence and our muscles and emotion
Speaker:better to respond to what's available to us in the environment we belong to.
Speaker:The funny thing is and we are both creator and the fruit of that environment
Speaker:at all times, and therefore, when we hope to create, when we work towards
Speaker:creating moments of joy through sharing some expertise all their achievement
Speaker:by completing the project to goal of developing an organization or having
Speaker:a family, or whatever goal seems to be driving and inviting our energy, our
Speaker:stamina, and our our problem- solving mind, all those goals are also the
Speaker:fruit of the environment we're in, so our conditioning is in a few words.
Speaker:But I sometime read in books or on social media and listen in conversation.
Speaker:The shortcut is not simply to say that there is a conditioning.
Speaker:It's not about creating a shortcut or things that have a conditioning
Speaker:It's about actually realizing and experiencing the conditioning of a
Speaker:boundary, a definitive limit, because it's simply a boundary, that we're
Speaker:invited not to pay attention to a little bit, like the fishing water.
Speaker:And when we are realizing conceptually that there are some boundaries
Speaker:created by our education or familiar environment, how we are born in the
Speaker:family, whether we are the elders or the youngest, and all of that kind
Speaker:of thing, and the degree of safety and happiness available at the time.
Speaker:We are, when we are working on ourselves, we are often discounting
Speaker:the influence of the environment, now we are working from where are we are
Speaker:leveraging to expand our awareness
Speaker:and it's not as simple as that to understand all this, I think and
Speaker:that's been difficult for me.
Speaker:It is when we're working on ourselves, developing leadership, or working in our
Speaker:personal lives and personal development.
Speaker:It is about taking charge of our relationship with our environment as
Speaker:a partner, and a teacher to help us work or learn what needs to be learned
Speaker:in order to change that relationship.
Speaker:So it's a kind of chicken and egg at all times sort of question.
Speaker:The more aware I am, the more I'm able to appreciate what's around me,
Speaker:not as a limitation but simply as an opportunity to be considered and an
Speaker:invitation to respond, rather than something to react to consciously.
Speaker:One thing --some development or some change, or a new relationship with
Speaker:your environment --is one thing.
Speaker:But trying to discount your environment or reset your environment when we go
Speaker:into the change is taking a shortcut, which is not accessible because it's
Speaker:not available, except when we go on what's called a retreat, when you're
Speaker:retreating somewhere in those isolated environments, or workshop for many days,
Speaker:or going to some intensive training where we are redrawn from a daily
Speaker:environment to develop new understanding, new awareness, and new behaviors with
Speaker:enough momentum we can apply them to environment we are coming from.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:And also, none of this is new to you.
Speaker:I'm wondering how much of this you take into consideration when you're
Speaker:working on yourself, let's say with your coach, or when you're trying
Speaker:to develop your leadership, because only when we start to realize that
Speaker:we can change our environment, by changing our relationship, with then
Speaker:now our relationship is changing.
Speaker:It's a paradoxical, almost ironic way of looking at it, where I cannot change my
Speaker:relationship environment until I change my relationship with it, and therefore
Speaker:change my relationship with myself.
Speaker:But when you look at it, when we take the time to look at it, we realize
Speaker:that actually it's the only way.
Speaker:False things to change are when I managed to change my perspective
Speaker:on what they used to believe and what perspective I used to have.
Speaker:It's when I don't defy as or really small and tiny sliver access to
Speaker:different sort of light or different states or sort of form or design,
Speaker:which is allowing me, if I'm patient enough to develop new understanding
Speaker:to develop new relationships, and if I practice and experiment enough,
Speaker:I will then be able to develop confidence and trust in a relationship.
Speaker:A little bit like when you are trying to engage in a conversation with a very
Speaker:young child whom you've never met and who is not going to give you his or her trust
Speaker:automatically when they're frightened.
Speaker:They're going to take the time to observe you, but at the beginning, It's
Speaker:going to be very tight, very resisting, and very tense most of them, and
Speaker:that's the same thing with ourselves.
Speaker:Access to new prospectives requires time and patience, and appreciation.
Speaker:False prospective in so that it can relax and welcome us into
Speaker:what's hiding behind the tension.
Speaker:Those are some of the reasons why I believe it's important to invest
Speaker:in the development of a personal development leadership ecosystem.
Speaker:We talk a lot about this development, which is generating a complete industry
Speaker:of training and development, learning and development, is resting on an
Speaker:assumption, which is rarely discussed because we often talk about how
Speaker:easy or difficult it is to change.
