S4-Ep8: How Your Personal Practices Make You an Exceptional Leader, According to Kathryn Goldman Schuyler

Guest: Kathryn Goldman Schuyler, Ph.D.

From fostering smiles in the office to mindfulness, your personal practices have a major effect on your team – and your success. In fact, what you do as a person – not just as a leader – can ripple through your organization.

 

That’s one major takeaway from Dr. Kathryn Goldman Schuyler in this episode. She’s conducted extensive research on “waking up at work” – a greater awareness of workplace systems and how your actions affect them. Having a sense of humor, spending time outdoors, journaling, meditation: they can all boost positivity and morale in your team, and that boosts productivity and engagement in the process.

Here's what Kathryn and Maureen cover:

1. How personal practices impact your professional growth and leadership effectiveness;
2. The many ways journaling, walking, and “mindful moments” unlock your full potential in the workplace; and
3. How to inspire and motivate your team with a sense of humor and generally boosting joy at work.

 

Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/.

 

Other episodes you'll enjoy:

• Empathy, Dialogue, & a Good Mood: An Ambassador Reveals What Leaders Need in Crisis with Ambassador Thomas Greminger
• Boosting Workplace Well-Being with Cameron Stockdale
• Joy at Work! with Roxanne Brown & Edward Cook

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RESOURCES:  

Learn more about Kathryn’s work on her website: https://coherentchange.com/.

 

Kathryn’s book, Creative Social Change: Leadership for a Healthy World is in paperback on Amazon at https://amzn.to/4hdsMZ7.

 

Her book on leadership and Tibetan Buddhism she referenced is Inner Peace – Global Impact: Tibetan Buddhism, Leadership, and Work. The paperback is available at https://amzn.to/4hamWr8; the Kindle version is https://amzn.to/40wJq0o.

 

Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here. 

 

Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI, or check out the Kindle version at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 . The audiobook version is now available at  https://amzn.to/4dTCleZ.

 

Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here. 

 

Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:

• To Stop a Tyrant by Ira Chaleff, on how leaders become tyrants and their types of followers, is in hardback on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3W5XDys and on Kindle at https://amzn.to/420Zvwc. An audiobook edition is coming soon.
• Take Ba