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We often hear from graduates about the ways their life changes after doing LBX. We also hear about promotions, business expansion, and the positive effect of these changes on their teams, colleagues and clients. Here's an infographic outlining the advantages of LBX for participants AND for the company sponsoring them.  Where the rubber meets the road - bringing LBX to work One of my favorite moments in working with Celine was when she said, "I'm feeling so much more connected to people at work, and they're responding to me differently, I can see it. I had no idea it could be this easy to lead a team and have fun doing it!"
Celine was a manager at a mid-sized manufacturing company, who had been stripped of her leadership role and was on the verge of leaving her job when we first met. Using the Aurum Method tools from LBX, she broke out of the perfectionism and anxiety that had been driving her. She 'loosened up', shared more of her humanity and built relationships, and stepped into her true capacities and vision as a leader. She is now one of the top leaders on the team, creating enormous value and efficiency for the company. Her CEO is thrilled, and she's planning a long-term career in her organization. Stories like this are not unusual. Graduates often celebrate with us their new bold ventures, the greater ease and flow on their team, or financial opportunities that suddenly appear. Mick became better at handling challenging clients and closed a huge contract for his contracting company; Beatrice became the lead for an international group of consultants rolling out a global launch, while birthing a creative project of her own that had been years in the making; Mia expanded her theater group and is mentoring a new generation of creative directors in multiple cities, even as she transformed her marriage and family life. Coming out of LBX, people are more ready and willing to step up and be the leaders they are meant to be. They bring more of themselves to every aspect of life, and over time this has an empowering, expansive effect in all dimensions. If you want to know more about ways LBX could support the leaders in your organization, let's talk. Click the button below to set up a brief chat with Deepika, co-creator of LBX.  Happy Thanksgiving!
As I watch the leaves change color and crunch my way through the piles of leaves all around, I am reminded of an essential aspect of leadership - knowing when to let go and when to say no. We need to drop things that constrain and hold us back in order to make space for something new to grow. It requires inner clarity to discern what we need to say NO to, to ask ourselves -- what are we ready to stop tolerating, stop making excuses for, stop putting energy into, stop withholding, stop believing, stop holding on to…? As we let those things die off and drop away, we gain time, energy and capacity to turn our attention to what is growing in our life - to what we truly want to create in our professional life, in our business, in our relationships and our own hearts. Now we can more forward and build what is next for us. At Aurum, we teach about leading from our True Self, a natural state of authenticity, clarity and power. People at LBX often get very clear about their life and their projects - what needs to go, and what needs to grow. I invite you into this inquiry this Thanksgiving, and I’d love to hear what you discover. Share your insights on our blog. To kick off the new year with a potent process of reclaiming your True Self in an amazing community of people committed to doing the same, join us in San Diego! Our next LBX is Jan 17-20th, 2019, at a lovely hotel by the ocean in beautiful Solana Beach. Get $500 off with our early bird offer, and please share with friends. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving, Deepika  At Aurum we are dedicated to bringing authenticity, compassion and courage into leadership. The LBX program brings personal and leadership development together, teaching leaders to be human and humans to be leaders.
Being a leaders is not a strategy, a technique or trick. Being a leader is a way of being in the world. When you are aligned, congruent and embodying the fullness of who you are, you become a natural leader. There are plenty of books and training manuals full of methods and strategies for leaders and managers. At Aurum, however, we believe that in fact, we all already have the wisdom, clarity and strength we need - we’ve merely forgotten how to access those capacities. Without this fundamental connection, we end up using strategies and technique to hide from ourselves, and thus miss out on the immeasurable treasures we carry inside. Our approach at LBX is to remember the way back home. We see again and again that when people regain the keys to their inner kingdom, they light up with so much effortless power, clarity, self-worth and joy. Then they can go ahead and do what they are meant to do in this world -- no manual required!  At Aurum we are dedicated to bringing authenticity, compassion and courage into leadership. The LBX program brings personal and leadership development together, teaching leaders to be human and humans to be leaders.
If we don’t recognize what is really going on, we don’t have any choice or agency about it. Self-honesty is not about shame, guilt or our inner critic having a field day with us. It’s about being honest and real, including those aspects of ourselves or our lives that we don’t like. Self-compassion creates an atmosphere of human kindness that allows us to be honest. Self-compassion isn’t a free pass or shrugging off our mistakes -- it’s acknowledging that as human beings we are all doing the best we can. Compassion reminds us of the broader arc of growth and development, even when things are a mess. As leaders, we are responsible for our actions and the impact they have. We inevitably make mistakes, stumble, impact others with our blind spots and step on people’s toes. When we are both compassionate and honest in these moments, we actually have the opportunity to grow from these challenges. True leaders want to know what their blind spots are. When we know our own blind spots, we can harness the power of self-awareness and understand the real impact we are having in our lives. Seeking to understand this impact can lead us to a kind of self-reflection that inevitably requires self-compassion. Self-awareness without self-compassion rarely leads to growth - it most often leads to self-criticism. Coupling self-honesty with self-compassion gives us the power to see ourselves clearly, make changes and make a strong and positive impact in this world. At LBX: Leadership Breakthrough Training we make space to see and feel the impact we’re having on others and our own life when we operate from outdated strategies and habits. This opens the door to a new way of showing up. At LBX we get real-time experience operating from our resilient, whole, resourced self -- and getting dramatically better results.  This is the first in a series of blogs based on the 16 principles of Aurum Leadership and the LBX program. At Aurum we are dedicated to bringing authenticity, compassion and courage into leadership. The LBX program brings personal and leadership development together, teaching leaders to be human and humans to be leaders.
Aurum Principle #2: My unhealthy ways of being are adaptations I made to protect myself and get the love I needed. Ultimately, these adaptations don't achieve those things, but rather, separate me from myself. Our adaptations have many different names: The Internal Chatter, The Monkey Mind, The Inner Board of Directors. These adaptations are all ways we use to cope with life. These adaptations are buffers we use to keep us ‘safe’. In reality, these committees of fractured parts keep us in struggle and making a mess of our lives. We take these ‘safety habits’ and live our lives as if every current situation is going to be just like a past, familiar experience. We rely on these adapted behaviors to get us through another situation, hopefully unscathed. No guilt here. No shame here. These behaviors and strategies are our blind spots. We can’t see them. We are blind to them until we awaken to the truth of who we are, and can clearly see who we’ve been is a collection of behaviors, thoughts, and judgements that we have used to protect ourselves and get the love and acceptance we need. If we choose to remain in this padded, defended state, it will keep us from connecting with the truth of who we are. The resilient, worthy, connected, open, whole, curious, calm, solid person we were born to be. It will keep us operating from the same disconnected, self-absorbed self that leads from a place of fear, rather than from a place of personal empowerment and mindfulness. At LBX: Leadership Breakthrough Training we make space to see and feel the impact we’re having on others and our own life when we operate from this old, habitual and often distorted way of being. This awareness opens the door to a new way of showing up. At LBX we get real-time experience operating from our resilient, whole, resourced self. We experience getting dramatically better results and the powerful impact we have when we show up with all of who we are. When we know who we are and are connected to the depth of wisdom, clarity and passion within us, it becomes effortless to connect with and inspire greatness in others while moving towards an inspired vision. Susan Jentzsch Aurum Leadership Coach Business Strategist  At Aurum we are dedicated to bringing authenticity, compassion and courage into leadership. The LBX program brings personal and leadership development together, teaching leaders to be human and humans to be leaders.
Lady Antebellum sings in Need You Now, “Guess I’d rather hurt than feel nothing at all”. In granting ourselves permission to feel everything – hurt, sadness, joy, fulfillment – we bring the experience of being human to life. So often we deny our bodies the right to express what is really going on inside of us. We’re told not to cry. We’re told not to express anger. We’re told to be tough and avoid vulnerability at all costs. But the reality is, we can’t avoid feelings if we are to be truly alive. How can we lead a team of people from the inside out, if we have no idea how to be with our insides? Often times we learn to shut down our internal wisdom and only focus on our thoughts. We lean to our intellect to tell us how to handle difficult situations. We lean on the mind to get us out of hot water with the boss. We lean on the mind to fire up excuses for why we did or didn’t do something. And all the while, our internal wisdom lays dormant, and is buried deep under past resentments, upsets, angers, hurts. We get stuck in our head-space totally disconnected from our heart and our aliveness, wondering why life feels so flat and unsatisfying. In order to access that powerful and wise knowing within us, we need to explore our bodies and move through these stuck emotional layers. Our body is the vehicle for expressing and moving all the stuff we’ve brilliantly buried for years, and when it comes alive, the fullness of who we are comes to life. We are able to lead with compassion and empathy; we are able to manage our teams through good times and bad; we effortlessly connect and elevate everyone around us. When we embody our inherent value and don't have to compete, we can complement each other and create a team that is far more efficient, cohesive and driven to contribute. When you lead a team of individuals who function with integrity and authenticity, productivity soars – and nothing is impossible! At LBX: Leadership Breakthrough Training we make space to feel and hear our internal body wisdom, and access our bodies in a way that enables us to experience the fullness of who we really are. When we know this wholeness in our blood and bones, we can’t lose it. We show up differently -- and getting dramatically better results. |
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February 2019
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