Ep 49. Another Set Of Lenses

"Why is anyone the richer for even 30 seconds spent with me?" This simple and thought-provoking question will help you define the value you add to other people's lives and comes from my podcast guest and leadership expert, Steve Hall, who is often described as a deep thinker and inspirational storyteller.

Steve believes in the extraordinary potential of human energy and how it is the key to high performance at all levels.  It is this work which gives him his reason for being. He is committed to helping people shift their perceptions and paradigms about the world and each other by using another set of lenses. 

Steve has a passion for immersive leadership work, which started with education and training company I Will Not Complain, in China and The Covey Leadership Centre in the US. He was part of bringing the Covey franchise to Africa. Has run hundreds of workshops all over the world, helping individuals, teams and organisations to become more effective in the lives they lead and in their dynamics towards one another. He as been a partner in Lead with Humanity for the last 10 years and has designed and delivered more than 50 leadership weeks across the African continent.

This podcast covers:

• How our conditional thinking limits us
• Thinking paradigms and how they influence our behaviour
• How our thinking polarities are neither right nor wrong - they co-exist like breathing in and out, but they are the root cause of our responses and behaviour.
• The six blue pictures of an expansive and friendly world filled with possibility and opportunity and a disconnected world.The six red pictures of a small, finite, unfriendly
• How to take responsibility for your own human energy battery
• The importance of leading yourself and others

A few quotes from Steve Hall:

"I don't remember who said it, but I'm sure it's been said by many people that the shortest distance between two people is a story. The minute I get to know your story, and you get to know my story, we reduce complexities. We reduce the picture that some of us are better than others. We learn about the challenges that other people have been through and continue to go through. And the minute I've got that and I've got that curiosity, surely then we become closer together. Surely it means that we can in fact, work more cooperatively together and celebrate the fact that each of us comes from a very different place."

"If I've constantly got to play power over people using manipulation and coercion, it's an expensive process. It really is draining on our batteries."

"I think it is our responsibility to act in the moment, to act for what's good, to see life through that other set of lenses and say, I wonder if my action now might have recurring or repercussion events down the line."