As a leader, what can you learn from your ‘blindspots’?

‘Accessing’ your blindspots gives you many gifts for your leadership development, and helps you build a better tomorrow.

This was shared at the Coaches Rising 2020 Summit through a curated session with Otto Scharmer, Amy Elizabeth Fox and Frederic Laloux. Powerful.

Here are the key tips and questions for leaders who are curious in accessing their blindspots:

• Access your ignorance – your not knowing… Don’t be afraid. Use it as a lens.
• Access your discomfort and vulnerability – lean into what you are least comfortable with.
• Think about your adaptation. How am I seeding the new? Letting go and burning the old? Unfreezing spaces in my mind that hinder insights from different perspectives?
• Listen within. What is life demanding of me? See the bigger forces at work and align with what has been called for. Have faith you are on the path – focus on your own voice – rather than succumb to the noise of others.
• Where are you deliberately showing up that is uncomfortable for you? Where are you showing up with people who are not like you? Who do not work in your field? Who do not hold your same beliefs?

You have blindspots that limit your ability to see. Practice the muscles of empathy and perspective. When you enter into experiences that shift your insights and relationships, it helps shift our will to act differently.