131 – Using Yoga Practice and Principles for Awake Leadership with Hilary Grosskopf

Hilary Grosskopf is a leadership strategist, writer, yoga teacher, and founder of Awake Leadership Solutions. She helps leaders build the teams of their dreams, reach their objectives, and strengthen their leadership skills. She is the author of Awake Leadership: A System for Leading with Clarity and Creativity as well as Awake Ethics: A System for Aligning Your Actions with Your Core Intentions.

Hilary Grosskopf

Top Takeaways: Using Yoga Practice and Principles for Awake Leadership with Hilary Grosskopf

  • Create a balance between your work life and your life outside of work
  • Awake Leadership and Awake Ethics – yoga philosophy can be brought into the structured competitive business space to motivate team members
  • Mindful thinking – intentional leadership – clarity of goals within business
  • Be in alignment with your purpose – don’t go through the motions in your work
  • Integration and connectedness – don’t just be reactive but understand why you do what you do
  • Step back and see clearly your goal BEFORE taking action
  • Seven vitals for Awake Leadership – Vision, support, structure, tools, context, inspiration, and freedom
    • Vision – the foundation for successful leadership of a team
    • Support – workspace and work environment that fuels your best work, people, culture, communication, schedule
    • Context – knowledge and understanding of the overall organization outside of your immediate team – company network, partners, upper management – set up opportunity for your team to learn about the company
    • Freedom – responsibility helps us be free – kites have a freedom to move but the string keeps it grounded – if you cut the string the kite lacks freedom or foundation – connects back to the vision
  • Experience whether directly related or ancillary related can help you in your career even though many things in your life may seem dissimilar
  • Patience, Persistence and Contentment to become the leader you want to be

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Learning From Leaders: 

Current Book: Brand Identity Breakthrough: How to Craft Your Company’s Unique Story to Make Your Products Irresistible by Gregory V. Diehl

Leadership Superpower: Clarity – strip away complexity

Motivational Mantra:

[shareable cite=”Tony Robbins”]Where focus goes, energy flows[/shareable]

Book Most Often Gifted: How Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service by Ram Dass

Additional Items Mentioned

Awake Ethics: A system for aligning your actions with your core intentions by Hilary Grosskopf

Awake Leadership: A system for leading with clarity and creativity by Hilary Jane Grosskopf

Awake Leadership, won as a finalist in the 2019 National Indie Excellence Awards in the Leadership category. More info here: https://www.indieexcellence.com/13thannualfinalists

Hilary’s website: awakeleadershipsolutions.com

 

About the author

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