MY APPROACH
The Human Factor: Living and leading from the Core
Culture creates performance.
Humans create culture.
The single most important thing for any changemaker to understand is the human factor - the paradox of how we are each different and what makes us all the same - in other words, what makes us ALL tick.
If you want others to follow, as a leader you need to model the way.
When it comes to organisational change and growth, it is a simple fact that organisations are made up of human beings.
In a study of corporate culture and performance, organisations that paid deliberate attention to the internal environment ie: leading the desired culture had a ten-fold growth in revenue, employees, stock price and net income over those that didn’t.
To ensure real results and sustainable change in your outer game - you need to pay attention to your inner game - because that is the agent of change. A thriving Culture is created from the inside out.
When you align your inner game to the core your true essence - you discover the source of true success.
To take care of the human factor we need our leaders to value humanity, heart and wisdom.
This shift will require empowering and valuing the Feminine energetic to balance the Masculine energetic in business. We don’t mean gender - we mean energies.
We all have both. Just like a battery has a positive (anode) and negative (cathode) to create electricity - we need to find this balance internally within ourselves, as well as with others. To achieve sustainable success we need the balancing dance of polarity or union of these energies.
A bird cannot fly with one wing.
Elizabeth’s work moves away from gender politics and any baggage associated with the words Masculine and Feminine, to simply call these energies:
Headpower - focus on achieving the goal with clarity and confidence
Heartpower - focus on serving the whole with connection and creativity
We all have both of these aspects (although we naturally lean towards our natural preference). Both are good. Both are powerful. Both are valuable. Both are necessary.
Both the head and the heart are needed for balance.
Many business leaders - especially women often feel they have to constantly compete, cover up their humanity, suppress feelings, intuition or instincts or try to be a version of themselves that they think they should be to succeed. This seems necessary in what can feel like a dog-eat-dog world that prizes what is measurable over what is harder to measure, yet equally matters for humans. And yet…
“Not everything that can be counted, counts."
- William Bruce Cameron
We are human. Whether we consciously remember and account for this or not - we are all a part of nature and work more like trees (ebb and flow) than washing machines (push a button: go). We too need care and tending to, listening to what is the natural flow and our deeper intuitions.
Elizabeth enables leaders to empower themselves to align with their natural Heartpower and lead with humanity, heart and wisdom; achieving their goals with clarity and confidence.
Elizabeth’s mentoring and coaching are based on the philosophy of breakthrough performance and the fundamental principles of how the mind works.
She focuses on insight-based learning; drawing out a Leader’s innate capacity for wisdom.
Her approach derives its theoretical underpinnings and models from business, sports and positive psychology, breakthrough technology, the field of ontology, Jungian Archetypes as well as a variety of cutting-edge, practical coaching approaches.
Elizabeth also aligns with Ancient Wisdom Traditions; becoming more of who you truly are with wisdom, compassion and balance. These principles are embodied in Stoic philosophy and Hermetic Principles and illuminated by the work of Erikson, Maslow and Jung.
What problems are you experiencing in your organisation?
Are people uncertain?
Is a lack of self-belief, apprehension or negativity holding people and the business back?
It might seem the solution is to… have people undertake interventions that dig deep, root out the core issues and get people to be more positive.
What works even better is to… enable people to access their innate and natural capacity for inner alignment
Is there tension?
Are team conflicts, lack of unity or the fallout of organisational change impeding your success?
It might seem the solution is to… get involved and fix all the people issues and conflicts (and it seems an impossible, endless task).
What works even better is to… foster goodwill and create a space for a natural human connection to arise which will clarify, dissolve or resolve all relationship issues.
Lacking perspective?
Is overwhelm, lack of focus or reactivity a problem?
It might seem the solution is to… help leaders to problem solve, get busy and figure out a strategy of what they need to do.
What works even better is to… ensure Leaders take some time and headspace to become insightful, clear and wise.
Are people uninspired?
Is there a lack of accountability, risk-taking and ideas flowing in your organisation?
It might seem the solution is to… motivate everyone with lots of carrots and train them to be more creative with techniques and strategies.
What works even better is to… liberate the inspirational genius that already resides in each person freeing them to take the next step.
To cultivate a culture of clarity, confidence, connection and creativity….
You need to cultivate the Core.
When you educate people to insightfully understand how the Core works and is alive in them, they get a reassuring taste of their own innate wellbeing and can let their wisdom lead to practically solve any challenge they might have. This results in a lot less unnecessary activity and a lot more effortless individual, team and organisational flow.
Working with me on the Core people naturally experience clarity, confidence, collaboration and creativity and..
Bounce back quickly from set-backs
Let go of unhelpful thoughts and feelings to have more optimism and ease
Find their voice
Access their optimum state of mind
Experience wellbeing
Cultivating Culture from the Core 5C’s model — © Elizabeth Lovius
“Elizabeth has been instrumental in developing our leaders and helping us transform our development offering. She is engaging, insightful and delightful to work with. She’s great in every way.”
Andrea Wareham Global Director of People, Pret a Manger