Is your organization ready to embrace SQ (Spiritual Intelligence)?
Danah Zohar and Dr. Ian Marshall (Zohar) introduced the concept of SQ (or spiritual intelligence) into the workplace. Having recognized that IQ and EQ respectively focus on material and social capital only, they suggest that organisations currently lack spiritual capital.
This has nothing to do with religion or spirituality, but instead refers to “an ability to access higher meanings, values, abiding purposes, and unconscious aspects of the self and to embed these meanings, values, and purposes in living a richer and more creative life.
Signs of high SQ include an ability to think out of the box, humility, and an access to energies that come from something beyond the ego, beyond just me and my day-to-day concerns. SQ is the ultimate intelligence of the visionary leader. It was the intelligence that guided men and women like Churchill, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mother Teresa. The secret of their leadership was their ability to inspire people, to give them a sense of something worth struggling for.”
This has nothing to do with religion or spirituality, but instead refers to “an ability to access higher meanings, values, abiding purposes, and unconscious aspects of the self and to embed these meanings, values, and purposes in living a richer and more creative life.
Signs of high SQ include an ability to think out of the box, humility, and an access to energies that come from something beyond the ego, beyond just me and my day-to-day concerns. SQ is the ultimate intelligence of the visionary leader. It was the intelligence that guided men and women like Churchill, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mother Teresa. The secret of their leadership was their ability to inspire people, to give them a sense of something worth struggling for.”
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SQ incorporates 12 distinct attributes:
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SQ is not about the organization; it is about the individual’s own level of awareness within the organization. An organization claiming to be SQ enabled can only exist provided the individuals within the organization have each gone on their own personal journeys.
To achieve an SQ-enabled organization, I support executives and the teams they lead to become better leaders, through a mix of personal coaching and professional training. Just ask.
To achieve an SQ-enabled organization, I support executives and the teams they lead to become better leaders, through a mix of personal coaching and professional training. Just ask.
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An SQ Organization relies on one that is also Emotionally Intelligent (EQ).
For those organizations exploring the benefits of an EQ-enabled organization, and just as powerful and effective as The Reclaim YOUR Freedom Online Workshop, is the Color Of Series of Workshops. These have been carefully designed to support organizations bring emotional intelligence (EQ), as pioneered by Daniel Goleman in the 1990's, into the workforce.
The Reclaim YOUR Freedom Online Workshop enables an SQ Organization
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Awareness can make the Difference.
There are many tools available to support consultants and coaches improve their clients' processes and procedures, but very few to support developing awareness. The Reclaim YOUR Freedom Online Workshop is specifically designed to increase self-awareness and to become sensitive to and aware of the needs of others. |
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