Written by Anne is the leader of a multinational company who was not aware of the impact of her leadership style on others.
As a highly result-oriented leader, she pursued her goals without considering the human side of her employees. She never thought she could become a source of stress and even less of fear to some of her coworkers. People who worked with her feared to express how they felt in her presence; a negative organizational climate was the result of Anne’s unconscious behaviors for many years. Some of her employees decided to leave their job to look for a different opportunity somewhere else without expressing the truth about their reasons to leave. She lost many talented people and the company had to pay for the impact of the turnover.
Through the ALD program Anne discovered she had anxiety to perform that caused her pain on her head and on her chest, in addition, she became aware that her action-oriented personality made her focus on different tasks that were not important for the result of the organization, making her feel exhausted when her journeys were over and leaving the most important projects surrender to the urgent tasks. She also realized that her nonverbal communication made her employees feel like incompetent workers who had to reprocess many times the assignments Anne gave them, losing valuable time and money for the organization.
Personally speaking, with the ALD program Anne discovered she was behaving in a similar way at home, affecting her relations with her husband and her children.
Finally, once Anne became aware of her unconscious attitudes and the impact she had on those around her, she improved her leadership not only at work but also at home, her pains stopped and she started developing authentic relations with those around her.
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