How Can Self-Love Transform My Approach To Team Management?

Hi I am Samantha Amit and Welcome to Ask Your Coach newsletter with stories about how high achieving, busy managers who get overwhelmed and frustrated, are able to change this to being strategic, focused, intentional and calm. Gain insights into managing yourself, your teams and the business in today's evolving complex work environment.

I am a few days back from a 9-day silent vipassana and metta meditation retreat. When I practice meditation I am always learning about myself and how I am in relationship to the world. I am increasingly confident and more stable within. This is profound and powerful. With the right practices in place that are relevant for YOU, you can increase your level of consciousness and be that much more confident, clear and calm. With this inner power you are more able to grow and lead a high performing team.

The article that follows is interesting as it goes back 22 years to when I was 23. I have been traveling this path of self development now for a couple of decades. Enjoy and would love to hear from you.

You can learn more about me and the work I do by clicking here.

I was 23, recently married, and vacationing at the Carmel Forest Hotel, a luxury spa hotel in a pastoral setting surrounded by forest. The hotel pampers its guests with delicious and healthy food and wonderful massages.

There was a lecture on Love ❤️, and I thought: AMAZING - I am definitely going…I can learn a few tips about that. (being recently married).

I went to the lecture, and I was astonished.

It was about loving ourselves.

I had always thought about loving others and paid little attention to loving myself.

The lecturer helped me to understand the significance of daily self-love and the importance of practicing it consciously.

My Journey of Personal Growth: Hacks for High-Performance Team Building

The problem is that life happens to all of us.

We have good intentions, but then we get busy with work and life.

I quickly got back into my corporate leadership role in high-tech. As a young mom, I was eager to give my energy and love to everyone around me, and too often, I felt like I didn’t have time for myself.  

One of these hacks is to love yourself and to practice self-compassion because you will err. 

Love has the energy of connection. 💫 Fear or anger is the opposite–disconnecting us from ourselves and others.

Practicing love for oneself in the corporate world means:

• Understanding your values and being intentional about living them at work.
• Showing up boldly with confidence and conviction.
• Taking responsibility and care of yourself.
• Growing your self-compassion muscle.
• Remembering that work is not everything you do; when you are at work, you know your boundaries and stick to them.

My clients tell me that when they bring this into their daily work life, they walk around confidently, their colleagues want to collaborate with them, and they feel calmer.

How Can Self-Love Transform My Approach To Team Management?

So, maybe you're wondering what this has to do with managing teams, conscious leadership, or creating an ecosystem of collaboration and positivity in the workplace.

Everything!

Effective team management requires healthy leadership.

Self-love and self-respect are critical personal assets that empower you to set boundaries, avoid burnout, and create a positive work environment.

If you’re unable to set healthy boundaries, you’ll feel frustrated and resentful toward your teams. You’ll want to micromanage everything, eroding any sense of work-life boundaries. Friction will build between you and your teams, colleagues, and maybe even with your family.

Ultimately, you'll become a shell of your potential self and lose the ability to create the positive environment that empowers you and your teams to thrive.

If you prioritize a mindset of self-love and self-respect among your teams, you'll successfully grow an ecosystem based on collaboration, respectful communication, and healthy boundaries.

And you'll be happier, calmer, focused, more productive, and enjoy life.

How Can You Practice Self-Love And Revolutionalize Your Team Management?

Effective leadership stems from a place of inner strength and clarity. When you practice self-love, you set the tone for a healthy, productive work environment. Leaders who value themselves set boundaries, have an integrated life, avoid burnout, and foster a collaborative ecosystem. 

Start your journey with three simple steps.

1. Define your professional goals and envision the future you want.
2. Align your actions with your core values and stick to your boundaries. 
3. Plan your time wisely, ensuring you prioritize what’s important to you.

Sometimes, tapping into your inner wisdom to open the gates of self-love is challenging. Taking a mindful pause helps to focus the mind so that you can enter that inner space and your truth, envision what self-love looks like, and how to manifest it in your daily life. Here’s a popular video that I created to help you with this.

Let’s connect and discuss how you can implement these practices into your work and life to achieve the goals that are important for you!

Sam

Samantha works with high achieving business owners and managers to be more present, strategic, confident and calm.