What you’ll learn…

• Hagberg's six-stage Power Model that challenges traditional belief systems that continue to define "success" by position power, money and personal recognition.
• How to help other people reach their full potential by letting go of your ego, sharing power and aligning with your life purpose.

The Real Power Model (permission granted by Janet O. Hagberg, Real Power, Stages of Power in Organizations, Sheffield Publishing Co., 1994) consists of six stages of power. According to this model, you must move through the stages in order, from external to internal. The stages are cumulative, with each building upon the other and occurring in order.

External:

• Stage 1, Powerlessness
• Stage 2, Power by Association
• Stage 3, Power by Symbols

Internal:

• Stage 4, Power by Reflection
• Stage 5, Power by Purpose
• Stage 6, Power by Wisdom

Personal power in organizations increases when leaders have both external and internal power when people begin leading from their souls rather than positions of authority.

The first half (Stages 1-3) of the leadership journey

External power (the capacity to act) represented by confidence, competence, expertise, titles, success, degrees, stature, money, self-esteem and recognition

• Marshaling resources
• Meeting goals
• Managing people
• Making things happen
• Achieving cultural success
• Making a living

The second half (stages 4-6) of the leadership journey;

Integrating external power (the capacity to act) with internal power (the capacity to reflect) that emerges out of our inner self, our souls, our deepest values, and is more related to who we really are and what our life purposes are:

• Finding meaning and a sense of calling in our work
• Exploring our inner passion
• Creating long-lasting effects
• Rooted in spirituality, community and connectedness
• Making a living work

Learn about soulful leaders

• Who are no longer limited by their own minds and imaginations
• Who have the courage to significantly change the world for the better
• Who face their shadows, the parts of themselves that are hidden and that they project onto other people

Learn about the requirements of soulful leadership

• Requires courage
• Asks that you let go
• Asks that you face your deepest fears
• Asks that you relinquish your ego

Discover

Where you are personally and to appreciate where others- customers, colleagues, supervisors and employees - are who may be at a stage different from yours

• Stage 1, Powerlessness
• Stage 2, Power by Association
• Stage 3, Power by Symbols
• Stage 4, Power by Reflection
• Stage 5, Power by Purpose
• Stage 6, Power by Wisdom