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SURVEY: Jacqueline Peart

SPEAKER AND trainer Jacqueline Peart is on a quest to help leaders to do better by founding the Wholeness Academy, which will have its official launch on October 29.

The academy will aim to help individuals address aspects of their leadership style that prevent those under them from working to the best of their ability.

A survey carried out by the Wholeness Academy entitled What Happens When Great Leaders Hurt?, found that poor leadership styles greatly affect those being led. Of those surveyed, 47 percent said poor leadership caused confrontational behaviour, 51 percent said it caused stress, and 28 percent stated poor leadership affected their performance.

Leadership behaviour described as poor included sharing information given in confidence by underlings, undermining people’s efforts, and taking the credit for work they did not do.

Jacqueline stated: “Many leaders are probably unaware of how their behaviour has or is affecting those around them, and for those who are they probably have no idea how to fix things.

“Some behaviours displayed by the leader, such as poor communication, making unreasonable demands and lack of support, could be arguably put down to poor leadership skills. However, on closer inspection, behaviours such as putting people down in front of others, breaking rules of confidentiality and claiming undeserved limelight are more often than not signs of a person’s own struggle with low self-esteem. Something is wrong on the inside.”

The Wholeness Academy aims to offer a range of programmes designed to help leaders develop balanced lives, explore wholeness in the work environment and show them how to lead from a place of wholeness.

* For more details visit www.wholenessacademy.org