Putting the Light into Leadership - Sister Jayanti and Vicky Vaughan, Brahma Kumaris
Channel: The Brand Surgery®
Date: 09/01/2022

Putting the LIGHT into Leadership.  The talk was designed around the word LIGHT, used as an acronym, which helped to guide us. 

I apologise that our introducer, the lovely Jackie, was not caught on camera and instead you have two empty chairs. 

L = Light Leadership – 
• What this means to Sister Jayanti and me.  Also explained by Steve Jeffries from Lady of Sion school, who is disrupting head teaching in a good way. Steve’s students have also had the good fortune to experience BK life. We’ll shortly share a video of Steve’s experience. 

I  = Inspiration – What inspired Sister Jayanti and me. How does she stay inspired? Inspirational stories. 

G = Genuine / Authentic –  What this means to  Sister Jayanti and me! Being truthful in my decision making so I can remain genuine and authentic in all my dealings.  Making an effort to remain consistently truthful.  Avoiding egos and political games and being a people pleaser, not scared to be disliked by making the right decisions rather than facing others. 

H = Harmony -  What this means to Sister Jayanti and me. Aligning vision, mission and values:What does this mean to Sister Jayanti and me. It’s easy to live by values when it’s all going well, but when it’s getting stressful, it’s not so easy then. I’m infamous for shooting off scary emails when I’m upset! Since I’ve been coming here, I don’t react so quickly if something rattles my cage. I take more responsibility and adjust myself rather than try to change others. Sometimes it’s hard to find out what our true values are, but if we think what really annoys us, then that’s a case of cognitive dissonance. Something is misaligning with our inner values. We should listen to that feeling – how is it making us feel?  

T = Thankful. What does this mean to Sister Jayanti and me. Being grateful makes me feel lighter even after a tough day. No matter how tough it’s been, when I am thankful for gifts like being taught to swim, cook and design and discovering BK, the bad stuff slips away from my thoughts – waste thoughts.