We’ve all seen our share of elephants in the room. When a big issue that’s staring us in the face is avoided because it’s considered too tricky to resolve.
Like the fact that one in six people in any workplace will have a diagnosable mental illness.
And yet why do we leaders still feel ill-prepared to help even though we’d like to, but perhaps it’s time we considered the elephant in the room less as a problem and more as an opportunity to learn from the animal world’s best naturally kind and empathetic leader.
Elephants are one of an elite group of animals that use teamwork to help them flourish. However, somewhere along their evolutionary process, they realized that to survive and thrive, they needed something extra… leadership.
While there are many theories, there is one form of leadership that we all feel comfortable with. One that works in every organisation – natural leadership.
Or to put it another way leading with care, achieving success through empathy, putting the wellbeing of the group ahead of everything.
Elephant matriarchs are the animal world’s best exponents of natural leadership and know that a group that feels safe will succeed and this film offers a four point guide for us human leaders to survive.