In compassionate leadership, patience and empathy are two traits that are a must in order to be able to treat others with true compassion. While empathy may come naturally to many, patience is a skill that is often more difficult than people think. At Technalink, our teams work together to reach common goals, and being able to balance different talents and personalities is one excellent example in the benefit of patience.
Women in business exercise patience often when they don’t even realize it. The challenges they face in the day to day, and still bypassing these to reach success, all require patience to navigate successfully. While any women in business are capable of patience, and likely exercise it already, that doesn’t mean there isn’t room to become a more patient person overall. It benefits compassionate leadership, and it makes emotional stresses experienced at work and in your personal life far easier to handle. A few ways to embrace patience in your life are:
• Practice meditation – Meditation can be hugely beneficial in honing your patience. Selecting or creating a mantra that focuses on a patient mindset and using your mala prayer beads to direct these mantras in a meditative session, can gradually help you to become a more patient person naturally.
• Be honest with your triggers – For most, it’s easy to be patient during some times, and it’s easy to lose that patience during others. Finding out what your triggers are is important to moving past them. Does getting “off track” trigger a lack in patience? Does lateness lead to impatience? Go throughout your day and observe what makes you begin to lose those patient feelings.
• Pause before speaking – Sometimes a small challenge in patience becomes a much larger one simply by how you react to it. Rather than blurting out what’s on your mind in these times, practice mindfulness, take a pause, observe your feelings, and only then speak to any situation. You may find it much easier to reign in these feelings and go to a more patient place with intention.
Without patience, no professional can expect to grow in their own compassionate leadership journey. With a few easy changes to your day to day, you can be on your way to becoming a much more patient person in a natural and simple way.
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