Hindsight to Insight: Reflective Practice for Leaders (Part 1)

The Balanced Leader Podcast

In this first part in a two part series of The Balance Leader Podcast, I introduce you to reflective practice, a powerful tool I've used for years in leadership development and in my personal life. I explain how reflective practice involves looking back on experiences to learn and improve. I discuss the many benefits of this approach, including better decision-making, enhanced emotional intelligence, improved team management, increased wellbeing, and greater resilience.

I also provide practical tips for incorporating reflective practice into your daily life, both formally and informally, and emphasise its importance in developing leadership skills beyond classroom theory.

In part two of this series I am going to go deeper on the Gibbs Cycle, a structured method people find useful to help get the most out of their reflective practice. I will be guiding you through an example that will showcase how the method works.

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Chapters

1. Hindsight to Insight: Reflective Practice for Leaders (Part 1) (00:00:00)

2. Welcome to The Balanced Leader Podcast (00:00:06)

3. What is Reflective Practice (00:01:10)

4. Examples of what to use Reflective Practice for (00:01:29)

5. We don't learn leadership in a classroom! (00:02:10)

6. The benefits of Reflective Practice (00:02:53)

7. My top tips to help you learn Reflective Practice (00:04:44)

8. Formal versus informal Reflective Practice (00:07:32)

9. Wrap Up (00:08:35)