Our July 13, Leadership Edge workshop was on the topic of Awaken Your Intuition with Rossella Derickson, Krista Henley, SBODN and Corporate Wisdom

We completed a six month leadership series which covered 'Your Own Brand of Leadership', 'Expanding Your Communications Styles', 'Leading with Power, Influence and Integrity', 'Effective Decision-Making and Follow-Through', 'Fostering a Culture of Leadership and Innovation' and 'Getting to and Staying at the Top of Your Game'. To launch the three-month creativity series, this month's topic was on 'Awaken Your Intuition'.

As leaders, we are required to envision and communicate a strategic direction, galvanize resources and people to create measurable and sustainable results, therefore creating value for all stakeholders. But as a leader, when you're faced with tough and urgent choices for yourself, your team and your organization, how do you consistently set the direction and keep delivering value for your organization? Most leaders leverage their advisers, understand the data behind decisions, and process information well, but do most leaders tune into their intuitive selves to better and more consistently perform 'at the top of their game'?

For this month's workshop, we discussed the benefits of listening to your intuition in a business context, and how to empower that intuitive side of you to guide you when the stakes are high, and your leadership is critical. We learned techniques and strategies which have helped dozens of executives in Silicon Valley to address the challenging work (or personal situation). Below are notes from our discussion.

Intuition: Can be useful in a business setting when there's insufficient data, conflicting data, too much info, not enough time, etc.,