Ms Muro
This is possible when both sides -- the employers
and the employees -- strive to attain growth intellectually, physically,
spiritually, emotionally as well as healthwise.
Experts in lifestyle coaching and mentoring posit
that individuals are likely to increase their performance and undergo
attitude shift, when they are conscious that for everything that happens
in their lives, it emanates from the choices they make every moment of
their lives.
Speaking at a breakfast session in Dar es Salaam
last week, two inspirational speakers argued that hunger for success and
a desire for health and longevity were the reasons why most people seek
to live and lead consciously.
They, however, urged that sometimes people step
into leadership positions and responsibilities unprepared thus end up
facing difficulties all along the way. “Many leaders in Africa are
thrust into key leadership positions for various understandable reasons
including as rewards for good governance,” says Zuhura Muro -- managing
director of Kazi Services Limited, a human resource advisory, training,
coaching and management consultancy services firm.
Muro, however, says that far too often, leaders
step into these positions with great trepidation because they believe
they do not possess any specific training in becoming a successful
leader. Even those who have been trained, she says, most have not had
training in how to understand and manage their mind, body and spirit as a
fundamental pre-requisite for enlightened leadership.
“The majority of them suffer from high levels of
stress, hypertension and other related ailments leading to many lost
productive hours,” she says.
According to her, the simplest way to observe the
toll that leadership responsibilities exert on the human body, mind and
spirit, is to watch the speed with which the colour of a true leader’s
hair greys and how often they look visibly exhausted.
“The world leaders are a classic and most visible demonstration of this phenomenon,” she says.
There is good news, however, to all those suffering pressure due to leadership responsibilities, according to Muro.
She says that the phenomenon could positively be
reversed if staff and the managers master the skills and competencies
for striking the balance of the mind, body and spirit.
“Such a result will, in good time, even reduce the visits to the doctors and thus reduce employer expenditure on medical bills.”
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