Advanced Awareness in Personal Development #8 Spiritual Audit of Your Business

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By Chris Walker - Advanced Awareness Course #8 The Spiritual Audit The spiritual audit offers a barometer of the sustainability, long-term stability, and current health of the business. It is also critical for individuals within a company – a low ranking on the chart would automatically point to high stress, poor health and potential executive burnout which ultimately leads to poor client relationships and in most cases a drop in client satisfaction.

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THE SPIRITUAL AUDIT The spiritual audit offers a barometer of the sustainability, long-term stability, and current health of the business. It is also critical for individuals within a company – a low ranking on the chart would automatically point to high stress, poor health and potential executive burnout which ultimately leads to poor client relationships and in most cases a drop in client satisfaction.

There are five key ingredients to the spiritual audit.

Attitude We know from all the work done on the human condition that certain mindsets help individuals work well in a sustainable and relaxed fashion. In some cultures, stress seems to be a badge of honour, worn to acknowledge effort. However, in a productive, spiritually balanced organization a certain attitude of specific and measurable nature pervades every event, conversation and meeting. People think in a certain way.

Bottom-line Evolution is constant and steady, moderation is the key, continuous improvement is the process. In the spiritual audit a matrix of ten key variables combine to evaluate the performance of a business. These include, return-on-investment, net profit, revenue, cost of sales, employee health costs (a blend of compensation, sick leave and absenteeism), client turn, and competitive position. The merging of qualitative and quantitative information creates a ratio that is plotted over time to create trend-maps, and from these maps you can evaluate.

INSPIRED LEADERS Inspired leaders know that to eat an elephant you do it one bite at a time. So to fulfil a big vision or dream it is wise to chunk it down into smaller bite-size pieces.

Vision In contrast to the classical 1980s model of vision and values driving an organization, a spiritual audit hunts for a deeper level of motive. In a fully developed, mature business, company vision plays such a small role in performance and teamwork it is almost secondary. We have all spent many hours over the last years pondering a single word in a vision statement – our

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attachment to vision is intense. But the company vision lacks the one key ingredient needed to move from motivation, (high-cost people management), to inspiration, (low-cost people management). A spiritual audit probes for a deeper, more individualized form of personal congruity.

INSPIRED LEADERS Inspired leaders know the importance of job descriptions and performance appraisal systems. Inspired leaders know that the best

Environment There are seven key variables we utilize in the evaluation of environments – they are quantitative measures but totally comparative from company to company.

They take only minutes to complete in any one particular work area but, of all the above, are the most telling.

In the process of manifestation these are key criteria for any successful team, organization or business.

person to write a job description is the employee. They also know that performance appraisal systems allow companies to develop their people on a continual basis. Inspired leaders offer performance development programs for their people – an objective

Leadership self-evaluation process.

Over the past five years this has become the most developed area in business, but it is still the most misunderstood. First, no leader can lead people who refuse to be lead. So much literature focuses on an individual at the top but this completely misses the point. Great leadership only happens with great people. And great people take responsibility for every breath they breathe.

Organizations cannot outgrow the mindset of their clients, but they can change them. Great leadership involves great people across a three hundred and sixty degree spectrum – suppliers, families, colleagues, clients and end-users. The mindset and awareness of this total wholistic group are the critical keys to leadership.

And leadership is the one ingredient a success story cannot live without.

INSPIRED LEADERS Inspired leaders welcome the uncomfortable, the unknown, the questioning. Inspired leaders acknowledge that in confronting the known there is discomfort and confrontation and this is all part of the change process.

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SPIRITUAL AUDIT – HOW DOES YOUR COMPANY RATE? What are people saying?

What are people doing?

What is the dominant thought?

Where is the vision?

What pictures adorn the walls?

What do people look like?

What pace are people working at?

What are the dreams and visions of the people?