Bring Back Courage to Lead in the New Normal

30 Mar 2023 · 2 min

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In this motivational video, CB Bowman emphasizes the importance of everyday courage, which he terms "microcourage," arguing that small acts of bravery accumulate into a powerful collective force. He outlines a 6‑ or 7‑step process for cultivating this courage and promotes his workshop, "Courage to Leap and Lead," as a means for organizations to boost capacity, innovation, and creativity. Bowman stresses that fostering a culture where leaders and employees support each other's courage is essential for thriving in the post‑pandemic "new normal," and he calls on viewers to bring this workshop into their workplaces.

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I want to talk to you today about courage. We have forgotten about courage. We forgot how important it is in our lives. We have forgotten that we experience it every single day. We experience our delivering of courage every single day. We have associated courage with a huge definition, the definition of saving a life, when in fact every single day we are courageous. We need to understand that the— there are small acts of courage. I call them microcourage. When you put all those small acts together, we experience an explosion of courage. What we need to do is to understand how we are courageous every single day. It's a 7 or 6-step process, whichever you prefer. I want to bring our workshop, Courage to Leap and Lead, into your organization so that your organization increases capacity through innovation and creativity. At the base of all of that is courage, supporting each other in courage, supporting each of your employees in courage, employees supporting other employees in courage, leaders supporting employees, their staff in courage. That is how we increase capacity. That is how we will exist in our new normal. Bring courage to leap and lead into your organization. This is CB Bowman talking to you from a point of courage.