Reflect to Create
This text examines the habits of leaders and how they use the process of reflection to create conditions that foster growth in people and the collective well-being of the organization.
2. What the research said and what it means for leaders
2.2. When does "reflection" become "reflective practice"?
As my research showed "reflection had become reflective practice when a consistent discipline of reflection had become established". All seven leaders had evolved their own practices which worked for them and which were also developing and evolving all the time overtime as the benefits of their reflective practices became more and more apparent to them.
All felt that reflection was no longer just a tool but had now become an intrinsic part of who they were and their way of being and relating to the world. One leader said:
"Reflection has become a very natural and obvious thing to do".
Another said:
"My reflective processes of sense making and making sense is applied all the time now to everything that I do".