Pernille Sandberg Bech

YOU CAN’T HEAL WHAT YOU DON’T WANT TO SHARE. Vulnerability and the desire for personal development will be a future leadership superpower AND one of the solutions to our inclusion challenge. Goodtalks research shows that 90% of us are afraid of not being good enough when we go to work – I believe this has a HUGE impact on our productivity and creativity. In addition, I’m a firm believer that if you can’t include yourself, you can’t include others – this has an impact on how inclusive we are in our workplaces. This leads me to two things. 1. there is a HUGE task for leaders to create a safe space where we feel we are good enough at what we do and we dare to speak our minds. 2. One way to do this is by being open ourselves. Even sharing our flawed selves – even being vulnerable. I find that there is NOTHING that opens up a room like taking the shield off yourself. I’ve been through some really long development processes and I’m still going through them – are you really ever finished. One of the biggest things I have learned, and has clearly become part of my own healing process, is the awareness that guilt and shame only live in the dark. There is nothing more soothing to my nervous system than saying the things out loud that I struggle with – it has been SUCH an important tool to integrate. Opening up about what’s difficult and not shying away, soothing and running away from it – it’s a difficult thing to do. Start small – I did. Exercise my courage muscle – it does something – I promise! Start by sharing the small things – there is a huge freedom in the vulnerable. In the unglossy stories, you create space for yourself and others to feel that they are good enough just the way they are.