This is the way to think about self-leadership: noticing how you influence your own situation and what happens around you..
You don’t need a title, a team or a formal leadership role to exercise leadership. The moment you influence what happens around you, you are part of the leadership process.
That means most of us exercise leadership every day.
The real challenge is not simply to have influence. It is to understand how your influence affects communication, relationships, decisions, culture and the quality of everyday life.
This is where SGL comes in.SGL is about
making the obvious
visible.Through simple ideas, symbols, colours and practical questions, SGL helps you see what is already happening, understand why it happens, and discover what you can do differently.
The starting point is simple:
Better communication starts with better awareness.
SGL is therefore not only about becoming a better leader. It is about becoming more conscious of the leadership you already exercise, in your work, in your relationships and in the situations you influence every day.
The SGL journey can begun.
There is no fixed path from alpha to omega.
You begin where it feels natural—whether from a corner or right in the middle of the picture.
Are you curious?
Ask yourself: What am I thinking right now?
And then—follow it. Let the journey begin exactly there.
Click Key-Content and find a theme that sparks your interest. – That’s all it takes. You’re on your way. –
Before Start.
A journey with SGL is a journey into your inner landscape—learning to meet life’s many demands in a dynamic interplay toward shared goals. Along the way, you’ll work with tools that enrich your communication (the language of colors), your decisions (the decision tree), your relationships (the chessboard), and your values—including the unconscious images of humanity that guide you. – As you move forward, you’ll discover this:SGL-secrets is not a textbook.
The “secrets” are not instructions—they are recognitions. They awaken insight, create awareness, and open new possibilities.
It all comes down to starting where you are—not where someone else assumes you should be.
The real secret lies in collaborating with the wisdom of your own body.
This is life experience carried through thousands of years—embedded in your genes—knowing exactly how you respond to hunger, grief, change, discovery, desire, love, relationships, values, and the forces that shape groups, families, and nations in their struggle to survive.In truth, it is remarkably simple:
Everything is changing — yet the patterns repeat. – Beneath the surface, Homo sapiens still responds much as in the ancient narratives of Abraham’s children – Jews, Christians, and Muslims—in the story of Adam and Eve – with the same hunger, the same grief, the same fight for belonging.”
The secret is to recognize and use the wisdom you already carry: your deepest needs and skills, your innate longing for peace, harmony and love; your intuitive instincts of fear, fight, and flight; and the skills you have learned for mastery and survival.
“Our experience is:
SGL should be Mandatory for organization and start-up of all team- and project groups.”Knut Birkeland – HR Director Norwegian Hydro / U&P
The Personal red level mirrors the organizations’ goals and strategies.
The pyramid test tells How.
As leader you know.
My management determines the result.
The Private yellow level mirrors the risk, gut feeling and vulnerability.
The egg symbol tells us Why.
Remember: You never
reach higher than you go within yourself.
The Professional blue level mirrors the rational head communication.
The color language requires What.
Be aware:
Your words create what they mention.
“The SGL concept was a fantastic starting point for establishing a common language in the management team. The result was, almost conflict-free communication between employees, which released extra energy to strengthen work towards common goals defined in the strategic plan”
“Jan Petrus brings wisdom developed from supporting people in life and in business over many decades in different spheres. He can help leaders understand themselves and each other better, and therefore how to get the best from each other”
“Petrus is a wise man. – . I admire the way Petrus talks to and guides the participants in their inner life and their understanding of themselves.
