I’m giving this talk / workshop in Atlanta Georgia. The client is looking for some academic & pragmatic ways to gather a wide variety of ideas, then create ways to implement the ideas. They are trying to shift the default mode of problem solving away from people who are senior or tenured within the organization.
Systems-drive-behavior and there is no special ‘leadership personality’ … Within any team when someone is great at their role people see them as a leader.
Competence = Comfort = Observed Leadership Behaviors
Presentation I gave at the ABWA Women’s Leadership Conference. The content is applicable to any organization, team and person who has leadership accountability attached to their role.
The Demystification of Leadership
Taking your group through a journey of experience, philosophy, pragmatism, and fun. Blending love for team building, leadership, innovation and experiential learning, and your group moves beyond listening. They learn, experience, laugh, gain knowledge and behaviors to make themselves and their teams better.
Team Building Facilitators lead activities that add value to the organization, team and person. This is established and created through purposeful processing and de-briefing of the activities. Allowing for functional tie-backs and applications to work, life, the community, etc…
If you are just playing games and not processing and de-briefing the activities then you are a recreation director.
Provide the staff with skills, tools, and facilitation that will allow them to find strengths within themselves, their department, other departments and Erie Community College as an organization. When exploring these strengths, discussions and process development of existing customer (students, staff, faculty, etc…) and stakeholder (Erie county, vendors, donors, NYS, etc…) interactions will evolve and create increased staff and customer satisfaction and retention.
Inspirational thought on JUST BE: Do I ever permit myself to simply Be and do nothing? What’s your Point of You? From the Points of You Facebook Recently I had breakfast with a friend Dr. George Hole. While speaking about existentialism, epistemology, and the Philosophy of Coaching. In this discussion George and I explored “Nothingness”. … Continued
The concept of Self-Directed and Other-Directed is that self-directed people believe they have a choice and stay accountable for actions and projects. While other-directed people believe they have no options but to comply and take revenge on your company and act like a victim. When you ask a self-directed person to do a task, their … Continued