HEALTH AND FINANCES: 7 Ways to Reconsider Fulfillment in Your Daily Life
What do you need to live your best whole and intentional life, and what is the relevance to our work in the area of whole and intentional leader development?
10 Tips for Moving from Technical Expertise to Leadership Expertise
Our deeply rooted competence in a technical area often provides the springboard into the deep end of our leadership capacity.
There Are No Shortcuts To Lasting Change
If you are reading this, you already know that developing the capacity of your leaders is one of the most important moves on your strategic agenda. The question isn't whether or not it's important, but how to actually do it. Deep and lasting change in human beings who are leading takes time. Change doesn't happen overnight, but we often buy in to solutions that tell us it does. Developing whole and intentional leaders is achievable, but it does take an ongoing commitment to invest in their whole story.
What would change if you had whole and intentional leaders, exceptional teams, and a culture that worked for you rather than against you? Every one of us knows that the answer is that everything would change. Our leaders set the tone, our teams get it done, and the culture keeps us in it.
10 Strategies for University Department Chairs and Deans
Being a department chair or dean on a university campus is one of the most challenging quasi-management jobs in the world. I describe it as quasi-management because most academics don’t see the job as a management job, and yet, it has all the same attributes of any other leadership role without being felt as one. While the job looks different in many contexts, the reality is that being a leader of an academic department isn’t something any of us prepared for, or in some cases, even desired. Nevertheless, these roles are some of the most important jobs on a university campus.
10 Questions to Build Leadership Continuity
How do you ensure leadership continuity in your organization? I cannot tell you how many times we’ve been asked, “Does your whole and intentional leader development system do succession planning?” It’s a great question. At the risk of answering a question with a question, we usually follow up with, “What do you mean by succession planning?”
5 Steps to Invite Change
There are different ways to arrive at a place of change, but there's one we recommend…
Leadership Lessons From My TEDx Journey
Doing a TEDx has been a developmental goal of mine for the last 10 years. It was born out of 25 years of integration of my understanding of psychological science, my experience of leaders and my own experience of leading, and something deeper in my faith and what I experience in the world of leaders every day.
2 Page PDF | WHOLE + INTENTIONAL LEADER DEVELOPMENT: The 10 Scientific Truths
What would change if we intentionally prepared a generation of courageous and sacrificial leaders who will bring thoughtfulness, conviction, hope, resourcing, strategic thinking, and deeply rooted care to the institutions and people they serve?
A Tool for Development Plans + Conversations
What would change if you created development plans and had intentional conversations with the people you lead?
10 REASONS TO INVEST IN WHOLE + INTENTIONAL LEADER DEVELOPMENT ANNUALLY
Our encouragement to you is to consider a complete paradigm shift and avoid the temptation to treat leader development as an event, and start seeing it as an integral part of your long and short term business strategy.
FAITH BEFORE WORK
What kingdom or universe do you exist within and what are the rules of that kingdom?
COACHING TIPS + THE PROCESS OF THOUGHTFUL ACTION
Coaching conversations, whether face to face or in a virtual setting, have the potential to have incredible impact. These conversations are different than mentoring conversations (which are also wonderful and important), but see how these simple tips can take these conversations to deep and meaningful new places.
Here are two helpful downloads for you to use right away in your coaching conversations.
THE MULTI-VOCATIONAL LEADER | Our Hope For the Future
What does it mean to be a multi-vocational leader and what does it mean to invest in them? To be a multi-vocational leader is to be a person who is called to be a leader or a contributing member in more than one context of our lives - the number of contexts being defined by the number of different calls to serve that we may receive and the number of times we respond with a “Yes, I will serve there” answer.
A Culture of Stretch & Support
If you have used the WiLD Toolkit already with your leaders, you have seen the impact. In a recent impact study on the leaders who have used the toolkit from start to finish, we saw meaningfully and statistically significant change in so many things - they were more convicted, confident, creative, hopeful, patient, supported, effective, open, intentional, courageous, humble, purpose and productive.
10 STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING A LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT CULTURE IN YOUR ORGANIZATION
Building a culture in your organization where people are being intentionally prepared to lead requires leaders who have made an intentional commitment to doing just that. Following are ten strategies and specific actions for building and sustaining an organizational culture where leaders are identified, supported, stretched, and developed.
WiLD Leaders Corporate Charter, Culture & Expectations
Want a glimpse into the WiLD Leaders Corporate Charter? Read it here! The team values, leadership presence, our expectations of one another, and what others can expect from us.
The Whole Performance Equation
What would change if we got beyond our fragmented conceptualization of performance as simply winning or getting the job done? Effective execution is absolutely necessary, but isn’t not sufficient on its own to inspire us. Getting the job done and seeing our people as people is what whole performance is all about.
The 10 Scientific Truths of Whole + Intentional Leader Development
What would change if we intentionally prepared a generation of courageous and sacrificial leaders who will bring thoughtfulness, conviction, hope, resourcing, strategic thinking, and deeply rooted care to the institutions and people they serve?
Leading Well Under Pressure - Emotional Self Regulation Guide
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12 CHANGES THAT HAPPEN WHEN WE GO FROM NOT LEADING TO LEADING
Being in the position of leading is quantitatively and qualitatively different from not, but how so. How is it different? Everything changes for a human being in that role. These statements or transitions are what changes when we begin to think about going forward well.