LOOKING AT LEADERSHIP THROUGH A NEW SET OF LENS
Yeah, I haven’t blogged for a while. I’ve been on the road - writing two books, travelling between New Jersey and Ireland, delivering presentation about transformational leadership, and providing consulting support for several different projects.
2007 was a tremendously successful year for my women in leadership workshops and presentations. Looking back to December 2006 when I decided to leave my full time corporate role to pursue my current endeavors, I never imagined that I’d meet so many wonderful women and leaders who yearn to be more human in their leadership.
I’ve almost completed Bring Your Spirit to Work™: One Woman at a Time and each day I continue to be grateful for the opportunity to share my work with other women. I’m volunteering at a women’s breast cancer center one morning a week, doing my best to repay some of the support I received during my breast cancer treatments. I’m working with a group of entrepreneurs in Ireland as they consider offering their inventions and products here in the United States. I had an opportunity to develop a global communications plan for a pharmaceutical team in New Jersey. We had many discussions about creating meaning and purpose in technology implementations.
Enough about me. What about you. This website and my book in progress, “Bring Your Spirit to Work: One Woman at a Time” is an invitation to explore your leadership perspective through the lens of spirituality and bringing your whole self to your leadership, your work, your organization, and to the 21st century global world we live in.
The major assumption of whole-person leadership is that an individual plays a significant role in accomplishing the organization’s mission and purpose in a manner that promotes vision, trust, competence, creativity, stewardship, and servant leadership.
Many of the individuals I work with ask how they can bring their whole person, their spirit to work, and how they can become transformational leaders. Business leaders face issues related to creativity and innovation, motivation, service, meaning, purpose, ethics, values, responsibility, and the future. In order to be successful in the 21st century, business will require individuals who are emotionally intelligent, creative, and willing to make decisions and take responsibility.
What about you? How do you define whole person leadership? What would you like to talk about in upcoming blogs?
