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CREATIVE LEADER’S LEARNING JOURNEYMASTER CLASS
How do we unsettle ourselves into opportunities for learning and growth and toward
WHAT ‘DRIVES OUR THRIVE’?
A LEARNING JOURNEY is a waking up! Some learning journeys are unintentional.
• a chance accident• a stranger who shapes a new possibility• a heartbreak unintended
But ideally, most learning journeys begin with an intention to move beyond the known and toward what can only be accessed by risking the unknown.
SETTING INTENTION
LEADING AS IF LIFE MATTERS
VALUES MATTER
What Drives Your Thrive?
What Drives Your Thrive?
What Drives Your Thrive?
REFLECTION
REFLECTION
“ It’s not hard to make decisions when we know what our values are.” —ROY E. DISNEY
If I were to put that on a triangle. What would it look like? FOR EXAMPLE >
What 3 values are most important to me?
Self RealizationCareer AdvancementInnovation/CreativityLoveFame/RecognitionAchievementComfort/SecurityCompetitionFinancial Wellbeing
Learning/EducationKnowledge/WisdomFairness/JusticeFun/HumorFreedomFamily LifeFriendshipHealthMaking a DifferencePower
SpiritualitySelf RespectTrustLeadershipSelect Another
Use these words and create your triangle:
What do I need to know, to discover, to fi nd out?
“We learn by going where we need to go.” —THEODORE ROETHKE
Are you leading as if life matters by living as if your life really, really matters?
Which of these 5 aspects need more of your attention?
How might you give that part of yourself more aliveness?
Physically?
Emotionally?
Spiritually?
Intellectually?
Generatively?
Why? What journey can I start or continue to help me do that?
“We save the world by being truly alive ourselves.”—JOSEPH CAMPBELL
REFLECTION
Well-being
Love
Making a difference
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CLASS OF
CATALYST | LEADING CREATIVE ENTERPRISE | ISSUE 16 SUMMER 2018 | CATALYSTREVIEW.NET
© Creative Leader’s Learning Journey Master Class Dr. Mary McBride and Leslie Kirschenbaum, 2018
How WIll You Enable Thriving By Leading?
How WIll You Enable Thriving By Leading?
How WIll You Enable Thriving By Leading?
“ If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”—JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
What strengths can you work from? Where can you stretch?
LEADING STRATEGICALLYLeaders need to manage beyond planning, delegating, and controlling. They must fi nd and overcome threats, accommodate adversity and understand business and market. They must be adept at:
___ Leveraging strengths and turning them into opportunities
___ Identifying and overcoming threats
___ Understanding complex interactions that infl uence enterprise activity and markets
___ Designing meaningful. Experiences, services, products
___ Leading learning and championing innovation
___ Engaging others and enabling collaboration
___ Leading as if life matters by using enterprise to enrich and enliven
___ Navigating ambiguity
INFLUENCING OTHERSInfl uence is crucial at every level of management and leadership. There are many ways to use infl uence. Including:
___ Using the power of your position/title
___ Leveraging to power of collaborative networks
___ Demonstrating expertise, insight, foresight
___ Taking action
___ Identifying the “mountains to climb” and helping to shape a vision that inspires and engages
DESIGNING A COLLABORATIVE CULTURE OF “CAN DO!”Culture supports and sustains enterprise action. Cultures of “can do” can be designed. Here are some things a leader can do to enable others:
___ Encourage, recognize and reward collaboration
___ Seek out ideas/voices that might not be heard
___ Resource people to succeed
___ Design learning in and certainty out
___ Establish a sustaining and shared vision
___ Model and encourage active listening
___ Put an equal emphasis on achieving results, building relationships, and contribution to shared goals
___ Develop systems to manage performance strategically toward vision
EXPERIMENTEvery great and deep diffi culty bears initself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to fi nd it.- NIELS BOHR
Do you need to “change your thinking”-to unlearn in order to learn?
How might you apply new learning to “Drive Your Thrive” at work and in those around you?
Where do you see opportunities to manage strategically, infl uence others, nurture climate?
What will you do today to begin your journey toward tomorrow?
“The way we live our lives, timorous or bold, will have been our life.” —SEAMUS HEANEY
COURAGE
What intentions do you want to act on?
Are you feeling confi dent-powerful?
What are those forces that support/resist?
How can we help-what do you need?
LEAD BY EXAMPLE
CALL TO ACTIONCALL TO ACTION
CALL TO ACTION
START YOURMONDAY MORNING
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CATALYST | LEADING CREATIVE ENTERPRISE | ISSUE 16 SUMMER 2018 | CATALYSTREVIEW.NET
© Creative Leader’s Learning Journey Master Class Dr. Mary McBride and Leslie Kirschenbaum, 2018