10 Questions to Build Leadership Continuity
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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?”

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DIFFERENCE + SAMENESS: Whole Leader Development and Diversity, Equity, + Inclusion
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DIFFERENCE + SAMENESS: Whole Leader Development and Diversity, Equity, + Inclusion

Over the past months, Rob and I have become friends and have learned so much from one another. So, as we sought to write something together regarding the relevance of whole leader development, we decided to write it as a dialogue - a conversation between us designed to explain the intentions behind the toolkit in reference to our own personal journey of inclusion and exclusion, and as a way to project where the conversation regarding differences and similarities across our contexts may be going next.

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Leadership Lessons From My TEDx Journey
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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.

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THE MULTI-VOCATIONAL LEADER | Our Hope For the Future
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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.

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A Culture of Stretch & Support
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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.

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10 STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING A LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT CULTURE IN YOUR ORGANIZATION
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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.

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The Whole Performance Equation
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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.

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