Peter Block writes books about ways to create workplaces and communities that offer an alternative to the patriarchal beliefs that dominate our culture. His work is to bring change into the world through consent and connectedness rather than through mandate and force. Peter’s books include: Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used (1st edition 1980); Stewardship: [...]
Think Like a Global Leader
Understand how political, cultural, and sustainability issues affect teams, organizations, and their leaders with Hannah Wilder, PhD., Cross Cultural Executive Coach, Author, President of Advantara Executive Development Worldwide, Inc. and The Academic Global Executive Coach Training Institute As companies move from national to global they are being called on to operate with new savvy in politically and [...]
Webinars
Many presenters take advantage of the ease with which mountains of verbose slides can be produced in not time using PowerPoint. In truth, Death by PowerPoint became a cliche because presentations are usually designed by presenters, for presenters, making the creation of a lot of information way to easy. In this 30-minute Webinar, we look at mistakes to avoid, key [...]
Be a Facilitative Leader
August 22, 2011 by 3 Comments
Many readers have commented to me over the years how facilitation is simply one of many roles they play on their job from time to time. They exercise this role officially when asked to facilitate a meeting, workshop, or retreat. At other times, they may simply be facilitative in the way they show up in the [...]
Is Charismatic Leadership Good for Groups?
August 9, 2011 by 4 Comments
This week’s article, Is Charismatic Leadership Good for Groups?, was inspired by a dialogue with my friend, Lynn Goldhammer, a Lieutenant Commander and Quality Performance Consultant in the Coast Guard. Our discussion got me questioning the value of strong, forceful, and charismatic leadership in the world of facilitation and training. It occurs to me as [...]
Lessons for a Dictator
May 17, 2010 by 2 Comments
Well Survivor did it to me again! Yes, I’m talking about the Survivor TV Series that appears on CBS every Thursday night. Each of the players this season had played the game at least once before and were dubbed either a hero or a villain based on their past performance on the show. The finale [...]
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