Women Leading Change
3-Day Leadership Program
To download a white paper and detailed brochure about IWL's leadership methodology, Contextual Leadership, please provide the following:
|
As a leader, what view of the world are you operating from? How can you
influence others to enlist in that perspective and cause it to happen? Every
successful leader, from Mother Teresa to Meg Whitman, has used the
principles of "context shifting" to lead significant, sustainable change.
The ability to define and declare new and better possibilities is the mark
of powerful leadership, a capacity that is in high demand in our
organizations and society today. In this white paper we describe how context
shifting occurs and what that does for us, as individuals and leaders. As
you will come to see, the process, by definition, works from the inside out.
What is context? For now, let's define it simply as the deeply ingrained
attitudes and beliefs that create our world view and shape our lives. All
individuals and all organizations have a prevailing context, whether
recognized or not. Most individuals don't purposely design their
contextsthey inherit them. In the same way, most organizations don't
deliberately design their culture ("how we do things around here") but find
that it evolves over time, and is reinforced by rules, recognition,
punishments and rewards. The real source of people's actions is not what
they know but how they perceive the world around them and what conclusions
they draw as a result. It is easy to confuse those conclusions with reality.
It takes a kind of disciplined awareness to separate what we think to be
true from the actual facts, and choose a different course instead. Discover how contextual thinking—the foundation of Contextual Leadership—is about that discipline. |
