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| Volume 1, Issue 6 - August, 2000 | The
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Welcome to IWL's monthly e-newsletter, designed to keep you, our alumnae, informed about current events and important information on the progress of our global community and commitments. To unsubscribe from the mailing list please send a blank email from the email address you received this message to: iwlalumnae-unsubscribe@eGroups.com In this issue:
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| Glass Ceiling Alumni programs women leading change partners leading change executives_leading_sustainable_change events calendar Institute for Women's Leadership Archives |
1) Women
Leading Change for Women of Color Success
Insight
from the recent WLC for WOC at Agilent Technologies
2)
Coaches
Column - Improving Performance
Steps
to improving performance prior to 'the big nap!'
Dr. John Lee is an authority on natural hormone balance and the author of several books including, 'What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause.'
We attended one of Dr. Lee's eye-opening talks on natural progesterone and its effect on women's (and men's) health.
Link to Dr. Lee's web site from Helpful Resources, Fitness, Health and Wellbeing section.
Please review the article
listed in his 'What's in the News' section titled, 'Study Shows Breast
Cancer Risk...'
4) A note from Rayona - Contextual Leadership
Dear friends,
During the past several months we've been engaged in applying the
principles and skills from the Women Leading Change program in other,
more widespread applications. It is now apparent that we need to have
a name for the type of work we do and advocate in our programs. We're
officially trademarking 'contextual leadership' and 'contextual learning.'
Structure and Behavior
In essence, the usual approach to leadership development and organization
change is to control and manage the things that normally fall into two
categories:
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content
and structure |
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| 2. | activities
and behaviors |
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These categories are widely accepted, understood and generally receive the lion's share of attention in an organizational change program.
We encourage people to learn about the things in these categories that are necessary for success, but we don't expect that systemic and sustaining change will come from merely tweaking or enhancing the system's content and activities.
Context
The single, most important dimension of leading change, and therefore,
leadership competency, is to develop the ability to hear and see the context
(mindset, frame of reference, or culture) that is 'shaping the reality'
of the system or organization.
Context creates a 'field of play' or an environment in which things happen. Designing and protecting the integrity of that field is the most important job of a contextual leader. Without an empowering context, making changes to structures and behaviors is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
Some of the key practices required
in contextual leadership are:
| 1. | Generous
listening |
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| 2. | Committed
speaking |
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| 3. | Granting
trust |
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| 4. |
Conversations for actions |
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Our Commitment
We are committed that everything you learn in our programs, when
applied regularly and appropriately, enables you, a contextual leader,
to produce breakthrough results in your organization and community.
Coaching and Communities of Practice
In addition, successful contextual leadership requires coaching
and communities of practice that form a feedback system for applying what
you are learning and learning from what you are applying.
Please share your successes or failures in applying contextual leadership to the organizations and communities that you care about by calling us at 650.366.7350 or emailing us at jennifer@womensleadership.com or rayona@womensleadership.com
With warm regards,
Rayona
Rayona Sharpnack
President
Institute for Women's Leadership
http://www.womensleadership.com
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