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Leadership Development Equity Tip: Learn about and incorporate assessment tools
Submitted by Deborah Meehan on Thu, 06/01/2017 - 12:01Tags:
This month's Leadership Development Equity Tip comes from a recent conversation with Anita Patel, Leadership Programs Director at the Bush Foundation. She explained that every Bush Fellow takes the Intercultural Development Inventory, an assessment tool that helps individuals and teams assess and reflect on stages of cultural sensitivity. It can be used to increase self-awareness, encourage development and to provide a conceptual framework for discussing intercultural interactions. Bush fellows use the assessment to create goals.
The fellowship is about how you strengthen yourself as a leader and how participants are naming that intercultural competence has to be part of it. The conversation reminded me that some programs use the Harvard implicit bias test and others introduce racial impact analysis tools developed by Race Forward. Assessment is an important starting point for improvement. Please share tools you are using to increase the equity competence of your participants and we can create a resource directory. Thanks Anita for the example and inspiration.
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I've coached hundreds of leaders across the globe-and the same practice makes a huge difference in almost everyone's performance
Submitted by LLC Staff on Wed, 05/31/2017 - 21:41By Johann Berlin for Business Insider
When we think of productivity in business, we often think of people pushing themselves past their limits — pulling all-nighters at work, eating lunch while responding to emails, zooming from one project or appointment to the next.
But in my experience, this definition of productivity is mostly a myth that serves neither the employee nor the organization.
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Meet the Creating Space Design Team and Hear about Objectives for Creating Space
Submitted by Deborah Meehan on Wed, 05/31/2017 - 14:56
I am excited to introduce the Creating Space design team assembled by Patrick Brown our design team lead and facilitator. He has assembled a powerful team with depth in racial justice work, a passion for leadership development, a commitment to generative learning and spirit. I have an important job this year, to stay out of the way and make room for new approaches, ideas, and talent to craft an event that can shape and support leadership development practices that will unleash the potential of leadership development to contribute to greater racial equity.
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Register for Bay Area Star Power Simulation
Submitted by LLC Staff on Tue, 05/23/2017 - 01:05Tags:
We look forward to sharing and dissecting the process of this powerful tool with Leadership Development Practitioners in the Bay Area!
Bay Area Learning Circle: Star Power
July 13, 2017 | 12pm-5pm
Oakland, California
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Welcoming LLC’s New Board Members
Submitted by Deborah Meehan on Thu, 04/27/2017 - 16:53
LLC is excited to introduce you to two new board members and to share our process of board development. There will be opportunities for you to plug into the process. First though, a big welcome to Uma Viswanathan and Linshuang Lu.
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Mindfulness Meditation 101: What It Is, Why Its Great, and How to Start By Leighna Harrison
Submitted by LLC Staff on Thu, 04/27/2017 - 15:55
The benefits of mindfulness meditation practice are vast, far reaching, and still being discovered – from better sleep and improved mood to clearer thinking and increased compassion it seems like mindfulness meditation can revitalize our lives from top to bottom. It even changes and strengthens the structure of our brain in only eight weeks. But what is it really? Mindfulness. Meditation. These terms get thrown around a lot these days. Seems like every time you turn around there’s an article on your news feed, a flyer in your workplace, or it’s even being taught at your kid’s school.
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Re-thinking Leadership: Deborah Meehan on Racial inequalities and Individualism By Sofia Trigo
Submitted by LLC Staff on Thu, 04/27/2017 - 15:30
Sofia Trigo is a student at Claremont McKenna College she published an interview with Deborah Meehan in the Kravis Leadership Institute publication, The Illumine.
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DeborahMeehan is the founder and executive director of the Leadership Learning Community where she works with a network of over 4,500 people on improving leadership development programs both nationally and internationally. In her presentation at the Kravis Leadership Institute’s 25th Annual Kravis-de Roulet Conference, “What in our Current Approaches to Leadership Development Contributes to or Undermines Greater Social and Racial Equity?”, Ms. Meehan explored how individualism and concepts of meritocracy permeate the ways we think about leadership and inequality. She also examined the influence race and racial tensions can have on leadership and leadership development programs. After her discussion, I was able to sit down with Ms. Meehan and continue discussing leadership and its current relationship to individualism and race.
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Seeing, Reckoning & Acting: A Practice Towards Deep Equity By Sheryl Petty
Submitted by LLC Staff on Thu, 04/27/2017 - 15:14From our partners at Management Assistance Group, prepare for Creating Space 2017 this year in New Orleans with this Sheryl Petty's article.
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Recently, we have noticed a great deal of energy and focus from organizations and groups wanting to pursue equity in their work. In our experience, this is a significant increase from past years. This level of attention and intentionality is inspiring. Equity (beyond “diversity” and “inclusion”) is essential to how we define “quality,” “high performance” and “success.”
For us, equity is core to what we seek in the world: dignity and well-being for everyone, and ensuring that resources and power are shared in ways for all people to realize our full potential, and contribute to thriving, sustainable communities.
Below you will find some of what we have learned in partnership with our clients and peers, about what transformation toward deep equity is and what it takes to advance equity and liberation (with a strong emphasis on racial equity), within our organizations, networks and beyond.
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Creating Space: Baking Equity & Justice into Leadership Development Work
Submitted by Deborah Meehan on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 11:34
Turn on the news and there is little doubt, equity is under assault... from attempts to repeal ACA, taxation proposals to cut taxes for corporations and the wealthy, to attacks on undocumented workers and Muslims. We need to build a new equity consciousness and set of practices into leadership development work to nurture our individual and collective resistance to stand up for social and racial justice.
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Experimenting with Leadership Development Action Learning Projects
Submitted by Deborah Meehan on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 11:19Tags:
Many leadership programs utilize some form of learning projects based on principles of adult learning and action learning. They are intended to strengthen the participant’s capacity to apply learning across different contexts. Of course, most action learning project participants hope to also deliver some value to the community beyond their own learning experience. Donna Dinkin, an action learning specialist describes action learning:
“ Action learning is a process (often coach supported) involving a small group of people solving real problems while at the same time focusing on what they are learning and how their learning can benefit each group member and the organization and community as a whole.”
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