Remember my glitteringly clear biopsy? The “no malignant or suspicious cells” response I found so totally heartening? It turns out that the complete lack of any kind of cells other...
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At Cultivating Leadership, we help leaders use complexity as the key that unlocks new possibilities for a better tomorrow
The massive growth of complexity has left many leaders—and their entire organizations—stuck with old tools and ways of thinking that simply don’t work in this new world. At Cultivating Leadership, we help leaders and organizations not only tolerate complexity but learn to use it to their advantage to become more agile, creative, and successful in a changing world. Our collection of experienced and innovative colleagues helps large and small organizations through leadership programs, organizational development, executive coaching and more.
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For me the programme was like an oxygen balloon, lifting me up and connecting me with a bigger view of myself and my work.
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As a more "mature" manager, I thought that sending me to a leadership development programme could well be a waste of resources. I could not have been more wrong. Cultivating Leadership's approach to creating a learning environment, working on tough stuff, and not shying away from hard questions made for a challenging but enriching learning experience--I know I'm a better leader as a result.
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You can tell just by sitting in a meeting who has been on the programme by their reactions and the nature of the questions they ask.
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The information and experience I've gained during this training feels critical to my future work at the Foundation and to becoming more thoughtful, functional, deliberate and connected to my teams and colleagues. I want to reiterate how much I appreciate the culture of career/personal development we have been nurturing, and give a special shout-out to this curriculum and facilitators. The Foundation and the world would be a much easier place to navigate and interact if everyone had the chance to have this experience.
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It's the best course I've been on in nearly 40 years of public service.
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I would say it is the most powerful professional development experience I have ever had, giving me tools to get and give more information. The concepts are simple and transformative.
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These Leadership Development Programmes were so successful they were expanded to the whole Natural Resources sector in collaboration with these agencies. This was the most innovative and successful leadership and culture change programme I have been involved with or seen in 17 years of developing leaders in organisations. ...More than skill development the programmes, we implemented shifted mindsets of leaders and enabled them to manage their own views of the world.
In The News
- re: Work - In a deluge of data look for surprises, not confirmation
- The Gist of the Best Books I've read - John Saunders
- 10 Must reads for IT leaders
- McKinsey Quarterly - Zafer and Jennifer - "Managing in uncertainty - Delighting in the possible"
- Huffington Post - Jennifer "Ambiguity? A New Book Suggests Leaders Should Learn to Love It"
- Fast Co. - Jennifer and Keith - "4 Steps to becoming more adaptable to change"
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COMPLEXITY
Uncertainty sucks
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COMPLEXITY
Pleating of time and possibility
On the other side of the planet, in another time and another season but at this instant, Doug Silsbee is being farewelled by friends and family in what must be a spectacular—moving,...
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EMBODIED LEADERSHIP
Celebrating Doug from the Mountain Top
August 11, 2018 This morning I awoke at 3am at the Lower Saddle of the Grand Teton, a mountain in Wyoming that I grew up looking at every day of my early life, but which I had...
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GRATITUDE
Saying Goodbye to Doug Silsbee
Last August, I got up early, and tiptoed out of my hotel room in Fiji, leaving my 20-year-old daughter and her best friend sleeping in the darkness. I walked barefoot with my laptop in...
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