Recently, I've been reading the ideas from The Presencing Institute (PI), an action-research community that "creates social technologies, builds capacities, and generates holding spaces for profound societal renewal." The Presencing Institute grew out of the MIT Center for Organizational Learning, which was founded by Peter Senge and his colleagues. The word "Presencing" blends the words “presence” and “sensing” and works through “seeing from our deepest source.” It's a systems leadership … [Read more...]
How To Make Meetings Work for Your Nonprofit (whether you are sitting,standing, or walking!)
[slideshare id=44836927&doc=finalwebinar2-150218101244-conversion-gate02] Last week, I co-presented a Guidestar webinar with Andrea Kihlstedt on the topic of healthy and productive meetings who talked about the basics for making meetings highly effective. I spoke about standing and walking meetings. This post shares some reflections and additional resources about both topics. Productive Meetings We all have lived through that awful conference call or equally horrendous in person meeting. … [Read more...]
I-WE-IT Framework: Transformative Leadership for Social Change
On April 6-8th, I'm co-facilitating a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and Justin Ferrell. The retreat curriculum is built around the ALF's "I-WE-IT" - skills that today's social change leaders need as we move towards more collective approaches. You can learn more and register here. What is I-WE-IT? This an impact to impact developed and practiced by the American Leadership Forum in Silicon Valley, a network of social change … [Read more...]
Does Your Nonprofit Suffer from a Culture of Sitting? How To Change It
On February 12th, I'll be presenting on a FREE Guidestar Webinar on healthy and productive meetings and talking about walking meetings (register here). There is much research out there about why sitting at work is downright dangerous for your health. There is also research about how walking or even standing up at work can increase you and your team's creativity. Yet, many nonprofits are losing productivity and less creative because they are trapped in a culture of sitting. It's time to … [Read more...]
The Intersection of Systems and Network Leadership
Found when researching systems thinking. Such a friendly visual...telescopes, tents, and teddy bears. #netlead pic.twitter.com/gmb9TYyifz — Rebecca Arno (@rarno) February 3, 2015 I'm facilitating a peer learning course on practical networked leadership skills with a group of community foundation leaders for the Knight Digital Media Center and part of the "practice" is having conversations and sharing thought provoking ideas with our professional networks via social media. Rebecca Arno was … [Read more...]
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