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LEADERSHIP
Many among us hold the formal positions and have the titles that suggest we are "leaders." Or, perhaps, we find ourselves in positions from which we believe we can't create change. "Its out of my pay grade," as the common complaint goes. Powerful leadership often comes, however, "from the middle" or from completely outside of our institutions.
Doing this work requires that we be aware of seemingly competing or contradictory values in ourselves and others. In this way, our leaders today need to engage the tools of artists, innovators, teachers, coaches and stewards to see with new eyes and to understand the dynamics of their organizations and communities.
Leadership calls us to:
- Lead from a place of center --- first, know our own core values, beliefs, aspirations and ambitions. What is at stake?
- Understand what it takes to gain informal authority - building trust beyond what position suggests.
- Learn to see the factions, the values, and the loss that groups are facing in the midst of rapid and constant change - and include them in forward movement.
- Use our experience and feelings as information -Where are we aligning with one group over another? Where have we experienced loss as things are changing? What has to change now?
The OCL Group designs experiences in which people can see and experience how they lead in real time and with their most pressing issues at hand.
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