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How has your work changed for you since the CWL training?
Attending the CWL training has helped me to find my voice at the office. I've always considered myself a junior member of our leadership team and by nature tend to be more of an observer. However, since attending the leadership training I find myself speaking up every chance that I get - no longer as strongly influenced by my old ideas of seniority. How refreshing! Especially when I blurt out something...not quite right. The looks I get from my co-workers let me know I'm on my learning edge which is exactly where I should be. A little discomfort is a good thing.
I've also learned what vision is and how it relates to goals and how to utilize vision to gain the support of stakeholders. Putting it all into practice is another story, but I grasp the ideas now and it has added a level of clarity to my work. Now I can describe the end product of my goal, the effects I want to achieve both on an emotional level and in terms of analytics such as cost, resources, etc. and not just talk about the process. This helps me enormously as I tend to get lost in the details.
Looking forward to more practice with vision & goals...
I've also learned what vision is and how it relates to goals and how to utilize vision to gain the support of stakeholders. Putting it all into practice is another story, but I grasp the ideas now and it has added a level of clarity to my work. Now I can describe the end product of my goal, the effects I want to achieve both on an emotional level and in terms of analytics such as cost, resources, etc. and not just talk about the process. This helps me enormously as I tend to get lost in the details.
Looking forward to more practice with vision & goals...
Tags: goals, leadership, vision, women
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Permalink Reply by Jodi Medlar on -
Thanks for sharing! I need to refocus and rethink my vision and goals. I have been very task focused lately.
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Permalink Reply by juliana on -
Well, this is huge, and i'm not up for a long reply right now. What i can easily comment on is that i find myself being more careful about stepping up toward only things i really really care about, and stepping back from things, people and battles that do not warrant my attention or energy. So i'm motivated to practice more mindfulness and discernment in the day-to-day. I'm also struggling with what the dominant culture feeds us about leadership (all the male pundits lining the shelves in the leadership/managment sections of bookstores), and what women's leadership looks like in practice -beyond the metaphorical contrasts of it being circular, relational, authentic, facilitative, blablabla - what the real deal is on the ground, in the minute-to-minute trenches of organizational politics, dysfunctional personality dynamics, hiring & firing, building teams, manipulation and motivation, bosses and colleagues, and other assorted messiness. I want to work this out a little more and post a more thoughtful reflection/questions that i would love to have others respond to.
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Permalink Reply by Susie-Q on -
Looking forward to it! On a personal note: In browsing periodicals, I see all the WOMEN icons of leadership on the cover of magazines with headliners such as "100 most powerful corporate women" or whatever and the stylish white women dressed in black business suits. I'm exhausted by women's leadership being understood as assuming the male role - in the way they dress and by the popular definition of success in terms of money and power. The images being presented by the media are just women trying to be men. It's a paradigm of success I've had to move completely away from - the way I approach my co-workers is different for me than it was 5 years ago as is the way I dress and my so-called career goals, too. I could go on...what's on YOUR mind?
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Permalink Reply by Allison Peak on -
Amen Sister,
I am sick of watching women pretending to be somebody they're not to just fit into the male dominate business world. This pretending even laps over into the academic world too. So many women perpetuate this status quo through fear and are not even aware of how harmful it is to them. It's insulting to me, and my fellow sisters, to be seen only as women and not as a person(s) first and foremost. So as a woman, if you want to work in the so-called man's world, you better conform to the status quo if you want to succeed in any capacity. This is just sexism at its best. But, so many of us are in deep denial that we keep on accepting what we are 'served' and in many cases with gratitude even if it is insulting or degrading. I think that there is still a large portion of us women(and I will include myself in this group)that need to make a major move and bust out! So what do you think?
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