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Knowledge and Wisdom: A Practitioner’s Path To Flight Quick Links April, 2013 | by Shannon Schultz
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In the Fall of 2005, I had the unexpected privilege of shuttling Meg Wheatley to the Atlanta airport. Little did she know she was in for a 20-minute career counseling session for an ambitious and committed young me. I confessed to her a closely held conflict between what I was doing and what I thought I should be doing. I shared the strong and compelling voices telling me to pursue traditional paths of influence. About the grad school andaWisdom: A professor interested in sponsoring my doctorate, and my wondering about the wisdom• of Knowledge resigning from Practitioner’s To Flight Fortune 500 organization as rising talent in their high potential pool. I wondered out loud what had beenPath on my mind since I left ‘real’ employment: Wouldn’t it be smarter to be bolstering my experience and credentials with • A Ritual For Leaders:aThree large organization? Ancient Practices That Revitalize Everything After a thoughtful response to my internal conflict, she didn’t miss a beat before explicitly noting Joseph Campbell’s timeless counsel to follow your bliss and go where your heart takes you. • Gamefilming – Developing an Extraordinary Awareness to Becoming Highly As far as I could tell, that meant continuing on the road I was on. I was a newly independent consultant withEffe… venerable clients, leading large organizational change initiatives via internal corporate• teams. I offered aSelf change The Forgotten – Revisiting process that consistently created desired change through an internal, organic, facilitative Executive leadershipDevelopment approach. for the The work was aligned with my own sense of purpose and after just a couple of years, the21st practice was already a Century hardy container for personal growth and professional exploration. Dr. Wheatley’s advice was like a shot of ‘permission’ that renewed my sense of professional dignity. • The Leadership Imperative Fast-forward a few years and I’m returning home from The Leadership Circle certification determined to integrate these powerful tools into my portfolio of change management services. This was not easy. There was a lot to learn about what all this meant and how to make it useful to leaders and their change initiatives. Since then, I’ve spent my time in the deep end of the pool pursuing all of The Leadership Circle’s offerings, leadership and Popular Tagspath that relationship systems coaching certifications, and practicing. Looking back now, I can’t•imagine another would have made more sense.
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assessments, bob anderson, creative leadership flexibility, While The Leadership Circle framework can be a powerful foundation for transformation, knowing its ,ins-andouts—and being able to bring it to life with clients—is as different as knowledge and wisdom. This article will , highlight three distinct and subtle shifts I have noticed in my practice that seem to be increasing the impact with the leaders and teams I serve. Moving From Talking About It to Being About It
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The first subtle shift reminds me of how my personal trainer invites me to stop reporting my progress and start lifting weights: “OK Shannon, why don’t you stop talking about it and start being about it.” Getting to know the Leadership Circle framework started, for me, with a gradual deepening and eventual up leveling of my relationship to our beloved and berated ‘Reactive Tendencies.’
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