The
Mission-Focused Leadership Program and Courses are for emerging and seasoned
leaders in workplaces, communities and institutional settings who
would like custom-designed guidance and teaching. Current
Schedule of Courses
Most leaders want to develop themselves, but challenging situations
often stand in the way. The Institute for Global Leadership provides
resources for personal and professional development to achieve balance,
fulfillment, integrity, sense of meaning and purpose. We recognize
all leaders in their uniqueness, need and capacity for transformation.
A leadership style is needed that will elicit the best in people
and teams. The methodology of the Institute is to offer competency
development to integrate leaders' values, skills and experience
— cultivating interpersonal and relational competencies as
well as group/team and global competencies.
This new breed of leaders has the confidence in themselves not
to impose their agendas on the groups with whom they work; rather
they will help their constituents actualize their own dreams. We
train leaders to lead eliciting the greatest strengths in others
for a shared vision. We assist them by introducing the skill set
of four levels of competencies.
Being effective leaders in the current workplace and community
reality requires different values, skills and experience than what
leaders have brought to a September 10 world. The conditions of
September 11th and its aftermath have caused moral numbing, burnout
from the stress of increased work hours, lack of balance and wellness
in people's lives, and fear of both emotional and physical violence
that escalates out of control when their fears become reality.
Mission-Focused Leaders step off the treadmill by building personal
time first in their daily lives. They learn to listen more effectively,
reflect on their roles and the latest business practices to learn
new competencies. Mission-Focused Leaders are practical idealists who
facilitate trusting, supportive environments to address a challenge
while keeping bottom line needs in mind.
For
more information, go to Coaching Leaders and Teams, click
here...
For
more information on Virginia Swain,
founder and director, Institute for Global Leadership
click here
To
learn more about Mission-Focused Leadership:
"Mission Possible! A Clear Statement of Purpose is an Important First Step in Breathing Life into a Business or Organization," by Virginia Swain, Worcester Telegram & Gazette's The Buzz, August 29, 2007
Virginia Swain and Brooke Bishara appear on TV 13 WCCA, Worcester Community Cable Access' program, Soapbox, June 2007
New
Leadership Models for Worcester, United States and the World: A
Call to Action Conference presented by Virginia Swain at the Beechwood Hotel, May 1, 2007
"Healthy
Companies Follow Through on Strategy" by Virginia Swain, Worcester Business Journal, April 30, 2007.
"What
Price Workplace Conflict? Injuring the Bottom Line"
by Virginia Swain, Worcester Business Journal, October 30, 2006.
"As I See It-Finding
Spirituality is a Remedy for Political Incivility" by Virginia
Swain, Worcester Telegram and Gazette, October 30, 2006.
"Finding
Peace Through Inner Strength: Worcester writer helps others
chart course in turbulent times," Worcester Telegram and
Gazette, September 1, 2006.
"Dedicated
Visionaries Keep Faith in World Governance." Worcester Telegram & Gazette, March 19, 2006.
"Learning
to Lead in Harmony." Worcester Telegram and Gazette,
March 14, 2005.
"Local
Expert Backs UN." Worcester Telegram and Gazette,
December 26, 2004.
"Partners
in Peace," Salve Regina, September 2002
Mission-Focused
Leadership Courses and Certificate Program
You
are invited to take one course or become part of the individualized
Certificate Program for busy people.
Scheduled
courses
Faculty: Virginia
Swain, Director, Institute for Global Leadership
Other
Articles of Interest on Mission-Focused Leadership:
Don’t bother putting leadership into people, by Joseph A. Raelin, Academy of Management Executive, 2004, Vol. 18, No. 3
‘‘I Don’t Have Time to Think!’’ versus the Art of Reflective Practice, by Joseph A. Raelin, REFLECTIONS, Volume 4, Number 1
The
Competent Manager: A Model for Effective Performance, by Richard
E. Boyatzis. Boyatzis states: "A transformation must occur
within an individual to enable her/him to learn a new competency."
Leaders
Learn to Heed the Voice Within, Fortune Magazine, August 22,
1994
The
Five Minds of a Manager, Harvard Business Review 81, no. 11
(November 2003) by Gosling and Mintzberg
The
Role of Reflection in Managerial Learning, By Kent W. Seibert,
Marilyn W. Daudelin
For
information on how to apply and register:
The
application process consists of interview, application, and discussion
with Virginia Swain, Director. Call 508-753-4172 or 508-245-6843
(mobile), or email vswain@global-leader.org
for more information.
Applicants
are asked to peruse Coaching
Leaders and Teams to assure resonance with the Institute for
Global Leadership's approach to leadership and development. Inquiries
are welcome.
Individual
course tuition rates are available upon request.
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