Our Unique Leadership Methodology

Being effective leaders in the current global reality requires different values, skills and experience than what leaders have brought to a September 10 world. An interdependent global economy requires a new leadership style that will evoke the best in people and teams.

The methodology of the Institute is to offer competency development to integrate leaders values, skills and experience — to build on one's vocational calling by adding interpersonal and relational competences as well as group/team and global competencies.

Our leadership competencies are cultivated through our consultation and training. Consider what Richard E. Boyatzis, says in The Competent Manager: A Model for Effective Performance: "A transformation must occur within an individual to enable her/him to learn a new competency."

These leaders will have 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 from their unique vocational calling, special gifts and governance.

We assist them by introducing a skillset of four levels of competencies: personal, relational, team/group and global.

Personal Competencies

Most of us want to develop ourselves, but challenging situations often stand in the way. We provide resources for personal and professional renewal to achieve balance, fulfillment, integrity and sense of meaning and purpose. We recognize all human beings in their uniqueness, need and capacity for transformation.

Competencies that are introduced incude:

• rediscovery of awe and wonder in daily life

• self-awareness of one's gifts and strengths and a healthy self esteem

• clarity of one's own needs and agenda as well as understanding the role and untapped potential of the unconscious

• balance and wellness in one's daily life

• resolving inner conflicts, anger, stress, and self-defeating behavior

• addressing fears: both of failure and success

• clarifying, assessing and communicating values, ethics and goals

• clarifying personal mission and writing a mission statement

• eliminating the dichotomy of a work self versus a true self

• a personal relationship to the earth and its resources

• economic well being

Interpersonal/Relational Competencies

We help men, women and youth clarify their life purpose, special talents and calling and apply their reflections effectively. We provide individuals, children, families, and career seekers with the tools, skills, and self confidence to treat one another with dignity and respect, love and compassion in a world desperately entangled in the subtle and overt use of coercion, manipulation, abuse and force to end disputes.

Competencies that are introduced include:

• compassionate listening

• ability to give and receive

• ability to reflect feelings and emotions in a way that is not alienating to others

• coaching and counseling ability

• understanding the role of untapped potential of the unconscious in relationships

• creating a support system for high personal and job satisfaction

• integrating one's spirituality in work and relationships

• developing tools for resolving gender and relationship issues

• reconciling estranged colleagues and family members

• sharing resources

• cultural sensitivity: awareness of brotherhood and sisterhood beyond perceived differences

Team/Group Competencies

Building on ten years of research and practice in consultation, mediation, conciliation and training in local and international institutions, we mentor seasoned and emerging leaders to introduce change in institutions. The workplace is a uniquely constructed environment with people of varying perspectives. The workplaces thus serves as a learning laboratory, a nexus, between people of diverse backgrounds, with unique and special opportunities to respect differences among people who would not ordinarily meet one another.

We help those interested in dialogue that moves beyond current societal understanding and practice.

Competencies that are introduced include:

• understanding how to introduce change in a small or large system

• changing with parallel development and the life cycle model

• having courage and discipline to refrain from individual action-taking

• understanding the role of untapped potential of collective unconscious in groups

• believing that collective problem-solving and learning provide better answers

• building community from intention and collective action beyond team building

• aligning people's and organizational vision, mission and goals

• learning the role of an individual in transformation in organizational life

• implementing change while keeping trust

• facilitating ethical, just, humane, economic and environmentally sustainable structures while appreciating diversity and intercultural sensitivity to ecological, peaceful, economic and social systems in the global marketplace

Global Competencies (all of the above, and:)

We provide research, consultation, mentoring and education for leaders who wish to provide business services as well as leaders who engage in pacific settlement of disputes, prevention and post-war peacebuilding. We offer resources to transform highly stressful situations.

Competencies that are introduced include:

• networking and working collaboratively with those who have a similar goal to build coalitions

• using envisioning and implementing vision as a way to resolve historic conflict and open the way to the new

• envisioning and living a global ethic based on compassion

• building a body politic of world citizens

• abolition of armed force from personal to global levels

• imaging and implementing new forms of cooperation for a post-competitive age

• participative decision making

• social consciousness in caring for the other

• linking individual renewal and responsibility to institutional, community, cultural, religious and global systems

• combination of an historic, restorative and visionary perspective

• consulting skills: entry, assessment, planning, implementing, follow up, evaluation

• experiencing intercultural sister and brotherhood

• interdependent thinking and acting from experience of oneness

• intimate communion with the earth and its resources

• conscience and accountability

• transparency

• global citizenship

• reconciliation across all divisions: gender, religion, culture, race, age, culture, ethnicity