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LeaderLens
June 29, 2011Twitter hashtag #LeaderLens
Becoming & Belonging- the underpinnings of sustainable change
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Ashley WelchDirector, Leadership & SustainabilityInteraction Associates
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Restlessness Picture of water,
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Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why.
If you do not have things right in your life
you will be overwhelmed:you may be heroic, but you will not be
wise.
If you have things right in your lifebut do not know why,
you are just lucky, and you will not movein the little ways that encourage good
fortune.
The saddest are those not right in their lives
who are acting to make things right for others:
They act only from the self –and that self will never be right;
no luck, no help, no wisdom.
-William Stafford
The little ways that encourage good fortune
Belonging & Becoming: what do you mean and how is it related to sustainability and organizational success?1
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Belonging = thinking and acting from a
sense of interconnectedness
Sustainability = surviving and thriving
over time
The fact that we are interconnected means that we can only survive and
thrive together
2What are the principles of a culture of belonging?
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Sees the whole
Looks from many perspectives
Works WITH change
Becomes a collaborative community through:•Strategic alliances,•leadership development,•Employee fulfillment, •Community & customer outreach
Builds a culture in which:•Personal passions are engaged•Shared purpose is developed•Transparency is encouraged•There is a collective alignment and identity
Fosters systematic renewal through:•Learning and innovating•Empowerment of members
Culture of Belonging Principles & Actions for Sustainable Change
Principles Actions
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Builds Skills
Promotes an integral sustainability.
Creates stakeholder engagement at all levels, including:•Policy makers, •employees, •customers, •suppliers, etc.
Balances profit with long-term thinking by:•Balancing needs of all stakeholders•Maintaining the health and security of employees•Reducing through-put
Principles Actions
Culture of Belonging Principles & Actions for Sustainable Change
3 How do leaders create cultures of Belonging?
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Skilled Vulnerability
CONNECT
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LISTENEar
You
Eyes
Undivided Attention
Heart
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DISCOVER
Arab Spring
Arab Music Festival
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When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,
and when we escape like squirrels turning in the
cages of our personalityand get into the forests again,
we shall shiver with cold and frightbut things will happen to us
so that we don't know ourselves.
Cool, unlying life will rush in,and passion will make our bodies taut with
power,we shall stamp our feet with new power
and old things will fall down,we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up
likeburnt paper
- D.H. Lawrence
Escape
July 20, 2011Carol Sanford, The Responsible Business
September 14, 2011Brooke Deterline, Heroic Imagination
Project
October 19, 2011Karlin Sloan, UNFEAR- Executive Coaching & Sustainability
November 16, 2011Bettina Gordon, Wisdom from our Indigenous
Elders
December 14, 2011Melinda Weekes, Cross Sector Collaboration
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Ashley WelchDirector, Leadership & Sustainability
Twitter hashtag #leaderlens
Thank You!Webinar on demand at:interactionassociates.com/ideas