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Workshops Growing Wisdom: Leadership Development as a Core Leadership Practice Convener: Jennifer Garvey Berger, Partner, Kenning Associates Date: November 20, 2009 Time: 4 hours, TBD Application available October 30-November 5. Description: Each of us has a felt understanding of the difference between those who get wiser with experience and those who simply get older. But often this felt understanding doesn’t translate into a firm practice base: we can see wisdom, and we can see its lack, but our work to grow it in ourselves and inspire it in others can often feel hit-or-miss. Theories of adult development can fill in the gap between our intuition and our practice. As leaders taking time out to grow your thinking and your store of knowledge, this begs twin questions: 1. How I grow my own wisdom and 2. How can I lead in such a way that inspires the growth of wisdom in others and in my team? Theories of adult development—especially theories that describe both the stages of growth and also the process by which growth occurs—can offer new maps to our understanding of the mysterious terrain of human sense-making, shedding light on the internal logic of ourselves—and of those we lead into the future. In this interactive workshop, we’ll use a powerful look at adult development theory combined with leadership development practice to uncover new spaces of possibility for promoting our own growth and the growth of those we lead. Click here for the program syllabus. Faith and Leadership in a Complex World Convener: Diana Eck, Marshall Ganz, Nitin Nohria, and Dr. Bernie Steinberg Date: January 19-22, 2010 Time: TBD Description: The questions of leadership—What am I called to do? What is my organization called to do? What we are called to do now?—are at least as old as Moses’ conversation with God at the burning bush. “Why me?” asks Moses, when called to free his people. And, “Who or what is calling me? Why these people? Who are they anyway? And, why here, now, in this place?” Leaders seek to engage and motivate others to achieve purpose in complex, elusive situations where overarching goals and outcomes are far from certain. The action of leadership then is both internal and external. It requires internal exploration of values—what matters emotionally (and so motivationally) as well as the source of those values. Such internal exploration informs our capacity to make external choices and act in the world. Participants in this workshop will explore three dimensions of leadership:
We will examine explicitly the role of faith and spirituality in each of those dimensions. The workshop will consist of four days of intensive work—individually, and in community with other participants. Our work will include close reading and interactive discussion of narratives of leaders from various religious traditions, personal reflection, leadership case studies, writing, construction of personal and public narratives, and film screenings. Participants should expect to do 1–2 hours of work outside of our time together each day. Participants should expect to emerge from this experience with:
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Foundations of Leadership: The Inner Journey Convener: 3D Leadership Group Dates/Time: Kickoff Session (choose one) Sept. 28, 6:00–8:30 P.M. Sept. 30, 6:00–8:30 P.M. Group Sections (choose one section) Thursdays: Oct. 15, Oct. 22, Nov. 12, Nov. 19 Section 1: 8:30–11:00 A.M. Section 2: 12:00–2:30 P.M. Section 3: 4:00–6:30 P.M. Fridays: Oct. 16, Oct. 22, Nov. 13, Nov. 20 Section 4: 8:30–11:00 A.M. Section 5: 12:00–2:30 P.M. Description: “Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.” - Warren G. Bennis What Warren Bennis alludes to in his quote is that leadership is highly personal. The interpersonal and intrapersonal dimensions of leadership, or emotional and social intelligence (EQ), have come to the forefront of leadership development initiatives. The basic building block of emotional intelligence is self-awareness which requires that we solicit and integrate feedback from others in a constructive way. This program is designed to provide feedback through three diagnostic instruments supplemented by peer coaching and group debriefs. Reading assignments and individual pre-work create additional opportunities to reflect on your leadership approach and the impact you have on others. By the end of the workshop, you will be able to identify:
The workshop will be offered in five sessions. At the first session, you will receive a binder with pre-reading materials and instructions for completing the on-line confidential assessments. The cost to participate in the program is $200.00. For more information, visit the main workshop page. Applications for this workshop are now closed. Study Groups Faith and Social Entrepreneurship in the Inner City: Identity, Empowerment, and Affiliation Convener: Leonardo Radomile, Executive Director of Put Faith to Work Dates: October 1, 15, 22, & 29 Time: 6:00-8:00pm Description: The power of faith drives personal transformation and political leadership in the inner city. But it has yet to impact economic development and academic underachievement in a significant way. Recently, a number of faith-based social enterprises have begun using faith and the social support systems of the inner-city church to develop new businesses, take others to scale, and even transform chronically failing truants into successful college students. We will explore how the religious metanarrative can be used to reframe despair to confidence, produce a matrix for the acquisition of high level skills, reinforce positive identity, and provide the support systems critical to personal, community, and economic development. This four segment study group will be led by Harvard Kennedy School and Divinity School graduate, Leonardo Radomile, Executive Director of Put Faith To Work, a faith-based entrepreneurship program developed in cooperation with the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston, Inc. Application period has now closed. Activist Value Creation: Applying Private Equity Tools and Techniques to Non-profit and Social Enterprises Convener: Jeffrey C. Walker, Chairman of the board of Millennium Promise Dates: October 27, November 10, December 8 & 15, 2009 Time: 6:00-8:00pm Description: A number of the practices typically used by private equity and venture capital firms to vet, fund, manage, grow to scale, and evaluate their investments can be successfully applied to organizations committed to transformational social change. Through case studies and discussion, this study group will explore how such practices translate into the social sector, and how they sometimes need to be adapted to suit the context. Discussion topics will include: the role of activist board members, management transition/succession, employee talent identification and development, international operations, innovation, vision/strategy used to focus activities, moving from local to national models, shared services models, board governance, donor reporting, fund raising/development (consumer/major donors/corporations/foundations), building linkages to other nonprofits to work in common cause, awareness building, measurement of effectiveness, mergers in the nonprofit world. Application period has now closed. The Advocate’s Craft: Developed by Women Waging Peace Convener: Swanee Hunt, Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy Dates: October 1, 15, 22, 29, 2009 Time: 6:10-8:00pm Description: Advocacy is a planned, deliberate, and sustained effort to advance an agenda for change. This study group will expose you to the advocacy skills and activities required for successful work. In addition, it will provide interactive opportunities to dissect and reflect on your own experiences--positive as well as negative--as an advocate or as the object of others' advocacy. And you will be able to put your experiences within a theoretical framework to understand how gender plays a role in long-term social change. The material draws on Ambassador Hunt's decades of experience as a leading advocate for inclusion of women in the peace and security arena. Particularly, she will draw on concrete lessons of her Washington-based Institute for Inclusive Security. Men add a critical dimension to this exploration and are more than welcome to join. Tentative Syllabus Session I: Life and death advocacy: In this session we’ll examine advocacy related to war and peace, question whether it is gendered, and look at possible implications of that answer for the field of conflict prevention and resolution. Then we will turn to the principal components of successful advocacy, both constructive and adversarial. Session II: Building a coalition: You will map advocacy stakeholders and reflect on your past successes and challenges in creating coalitions and sustaining them over time. You’ll craft policy recommendations, instructed and inspired by examples of women's successful advocacy in Afghanistan, Iraq, Liberia, Northern Ireland, and Sudan. Session III: Managing your message. Successful advocacy rests on your ability to deliver a succinct and penetrating message, mobilizing others to support your cause. You need to develop different messages for your varied audiences—from your colleagues and allies to policy makers and media. This hands-on session will feature mock advocacy meetings with media, as well as UN, State Department, and White House leaders. Session IV: Crafting your strategic plan. Having built a collation and developed your message, you now turn to implementing your agenda. You’ll look at various models for conflict-sensitive policy analysis, define policy recommendations, and build a plan that includes objectives, activities, coordinators, timelines, as well as next steps for turning that plan into concrete action. Facilitator’s biography: Swanee Hunt, Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy, is a specialist on women in leadership, formal and informal. She has worked with women leaders in more than 60 countries. The Founding Director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School, she is currently a senior advisor (on human trafficking) to the Carr Center for Human Rights. She chairs the Washington-based Institute for Inclusive Security, conducting research, training, and advocacy to integrate women into peace processes. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Hunt served as the U.S. Ambassador to Austria. She is the author of the award-winning This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace, as well as a memoir, Half-Life of a Zealot, both published by Duke University Press. Appplication period has now closed. Self-Defined Leadership: Looking Back to Effectively Lead Forward Convener: Marjorie E. Blum, Ph.D. Dates/Times: This study group has been rescheduled for the spring semester. Description: To be a leader in any setting, it is critical to know who we are - from the inside–out. Our personal history shapes and guides us. The impact of our most primary group, our family, is often ignored as we explore our leadership roles. Instead of simply focusing on leadership skills, this course will help participants more deeply understand the historic family factors that influence leadership style. In the workshop, we will examine the “invisible” beliefs, dynamics and roles “inherited” from our unique families, creating a three generational family diagram (genogram) which makes these patterns clear. Finally, the course will review methods and techniques for self management in the face of group and internal demands. Open to HKS students only. For more information about Dr. Blum, please visit her website at www.selfdefinedleadership.com. Application will be available for the spring semester. Applying to CPL Workshops and Study Groups Applications are available through the CPL website or through invitation emails sent to HKS students. The online applications are made available through a SurveyMonkey.com link and are typically open for up to one week, but may close early if demand is sufficient. Apply early to ensure consideration for a spot in the program. Selection factors are different for some programs and are noted in the application. If not by lottery, selection is made based upon interest and experience with the subject matter. Please contact us if you have any questions about this process. In the past three years, 90% of our programming has been oversubscribed. We ask that you accept a spot in the program only if you have confirmed that you have no scheduling conflicts and agree to attend all sessions and participate fully with the group. If you are unable to attend all sessions, we ask you to give that spot to someone who can. You will receive an email notifying you of your selection or waitlist status. If offered a spot, you will need to confirm within 24 hours, or we will offer the space to the next waitlisted person. These guidelines are to ensure fairness and consideration for the workshop or study group applicants, administrators, and facilitators. |
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