Are
people in your organization—company, school, association,
congregation—engaged toward advancing your collective mission?
Are people investing themselves—their time, creativity and
other resources—in ways that improve your organization's
effectiveness? Are you learning together, constantly growing
your combined capacity for meeting challenges and for seizing
opportunities? Building vibrant organizations and communities
in our increasingly complex world requires new leadership
strategies.
Click on Experience to see how we are helping community and organizational leaders.
Margaret
Wheatley, Author of ”Leadership and the New Science” puts
it this way:
“In
fact, in this day and age, when problems are increasingly
complex, and there simply are not simple answers, and there
is no simple cause and effect any longer, I cannot imagine
how stressful it is to be the leader and to pretend that
you have the answer.
A
leader these days needs to be a host, one who convenes people,
who convenes diversity, who convenes all viewpoints in processes
where our intelligence can come forth.
So
these kinds of leaders do not give us the answers, but they
help gather us together so that together we can discover
the answers.”
Fundamentally, opening space
is a decision and a commitment on the part of leaders,
to movement, via invitation and hosting. It is a step toward
building and nurturing a community of learning and practice.
Using Open Space, Touchstones Discussions and other
strategies, John Engle Associates helps groups thrive.
