Paul D. Houston, Stephen L. Sokolow

The Empowering Leader

12 Core Values to Supercharge Your Leadership Skills

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Produktbeschreibung

How do you become a more empowering leader? Leaders need to supercharge their leadership skills to empower others to meet the demands of technological advances, globalization and rapid change. As you nurture these seeds of empowerment you will make better choices and increasingly become a more empowering leader.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781475833553
• ISBN-10: 1475833555
• Artikelnr.: 47589676

Autorenporträt

Stephen L. Sokolow, the executive director of the Center for Empowered Leadership, is a former superintendent of schools. He previously coauthored The Wise Leader as well as The Spiritual Dimension of Leadership. Dr. Sokolow and his wife, Laney, have two grown children and live in Allentown, New Jersey. Paul D. Houston is president of the Center for Empowered Leadership and Executive Director, Emeritus of the American Association of School Administrators. He is a prolific author and national speaker on education and leadership. Dr. Houston has three grown children and lives with his fiancée, Dr. Sandra Chapman, in Tucson, Arizona.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Core Value 1: Identifying,
Nurturing, and Using Our Unique Gifts and Talents ·Empowering Leaders Are
Aware that Everyone Has Unique Gifts and Talents ·Empowering Leaders
Develop Their Own Gifts and Talents ·Empowering Leaders Help Others
Cultivate Their Gifts and Talents ·Empowering Leaders Facilitate the
Sharing of Gifts and Talents ·Empowering Leaders Extend Gifts and Talents
·Uniqueness Contributes to the Tapestry of Life ·Our Higher Power Helps
Clarify Life's Purpose(s) Core Value 2: Understanding and Manifesting Our
Intention ·Intention Is a Fundamental Core Value of Empowering Leadership
·Thought Is More Important Than People Think ·Spoken and Written Words Are
Keys to Manifesting Intentions ·Empowering Leaders Must Align Their Actions
and Intentions ·Enlisting Spiritual and Non-spiritual Forces to Manifest
Intentions ·Using the 'Third Eye' to Manifest Intentions ·Empowering
Leaders Use Attention to Focus the Lens of Intention ·Empowering Leaders
Focus Energy to Manifest Intentions Core Value 3: Using Affirmation to Make
Things Happen ·Affirmation Is an Important Core Value for Empowering
Leaders ·Speaking Silently to Oneself Can Be a Useful Form of Affirmation
·Speaking Aloud Can Be a Useful Form of Affirmation ·Using Writing and
Other Visual Arts in Affirmation ·Affirming Intentions Through a Pledge or
Promise ·Repetition Can be a Useful Form of Affirmation ·Creating a Secular
Mantra ·Creating a Personal Mission Statement Is a Useful Form of
Affirmation ·Swearing an Oath Is a Powerful Form of Affirmation Core Value
4: Having A Sense of Mission or Purpose ·A Sense of Mission or Purpose Can
Drive Us Toward Our Best Destiny ·We Each Have a Special Role that
Contributes to the Whole of Life ·The Light of Empowering Leaders Helps
Others See Their Mission or Purpose ·A Sense of Mission or Purpose Helps Us
Stay the Course Through Hard Times ·A Sense of Mission or Purpose Helps Us
Take the Long View ·Empowering Leaders Are Agents of a Higher Purpose
·Empowering Leaders Are Supported by the Universe ·Manifesting Our Highest
Potential Core Value 5: Learning to Balance the Head and Heart ·Learning to
Feed the Head and the Heart ·Avoiding the Danger of Imbalance ·Leaders Must
Integrate the Head and the Heart ·Empowering Leaders Must Be Affective as
well as Effective ·Leaders' Actions Are Magnified ·Leaders Can Overcome a
Dominance of the Head ·Leaders Can Overcome a Dominance of the Heart
·Leaders Must Create a Culture Where the Head and the Heart Are Valued Core
Value 6: Manifesting Your Vision ·Leaders Must Use the Power of Thought to
Manifest Their Vision ·Visual Imagery Can Be Used to Help Leaders Manifest
Their Vision ·The Power of the Spoken Word Can Help Leaders Manifest Their
Vision ·The Power of Affirmation Can Be Used to Help Manifest Your Vision
·The Power of Prayer Can Help Manifest Your Vision ·The Powers of
Synchronicity, Intention, and Attention Can Help Manifest Your Vision ·The
Elements of Your Vision Can Be Assembled in a Non-linear Fashion
·Manifesting Your Vision Through Partnering with People and Your Higher
Power ·See Your Commitment to Your Vision as a Promise to Yourself and
Others ·Use the Energy of a Higher Power to Attract What Is Needed to
Manifest Your Vision ·The Way You View Things Is a Key to Manifesting Your
Vision Core Value 7: Visualizing Your Way to Success ·The Power of
Visualization ·Using Symbols in a Powerful Way ·Seeing with Your Third or
Inner Eye ·Using Mental Imagery to Solve Problems and Shape the Future
·Using Visualization as a Mental Rehearsal of a Desired Outcome ·Using
Visual Imagery to Foster Desired Outcomes ·Using Visualization as a
Meditative Technique Core Value 8: Using Expectation to Achieve Results
·Expectation Is an Important Value for Empowering Leaders ·Expectation
Helps Shape Reality ·High Expectations Should Start with Ourselves ·People
Will Strive to Justify Our Faith in Them ·Positive Expectations Foster
Positive Outcomes ·We Are the Mirrors Through Which Others See Themselves
·Others Are the Mirrors Through Which We See Ourselves Core Value 9:
Intuition-Discovering Our Hidden Knowledge ·Intuition Is an Important
Resource for Empowering Leaders ·Intuition Is Another Way of Knowing
·Empowering Leaders Should Strive to Trust Their Intuition and Feelings ·It
Is Helpful for Empowering Leaders to See Intuition as a Sixth Sense ·How
Empowering Leaders Can Become More Intuitive ·Intuition Is One of the Ways
We Receive Communication from Our Higher Self ·Ways Empowering Leaders Can
Assess How Intuitive They Are Core Value 10: Using Awareness to Expand Our
Perspective ·Awareness Is an Important Core Value for Empowering Leaders
·It Is Important for Empowering Leaders to Be Self-Aware ·Lenses of
Awareness Empowering Leaders Will Find Useful ·Expanding Our Repertoire of
Lenses of Awareness ·Trying to See from Multiple Vantage Points ·Expanding
Our Awareness and Field of Vision ·Some Indicators of Awareness ·Awareness
Involves Both Seeing and Understanding Core Value 11: Using Your Higher
Self to Tap into Your Inner Wisdom ·Our Higher Self ·An Inner Guiding Light
·Energizing Our Higher Self ·Accessing Our Higher Self ·Listening to Our
Higher Self ·Our Connection to Others ·Our Power Expands When We Act and
Speak in Accord with Our Higher Self ·Being Full of Power as Opposed to
Being Powerful ·Our Higher Self Endeavors to Guide Us to Do Our Best ·Our
Higher Self Helps Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves ·Our Higher Self
Helps Us Become Who We Really Are Core Value 12: Using Openness to Expand
Possibilities ·Openness Is a Core Value for Empowering Leaders ·The Higher
Aspects of Openness ·Empowering Leaders Create Open Systems ·Empowering
Leaders Must Be Open to Many Things ·Opening Your Heart and Mind ·Openness
Maximizes Growth and Creativity ·Openness Is the Key to Creating Infinite
Potentiality Bonus Chapter 1 : The Gift of Synchronicity-Our Hidden
Guidance System ·Understanding the Gift of Synchronicity ·Meaningful
Coincidences Help Shape Our Future ·Meaningful Coincidences Help Us Fulfill
our Life's Purpose(s) ·Increasing Our Awareness of Synchronicity
·Increasing Synchronicity in Our Lives ·Our Synchronistic Helpers
·Expecting the Unexpected ·The Rule of Two's or Three's Bonus Chapter 2:
The Gift of Syntropy-Constructive Action ·Syntropy Is an Important Gift for
Empowering Leaders ·Making the World Better Is an Important Principle for
Empowering Leaders ·Empowering Leaders Must Counter the Force of Entropy
·Finding Order and Opportunity Within Chaos and Disorder ·Fostering
Syntropy Within Your Organization ·Being a 'Strange Attractor' Afterword
About the Authors Selected Bibliography