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At the new Institute for Transformational Leadership at Georgetown University, we've been exploring the question, "what kind of leadership is needed in the 21st century?"  The answer to this question centers around an understanding of the need for shared leadership. Thanks to new technologies, virtual networks, flexible work policies, global issues and an increasingly complex environment for leaders to navigate, the leadership paradigm is shifting from the old hierarchical, top-down model where the person "on top" makes decisions and provides direction to others to a new model of collective leadership that asks people to bring their best knowledge, skills and abilities together to accomplish goals.   

Back by popular demand, I'm so pleased to feature Chris Wahl and Alex Caillet again next Monday to dig more deeply into the top of teams. In this program, you'll learn what makes a great team -- and what you can do to improve the one you're on. Please join us for a conversation that will bring you up-to-date on how you are thinking about leadership and work. 

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Kate Ebner
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Monday, July 29, 2013     

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Greater than the Sum of the Parts: The Secrets of High-Performing Teams (Part 2) with Guest Host Chris Wahl and Alexander Caillet 

  

Alexander Caillet Chris Wahl

 

Have you ever wondered what makes a team work? Leaders who are aware of the challenges and benefits of teams can lead more powerfully and make decisions that will maximize the effort of the collective. As team coaches know, without the foundations of common purpose, mutual accountability, and clear goals, even teams with talented people can get caught in conversations that go nowhere and create results that are less than desired. Great teams are made up of much more than individual skills. In the second part of their series on teams, guest host Chris Wahl and Alexander Caillet will explore some of the most important qualities of teams, and how both team leaders and members can cultivate those elements to create high performing teams that achieve desired results. Both Chris and Alexander are leadership coaches who have worked extensively with teams at a wide variety of organizations. Join them on July 29 for practical tips and strategies that can help your team perform for greater results.

 

Learn more about Alexander and Chris and tune into the show Monday! 
 
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Dr. Dave Goldberg: A Man on a Mission to Create a "Whole New Engineer"
by Rachel Wold

Dave Goldberg Dr. Dave Goldberg wants to change 3 major things about engineering: who studies it, how it's taught, and the emotional and cultural experience of engineering education. Dave and a partner have founded Big Beacon to support their mission of transforming engineering education to create "a whole new engineer." Guest host Nancy Lamberton spoke with Dave about his effort to transform his profession on the July 22 episode of Visionary Leader, Extraordinary Life. Read on to learn more about some of the cornerstones of the engineering revolution:

  

Change #1: Who are engineers?

One of of Big Beacon's major goals is to broaden potential students' ideas of who engineers are and what they do. This is critical for repopulating the pipeline of engineering students that has begun to run dry as students who see engineering as an unfeeling profession choose more and more to study what they see as more "human-focused" disciplines. Dave believes that creating greater diversity among engineers means including diversity of thought in addition to diversity of ethnicities and gender. He is adamant that "engineering shouldn't be limited to a certain personality type of way of thinking. When we say diversity, that means we want people who are linear thinkers as well as non-linear thinkers."

  

Change #2: How is engineering taught?

Dave is passionate about reframing the educational experience, not just for engineering students, but eventually, for all higher education. Engineering education is currently organized around the process of transforming students from novices without knowledge to experts with all the answers. In the current model, there is a great deal of emphasis on the professor as the leader of the experience and the holder / bestower of knowledge. Big Beacon champions a greater emphasis on the student as the captain of his or her own educational journey. One of the ways to create this shift is to place a higher burden on the student to come up with what she wants to study and place greater trust in the students, though they are still novices. Two of the undergraduate programs who are "beacons" of this type of progress are Olin College and the iFoundry program at Dr. Goldberg's own University of Illinois. 

  

Change #3: What is the emotional and cultural experience of learning to be an engineer like?  

In the current engineering education culture, the relentless focus on math and science, with their black-and-white, right-or-wrong grading system, doesn't leave much room for students to experiment or be vulnerable- an emotion Dave thinks is valuable for discovering the courage to trust oneself in the educational process. Dave is inspired by Brene Brown's work on vulnerability, in which she describes an affliction suffered by many academics and other experts in their fields who live in constant fear of being exposed as frauds. Dave would like to transform engineering education so it becomes a culture in which it's okay to be vulnerable and without the answer sometimes. Finally, Dave want students to think of engineering as less instrumental - building things for people- and more as a form of self-expression: "We want to ask students, 'What about engineering helps you express your identity?' 


Learn more about Big Beacon's mission to create a whole new engineer by reading their manifesto. Listen to the full radio show by clicking here or by downloading the free podcast on iTunes

Most of what people know about us is from the stories that we tell. Are the stories that your mentee tells serving them well and supporting their stated purpose or goals?  Click here for Nancy's tips on how mentors can help their mentees reframe their story to their own benefit.

July 26, 2013   
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Dave GoldbergHow do you inspire a whole education system to change? Find out on the July 22 episode of Visionary Leader, Extraordinary Life.

   

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On the roots of change:

"We tried to change the content and pedagogy but the real problem is cultural and emotional. We talk rationally about change but really, hearts change and then minds change.

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