Paul D. Houston, Stephen L. Sokolow

Empowering Leader

12 Core Values to Supercharge Your Leadership Skills

• Gebundenes Buch

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: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781475833546
• ISBN-10: 1475833547
• Artikelnr.: 47485881

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
TalentsEmpowering Leaders Develop Their Own Gifts and TalentsEmpowering
Leaders Help Others Cultivate Their Gifts and TalentsEmpowering Leaders
Facilitate the Sharing of Gifts and TalentsEmpowering Leaders Extend Gifts
and TalentsUniqueness Contributes to the Tapestry of LifeOur Higher Power
Helps Clarify Life's Purpose(s)
Core Value 2: Understanding and Manifesting OurIntention
Intention Is a Fundamental Core Value of Empowering LeadershipThought Is
More Important Than People ThinkSpoken and Written Words Are Keys to
Manifesting IntentionsEmpowering Leaders Must Align Their Actions and
IntentionsEnlisting Spiritual and Non-spiritual Forces to Manifest
IntentionsUsing the 'Third Eye' to Manifest IntentionsEmpowering Leaders
Use Attention to Focus the Lens of IntentionEmpowering Leaders Focus Energy
to Manifest Intentions
Core Value 3: Using Affirmation to Make Things Happen
Affirmation Is an Important Core Value for Empowering LeadersSpeaking
Silently to Oneself Can Be a Useful Form of AffirmationSpeaking Aloud Can
Be a Useful Form of AffirmationUsing Writing and Other Visual Arts in
AffirmationAffirming Intentions Through a Pledge or PromiseRepetition Can
be a Useful Form of AffirmationCreating a Secular MantraCreating a Personal
Mission Statement Is a Useful Form of AffirmationSwearing 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 DestinyWe Each
Have a Special Role that Contributes to the Whole of LifeThe Light of
Empowering Leaders Helps Others See Their Mission or PurposeA 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 PurposeEmpowering Leaders Are Supported by the
UniverseManifesting Our Highest Potential
Core Value 5: Learning to Balance the Head and Heart
Learning to Feed the Head and the HeartAvoiding the Danger of
ImbalanceLeaders Must Integrate the Head and the HeartEmpowering Leaders
Must Be Affective as well as EffectiveLeaders' Actions Are MagnifiedLeaders
Can Overcome a Dominance of the HeadLeaders Can Overcome a Dominance of the
HeartLeaders 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 VisionVisual
Imagery Can Be Used to Help Leaders Manifest Their Vision The Power of the
Spoken Word Can Help Leaders Manifest Their VisionThe Power of Affirmation
Can Be Used to Help Manifest Your VisionThe Power of Prayer Can Help
Manifest Your VisionThe Powers of Synchronicity, Intention, and Attention
Can Help Manifest Your VisionThe Elements of Your Vision Can Be Assembled
in a Non-linear FashionManifesting Your Vision Through Partnering with
People and Your Higher PowerSee Your Commitment to Your Vision as a Promise
to Yourself and OthersUse the Energy of a Higher Power to Attract What Is
Needed to Manifest Your VisionThe Way You View Things Is a Key to
Manifesting Your Vision
Core Value 7: Visualizing Your Way to Success
The Power of VisualizationUsing Symbols in a Powerful WaySeeing with Your
Third or Inner Eye Using Mental Imagery to Solve Problems and Shape the
FutureUsing Visualization as a Mental Rehearsal of a Desired OutcomeUsing
Visual Imagery to Foster Desired OutcomesUsing Visualization as a
Meditative Technique
Core Value 8: Using Expectation to Achieve Results
Expectation Is an Important Value for Empowering LeadersExpectation Helps
Shape RealityHigh Expectations Should Start with OurselvesPeople Will
Strive to Justify Our Faith in ThemPositive Expectations Foster Positive
OutcomesWe Are the Mirrors Through Which Others See ThemselvesOthers Are
the Mirrors Through Which We See Ourselves
Core Value 9: Intuition-Discovering Our Hidden Knowledge
Intuition Is an Important Resource for Empowering LeadersIntuition Is
Another Way of KnowingEmpowering Leaders Should Strive to Trust Their
Intuition and FeelingsIt Is Helpful for Empowering Leaders to See Intuition
as a Sixth SenseHow Empowering Leaders Can Become More IntuitiveIntuition
Is One of the Ways We Receive Communication from Our Higher SelfWays
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 LeadersIt Is Important
for Empowering Leaders to Be Self-AwareLenses of Awareness Empowering
Leaders Will Find UsefulExpanding Our Repertoire of Lenses of
AwarenessTrying to See from Multiple Vantage PointsExpanding Our Awareness
and Field of Vision Some Indicators of AwarenessAwareness Involves Both
Seeing and Understanding
Core Value 11: Using Your Higher Self to Tap into Your Inner Wisdom
Our Higher SelfAn Inner Guiding LightEnergizing Our Higher SelfAccessing
Our Higher Self Listening to Our Higher SelfOur Connection to OthersOur
Power Expands When We Act and Speak in Accord with Our Higher SelfBeing
Full of Power as Opposed to Being PowerfulOur Higher Self Endeavors to
Guide Us to Do Our BestOur Higher Self Helps Us Become Better Versions of
OurselvesOur Higher Self Helps Us Become Who We Really Are
Core Value 12: Using Openness to Expand Possibilities
Openness Is a Core Value for Empowering LeadersThe Higher Aspects of
OpennessEmpowering Leaders Create Open SystemsEmpowering Leaders Must Be
Open to Many ThingsOpening Your Heart and MindOpenness Maximizes Growth and
CreativityOpenness Is the Key to Creating Infinite Potentiality
Bonus Chapter 1 : The Gift of Synchronicity-Our Hidden Guidance System
Understanding the Gift of SynchronicityMeaningful Coincidences Help Shape
Our FutureMeaningful Coincidences Help Us Fulfill our Life's
Purpose(s)Increasing Our Awareness of Synchronicity Increasing
Synchronicity in Our LivesOur Synchronistic HelpersExpecting the
UnexpectedThe Rule of Two's or Three's
Bonus Chapter 2: The Gift of Syntropy-Constructive Action
Syntropy Is an Important Gift for Empowering LeadersMaking the World Better
Is an Important Principle for Empowering Leaders Empowering Leaders Must
Counter the Force of EntropyFinding Order and Opportunity Within Chaos and
DisorderFostering Syntropy Within Your OrganizationBeing a 'Strange
Attractor'
Afterword
About the Authors
Selected Bibliography