Our topic today is personal capacity building. It seems to me that personal leadership is the umbrella for our personal capacity building. Specifically, under the rubric of one's own leadership of self, one can examine whether muscles need to be strengthened in the areas of:
personal finance
relationship dynamics
life work balance
career issues
health/wellness
parenting
cultural adaptability
Many programs and organizations encourage folks to just jump into one of these areas and strengthen the chosen one. At the Personal Leadership Institute, we advocate a holistic approach whereby we deconstruct who you are and what your life is like and then build it to your specifications with your existing strengths and passions. Usually what emerges from this process are areas where individuals want to build more capacity and thus from that organic process we are able to do very targeted, SUSTAINABLE work! I put the word sustainable in caps because we feel this is the missing element to personal growth work and leadership development work. How often have you attended a great training, workshop or even more extensive learning situation and yet within days, months or years, you have not retained what seemed so important at the time. We find that happens all too often. Yet, if you build your personal capacity and you have a plan that is tailored to your guiding values and passions, then it is ingrained in you. And, in fact, we advocate that you have a plan for constantly revising and revisiting your personal leadership plan.
It's your life. Are you going to just live it, or LEAD it?!!
Thoughts?
Ann
Ann Dinan, Ph.D., M.S.S.A., C.P.C.C.
The Deeper Leadership Institute