In the final session, Dr. Steve Patty reminds us to celebrate our accomplishments during this series on leadership development. We’ve gone through a lot together and it’s important to remember every step and recognize the progress you were able to make, even the small ones. Growing, developing and leading yourself is certainly not an easy thing to do. Sometimes we feel discouraged or feel we’re moving backwards despite our best intentions to move forward. But remember, any steps forward is worth celebrating.
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Why is it hard to move forward in your growing edge? You may be really committed to progressing your growing edge but you are still feeling like there is still something weighing you down preventing you from moving forward. There are theorists out of Harvard University that uses the metaphor of immunity to describe this feeling.
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In this session, we will be looking at what you don’t know about yourself. You can only see what you can see from your own vantage point. When thinking about your growing edge, what would it be like to see things from a new or different perspective? Might you be able to see things about yourself you can’t see right now? Marty Linsky and Ronald Heifetz from the Harvard Kennedy School uses the metaphor, get on the balcony. Our lives are on the dance floor and we “dance” through the day without taking time to get on the balcony and observe your life and your dance. What would it be like to get off the dance floor and get on the balcony to observe yourself? The balcony perspective can give you insight into how you are progressing in your growing edge and what you can be doing differently.
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In this session, we will be looking at how to use holding environments to develop your growing edge. When you step into change or a new challenge, you may be creating discomfort for yourself which typically makes us want to run, disengage and ultimately stop working. How do we keep moving ourselves into the challenge of developing our growing edges while experiencing discomfort?
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The sixth vlog of this series is with Kate Hodgson and Sukh Shergill.
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In this session, we will be looking at how to continue to move forward and develop in your growing edge. We will be starting in an unlikely place: resistance. As much as you need encouragement and the right environment, you also need resistance to help you progress and develop your growing edge.
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The fourth vlog of this series is with Nancy Farries, Vice President of RDC with YMCA of Greater Vancouver, and Margo Byrne, President & CEO of the Channel Islands YMCA.
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Now that you have identified your growing edge, it's time to explore how to move forward and develop your ability to evolve in this area. How do we pursue the things we want to pursue in life? How do you become the person you want to be in life? How do we let go of the things that no longer serves a purpose for us? And finally, how do we show up in new kinds of ways that can help us be the best we can be? These are the kinds of thoughts we need to have in order to work on our growing edge and ourselves.
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The third vlog of this series is with Jennifer Gray-Grant, Executive Director of Collingwood Neighbourhood House, and Kahir Lalji, Provincial Director of Population Health with United Way of the Lower Mainland.
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Characteristics of a Growing Edge:
It’s about you, not your team or organization
It’s not a technical skill to get better, but rather a personal capacity to develop
It’s oriented towards having an impact or in service to something significant
It pushes you into a zone of “stretch” or “productive discomfort”
If you could make progress on your growing edge it would have implications in many areas of your life and/or work
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