Leadership 2020 Newsletter: Knowledge transfer and succession planning

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– by Annemarie Travers, Leadership 2020 Hosting Team At some point or another, we all leave our positions—we change roles, get a promotion, find a new job, or retire. And, during these transitions, we often focus on tidying up loose ends and preparing for the next thing instead of thinking about what (and wh ...Read More

Leadership 2020 Newsletter: Working in Complexity

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– by Chris Corrigan, Leadership 2020 Hosting Team Leadership has always been about wise action that lasts. Our groups, communities, and organizations are trying to create a better more sustainable future but our context—the world around us and the problems we’re facing—is full of complexity and ...Read More

Federation Webinar Guide

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This guide will help you take part in Adobe Connect webinar meetings with The Federation. Follow the steps in order to prepare for and participate in online webinar meetings. Please note that Federation webinar meetings may be recorded for training and/or future viewing purposes and may be shared with our membership and oth ...Read More

Leadership 2020 Newsletter: Mindfulness

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We held our first Leadership 2020 design session all the way back in 2010. We had already done research, surveys, and program reviews in the preceding two years, but we needed something more. So we brought together 15 people willing to disrupt the typical approaches to leadership development and training. Some cam ...Read More

Leadership 2020 updates: new cohort, new program, new website

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Last week in this space I briefly touched on some new developments with the Leadership 2020 program. This week, I want to go into more detail about what the future holds for The Federation’s custom-built leadership development program. Program Background The Leadership 2020 program began over f ...Read More

2020 Reflections – On creativity

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Adam Grant is one of my favourite organizational psychology authors. He is a professor in the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania and has been making his mark by challenging us to think differently about ourselves and our organizations. I shared some insights gleaned from his first book, Give and Take i ...Read More

2020 Resources – New learning and development opportunities

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1) Leadership Mind with Caitlin Frost Leadership 2020 core faculty member Caitlin Frost is launching Leadership Mind a new practice based, 10-month immersion in the transformative practice of The Work of Byron Katie, exploring and expanding personal leadership capacity. “Following the conscious desi ...Read More

2020 Resources – Five Ways to Boost Your Resilience at Work

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Five Ways to Boost Your Resilience at Work by Rich Fernandez There is a burgeoning phenomenon of ‘quick fix’ articles and books that promise nirvana with lists of the “5 ways to make your life better” or “3 things you need to do to achieve perfection” and other unsustainable or unrealistic ‘promises’. Life is just t ...Read More

2020 Resources – Chief Dr. Robert Joseph: My Vision for Canada

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Presentation to Pathways for Reconciliation Conference, June 2016 I strongly urge you to listen to this extraordinary presentation by one of the great leaders of this time in history. Let’s start with who Chief Dr. Robert Joseph is. Chief Dr. Robert Joseph is hereditary chief of the Gwawaenuk First Na ...Read More

Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful Practices for Leaders

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Simple Habits for Complex Times – Powerful Practices for Leaders (2015), by Jennifer Garvey Berger and Keith Johnston. Stanford Business Books: Stanford, CA. “Damn!” is the first word in Simple Habits for Complex Times. And with this, we are ushered into the world of Yolanda, the CEO of a child welfare agency, and her team o ...Read More