Bill Joiner’s Leadership Agility Blog
Continued writing with occasional podcasts on Leadership Agility, the research-based book on stages of personal and leadership development. This blog captures and extends the book's key ideas; shares new insights, research, and applications from client work. Comments welcome! You can also follow Bill on Twitter: @leaderagilityHow to Shift from Blame to Learning
July 5, 2017 by Bill Joiner
Filed under Applications of Leadership Agility, Leadership coaching, Leadership development, What is Leadership Agility?
When things don’t go well in organizational life, it is ever so easy to react by blaming others. For example, we may have a difficult conversation with a co-worker who seems, again, to dismiss our point of view. We wind up feeling “unheard,” frustrated, and possibly even insulted. We react (inwardly, if not outwardly) by […]
Leadership Agility and “Vertical Development”
June 12, 2017 by Bill Joiner
Filed under Applications of Leadership Agility, Leadership coaching, Leadership development, Research on Agility, Roots of Leadership Agility
People who begin to delve into the book, Leadership Agility, are often curious about its relationship to stages of personal development (what some are now calling “vertical” development). Especially the earlier work that Bill Torbert did on the links between developmental stages and leadership. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, when Torbert did most of this work on […]
How to use the Leadership Agility Compass
May 30, 2017 by Bill Joiner
Filed under Applications of Leadership Agility, Leadership coaching, Leadership development, Research on Agility, What is Leadership Agility?
The Leadership Agility Compass is a graphic tool developed by ChangeWise, that emerged from the 5 years of intensive research and writing underlying the book, Leadership Agility. When you know how to use it, it’s a tool that can make any leadership initiative you undertake more effective. Our research on Leadership Agility found that the most effective leaders we […]
Perspective-Taking as a Leadership Practice
May 24, 2017 by Bill Joiner
Filed under Applications of Leadership Agility, Leadership coaching, Leadership development
Some leadership coaches help their clients expand their “perspective taking” ability, even if they don’t use this term. “Perspective taking” is linked to a body of research – now stretching back many decades – called “stage development psychology” (think Jean Piaget, Jane Loevinger, Bob Kegan). This field is getting increasing attention from coaches and leadership […]
