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 use the Leadership Agility Compass
May 30, 2017 by Bill Joiner
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
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 […]
How to Practice the Art of “Stepping Back”
May 15, 2017 by Bill Joiner
Being absorbed in our work is a good thing in many ways, better than being distracted or feeling disengaged. Getting into the flow of our daily tasks is energizing, and it helps us get our work done with a certain level of efficiency and effectiveness. At the same time, we are so busy in our […]
New Leadership for New Times – Why we need to think differently about leadership development
April 24, 2017 by Bill Joiner
We’ve come to a point where we need to think differently about leadership development – in a way that doesn’t reject what we know and do already, but builds on it. Central to this re-think, we need to understand what’s so dramatically different about today’s turbulent business environment, and the new forms of leadership it […]
Do your Direct Reports Work together like a Real Team? Do they need to?
October 4, 2015 by Bill Joiner
In today’s companies, groups of direct reports are often called “teams.” Yet, quite frequently, they either don’t function as true teams, or they don’t engage in the level of teamwork needed to optimize their performance. Many “teams” might be more accurately called “staffs,” implying a group that serves as an extension of the manager to whom […]
