Learning from Life: Turning Life's Lessons into Leadership Experience [Paperback]

It’s widely accepted in organizations that experience gained from job assignments and formal training helps managers develop their skills in such areas as implementing agendas, working through relationships, creating change, and increasing personal awareness. If you are a manager who has set developmental goals for yourself, you will be able to achieve those goals through skills you learn and practice both on and off the job. This guidebook shows you how experiences from family relationships, friendships, volunteer work, and personal avocations can enhance your professional growth and effectiveness. This guidebook is for both women and men, to help them achieve a richer and more fruitful interaction between work and personal life.7 The Pull of Work and Life

8 What You Can Learn from Nonwork Experiences

15 How Private Life Promotes Leadership Development

22 What Work Experience Can Teach About Life Skills

24 Make It All Work Together

26 Serving as a Role Model

28 From Life to Work and Back Again

28 Suggested Readings

29 Background

30 Key Point Summary

This series of guidebooks draws on the practical knowledge that the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) has generated, since its inception in 1970, through its research and educational activity conducted in partnership with hundreds of thousands of managers and executives. Much of this knowledge is shared-in a way that is distinct from the typical university department, professional association, or consultancy. CCL is not simply a collection of individual experts, although the individual credentials of its staff are impressive; rather it is a community, with its members holding certain principles in common and working together to understand and generate practical responses to today's leadership and organizational challengel“