Moving Forward Together, Stronger
Barry Lewis Green
Educator, Speaker, Coach, Writer, Creator ... advancing Character Leadership and Education ... to move forward together, stronger ... engaging change.
I invite you to check out this on why the circular economy is the business opportunity of our lifetime. I also invite you to check out this post from Suzanne Murdock on latest trends in the workplace. And, I invite you to check out this past post on 9 trends that will last... and this on the coming and needed Creativity Boom. And, might as well check out this, posthumously offered from Sir Ken Robinson. and the Global Goals. We are living in times where we need move forward, together, stronger.
Over the last couple of days, I posted on 7 virtues for the week; including Boldness. Candor, Caring, Certitude, Charity, Cheerfulness and Cleanliness. I humbly encourage the read and reflect, and the action following suit. Indeed, I think these virtues matter in our journey to find and build our way.
Affecting Change
This morning in Organizational Behaviour, I was engaging my students on values, attitudes and change. I was dialoguing on three elements in affecting such; cognitive, affective, and behavioral.
In order to affect attitudinal change in ourselves or others, we must needs think upon our attitudes, feel upon them and act upon them.
Reading and reflecting requires a Boldness and Candor to truthfully discern on our values and attitudes. It take Courage and Honesty to do that. To be willing to test on that for which we are certain (getting clear on our own best and true Certitude) requires that Boldness and Candor in our Discernment. True and tested Faith requires nothing less.
To reflect cognitively demands these qualities noted above. Then to consider how we feel on values and attitudes... it demands our best practice of Caring. Discerning on our most honest and clear feelings (not simply thoughts) demands that we consider what truly matters most to us. The litmus test of Caring, it matters. Getting clear on what we think and feel about something, being willing to question our thoughts and feelings... might just get us to initiating new actions and habits to explore same.
As I wrote on thoughts around my own health and that of the world recently, I have had to work through old habits cognitively and affectively... and begin to explore behaviours and habits going forward. As I consider my own path forward towards 70 (8 years away), I have had and continue to have to reflect on my thinking and feeling and behaviour to, in turn, affect my own necessary growth pursuing what matters most to me. It was and is part of what I was musing on in Simple Business. I must consider what habits and actions need be left behind and what needs to replace same.
Building the Bridge
As I initiate work around my modest but loved abode (pics soon, lol), and my work on my own health... my thought to you this day is that change and growth are important to life and the living of it ... individually, organizationally, locally and globally. Human history is filled with such moments of need, personally and collectively. We do not "go back". We are living in the kinds of times where we need such reflection and action, more than ever. Let us do the internal and external work, to find our way... for ourselves and those who come after us. Let us discern, individually and collectively, on what we let go, keep and add. Let us be known as the people that bridged the world into a better future. I will gather my own thus far collected and gathered thoughts and feelings and reflections around which I am discerning on a better world. Let us continue to dialogue, and build.
We can do this.
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I?am an Activant too; an Educator and Entrepreneur by experience, education and?Enthusiasm... with 40 years in leadership training and development, 27 years in business college education and 20 years certified and associated with?The Virtues Project. Additionally certified for 16 years in Temperament Assessment and with a longstanding body of work around Character Leadership, I help advance?conversation, consultation and capacity around?Character,?Purpose?and?Unity...?and?the?global goals. My work in business and education is to help those building a better world at school, work, business and community; locally and globally.?Humans together, strong.... that is?my?meaning... and?the space I can stay forever. To that?just cause, I commit.