The CU BeTrue Leadership Challenge is a free professional development opportunity at Clemson aimed at solving individual leadership challenges with collective creativity. Organized around your lunch-time or after-work availability, students, faculty and staff form Coaching Circles and practice a small group leadership technique that helps you join forces with unlikely allies and benefit from diverse perspectives. The time commitment is one hour per week for six weeks, February 8 – March 31, and attendance at one orientation session
-5-7 p.m. on Feb. 1, or
-Noon-2 p.m. or 5-7 p.m. on Feb. 3.
Coaching Circles will not meet the week of Spring Break.
How is it different from other small group methods?
1. It moves dialog from download and debate to empathy and collective creativity.
2. It levels the power field by giving equal value to each participant; no one dominates.
3. It encourages sharing from one’s own experience and discourages advice-giving.
4. It uses empathic dialog to create relational safety and access to a greater wisdom.
5. It uses silence, intention, and improvisation to form the ground of collective creativity and synergy.
6. Each group member gives and receives in equal measure.
REGISTER online at http://www.clemson.edu/be-true/leadership-challenge.html to schedule your orientation and coaching circle.
