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Leadership Coaching: Are We Missing The Alchemy?, Raymond L. Forbes Nov 2022

Leadership Coaching: Are We Missing The Alchemy?, Raymond L. Forbes

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In an era characterized by fear, uncertainty and doubt Leadership Coaches now find themselves operating on more difficult and unfamiliar terrain. Enabling their clients to cope, survive and thrive in such tenuous conditions offers a significant professional challenge. This paper offers an unusual supplemental approach to more conventional and traditional coaching methods. Utilizing principles derived from the ancient field of alchemy, as well as from modern neuroscience, this article provides both new ideas and guidance to the practitioner of leadership coaching. Beginning with a guided imagery, this piece will then cover the connection between alchemy and leadership, followed by alchemy’s …


Weeding Ebooks At An Academic Library (Presentation), Marc Jaffy Sep 2022

Weeding Ebooks At An Academic Library (Presentation), Marc Jaffy

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Libraries can improve their ebook collections by weeding them to remove outdated and irrelevant content. This presentation discusses an ebook weeding project at Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio. It discusses the reasons the library attempted an eweeding project, the obstacles it encountered, the decisions it made and the results of the project.


A Theory Of Brain-Based Followership, Raymond L. Forbes May 2022

A Theory Of Brain-Based Followership, Raymond L. Forbes

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Studies and theories of followership have tended to take a back seat to their more prominent cousin, leadership research. There does, however, seem to be considerable agreement among researchers about the integral role of the follower in co-determining organizational performance. Until relatively recently there has been little focus on the overall contriibution of the follower to organizational success. The intent of this paper is to shed new light on the current state of followership research, identify some of the critical issues that confound its findings, and to propose an alternate theoretical approach that is based in neuroscientific research. The suggested …