The Manager's Pocket Guide to Spiritual Leadership: Transforming Dysfunctional Organizations into Healthy Communities (Manager's Pocket Guides)

This guide teaches all managers how to find the inspirational elements in their own work and the work their employees do. An innovative managerial prescription for combating the cynicism that reigns in today's organizations at all levels. Table of Contents 4 Preface 6 Introduction 10 Am I living in a dysfunctional organization? 10 Is it academic? 11 All we need is love 13 Wanted: remarkable people 15 I. How Do You Recognize a Healthy Community When You See One? 16 Introduction 16 How do you know a healthy community when you see one? 17 1. Physical indicators of a healthy community 17 2. Intellectual indicators of a healthy community 21 3. Emotional indicators of a healthy community 29 4. Spiritual indicators of a healthy community 36 II. Soul Models 40 Introduction 40 Russ Campanello: Merging technology with heart 41 Dr. Dorothea Johnson: A pioneer with determination 46 Dr. Barry Cohen: Innovation in the midst of crisis 50 Stuart Sendell: Community involvement with wit and wisdom 55 Sister Nancy Hoffman: Leadership with spirit and compassion 59 III. The Transformational Process 62 That “unsettled” feeling 62 Transformation Step 1: Understand the degree of your organization’s dysfunction 64 Transformation Step 2: Develop the discipline to use a systematic process 70 Transformation Steps 3 and 4: Increase readiness: assess organizational commitment and capacity to change 73 Transformation Step 5: Identify what great results look like: the Diagnosis phase 76 Transformation Steps 6 and 7: Involve people, benchmark possible solutions, and identify exemplars: the Design phase 78 Transformation Step 8: Impact the culture: the Delivery phase 82 Transformation Steps 9 and 10: Measure the results and take the long-term view: the Determination phase 86 Summary 90 Epilogue 92 Appendix A: Indicators of Healthy Communities 94 Appendix B: Possibilities Profile 102 Appendix C: Quality of Work Life Survey 110 References 124 Index 126 'The quality of life in organizations is deteriorating. People don't have a sense that their work has meaning. Cynicism reigns. People don't want to live and work in this way and organizations don't function optimally when they do. Leadership will need to attend to our source of enthusiasm and inspiration-our soul. A new style of leadership is required, one that makes collaboration, empowerment, and innovation possible. This guide provides methods for engaging in the transformational process. It contains practical ways to measure healthy communities, healthy people, and quality of work life, and is also grounded in reality. The authors have spent more than 25 years, in hundreds of organizations, seeking out and developing spiritual leaders.'--Resource description page.