Vincentian Themes
The Power of God’s Grace: Compassion, Forgiveness and Reconciliation in the Early Vincentian Mission and in Our Lives Today as Vincentian Leaders
The experience of forgiveness is at the root of the Vincentian mission. We consider how a process of forgiveness can move us beyond our mistakes to renewed energy and productivity in our workgroup.
Servant-Leadership in the Manner of St. Vincent de Paul
Robert Greenleaf’s concept of servant-leadership is the context for deepening our understanding of . Vincent de Paul’s leadership practices.
Spiritual Leadership Lessons from the Life Journey of St. Vincent de Paul
We explore the relationship between spirituality and leadership through stories of key moments in the life of St. Vincent de Paul.
Vincent and Louise: The Masculine-Feminine Balance That Sustains
Through their extraordinary collaboration, Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marillac initiated a web of organizations that have served the those in need for more than 350 years. Their example provides the backdrop for an exploration of “masculine” and “feminine” approaches to leadership.
Balancing Contemplation & Action: What We Learn from Vincent, Louise and Mary
In this workshop, we explore how to deepen our sense of following God’s will and not simply our own by developing contemplative spiritual practices that work for us, as they did for Vincent, Louise and Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Leadership Styles and Practices
What’s Changing about Leadership and Decision-Making in These Changing Times
This workshop explores the changing vision and values affecting our understanding of people and power in today’s workplace, and best practices appropriate for decision-making in our own situation.
Building the Cooperative Learning Organization: The Art and Practice of Dialogue; Giving and Receiving Feedback
This workshop offers practical applications to support universal values and principles of effective leadership. These include tools to encourage new levels of self-awareness, what it takes to construct a cooperative learning organization, including new ways to listen, and to give and receive feedback.
Cultivating Compassion and Forgiveness in Organizations
We explore the benefits of compassion for organizational renewal and transformation, and name actions for putting compassion and forgiveness into practice within our organizations.
Leadership Coaching: An Introduction to Basic Principles and Practices
Leadership coaching is a process that can assist leaders to become more “internally directed” in the face of everyday challenges. In this workshop, we cover the basics of leadership coaching, explaining how it differs from mentoring and other professional relationships. The workshop includes a coaching demonstration and practice session.
Putting First Things First: Making Time and Energy Work for You
Is your time and energy going toward what you want to achieve? Or, do you find yourself continually distracted from your plans and goals by the demands of others? We explore tools to help you effectively use the time and energy you have, not only allowing you to accomplish more, but also to gain the daily satisfaction of knowing you are taking steps to achieve your own purpose.
Moving Beyond Values Conflict: An Introduction to Polarity Management
Have you ever made a decision you hoped would address a problem, only to find that it creates new problems? Often this is an indication of a choice based on interdependent values, with more than one right answer. Polarity Management™ is a tool developed by Barry Johnson to address such “unsolvable,” but manageable, choices.
Facing Differences and Difficult People: Negotiating Diversity in the Workplace
Are people “difficult” or really just “different”? If so, what makes them “different” from me? In this workshop, we explore how our life experiences make us different inside as well as outside, and look at strategies for inclusion and collaboration with individuals and other organizations.
Leadership and the Brain: Tools to Help You Be Your Best Self
Today’s emerging science of the brain opens us up to consider essential human capabilities and styles beyond pure intellectual abilities and skill sets, inviting us toward a more mindful way of being present to self and others. Daniel Goleman’s research shows that emotional intelligence is twice as important for leadership success as IQ and technical skills. Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences model expands our leadership toolkit to include seven essential human intelligences. Amazingly, these modern theories coincide with insights from the great spiritual traditions. This workshop will explore how the tools these modern and ancient insights offer can help us grow toward more wise and compassionate ways of thinking and acting at home and in the workplace.
Right Brain/Left Brain Leadership and Communication Skills
In Western culture, most leadership, communication and problem-solving activities involve the functions of the left hemisphere of the brain (analytical, logical, verbal, quantitative). How can we learn to balance these with more right-brain functions (intuitive, non-verbal, creative, holistic)? This workshop explores the universal concept of balance and how it applies to whole-brain leadership effectiveness.
Leading Effective Teams
In this workshop, participants learn new tools around team-building and communication, integrate them for their specific situation, and leave prepared to lead from this new knowledge.
Spirituality and Leadership
Spiritual Leadership: A Development Model for the 21st Century
This workshop explores the growing interest in a development model for training leaders grounded in an awareness of and dedication to the common good.
Spirituality and Ethics: Making Right Choices from the Inside Out
Ethics is defined as stepping back to reflect on our moral beliefs, choices, and practices. Key here is knowing what values underlie our moral beliefs, and how those beliefs may be changing in our time. In this workshop, we explore our own and our culture’s values in connection with ethics, and the ongoing practices that can support us in our difficult ethical choices.
About the Presenter:
Patricia M. Bombard, BVM, D.Min., serves at DePaul University as director of Vincent on Leadership: The Hay Project, which conducts research, training, and education furthering the leadership legacy of Vincent de Paul. She also serves as a faculty member in DePaul’s School of Public Service, teaching values-centered leadership in Chicago, abroad, and online. Email: hayleadership@depaul.edu
