Leadership

Although it seems like a lifetime ago, a number of the lessons we were teaching during my tenure as a staff member at Wood Badge last weekend are playing out as the Field Operations Leadership Team meeting this week.  I guess I should not be surprised, as I have been a leader at my company for years, and also in volunteering, to impart similar knowledge to Scouting leaders for over a decade as well.

We spent today at work again engaged in long, thoughtful discussions, occasionally lapsing into more heated conversation, but mostly in that kind of aligned dialog that sometimes takes a while to recognize agreement until the same outcome is articulated in multiple ways.

Which is not different from the prior three days I had before I came here to work.  Slowly revealing more of ourselves with each other, exchanging philosophies, ideas, trying to improve our situations by being exemplary leaders.

After an enjoyable extended team dinner tonight, I returned to my room, and looking for some entertainment to fill the empty void of my hotel room while I wound down with a bath (and writing this blog), I put on a movie that we also use in Wood Badge to provide models of both team formation and leadership styles.  The movie in it's entirety is a wonderful and enjoyable piece of entertainment.  But watching it tonight was not just noise in the background, it was a reminder of the similarity of my volunteer work and my Autodesk life, and how lucky I am that I can connect them.  

And, in the space of this extended week away from home, in a very obvious way.