Demonstrated Course Compentencies

The Gonzaga leadership project synthesize the ORGL program's teachings and provided the opportunity to reflect on the courses that profoundly impacted my leadership philosophy. My leadership philosophy inspired the work behind the Quiet Leadership Cafe to educate and inspire others to become wiser, freer, more likely to become leaders themselves.

ORGL605: Creating the awareness in the business culture for restorative niches during the day. Allow time to rest the mind and recharge the batteries to become more mindful. Introverts have the unique ability to be deep thinkers and providing the space to be creative and mindful enables the business to have their best thinkers to solve problems efficiently.

Openness correlates with divergent thinking and is strongly related to both personality-based and behavioral measures of creativity. Creativity appears to be an important skill of effective leaders. Suggesting that open individuals are more likely to emerge as leaders and be effective leaders.

ORGL520: Introverts, most by nature, seek harmony and avoid conflict. Likewise, extroverts embrace conflict but are not well suited to resolve conflict. Introverts have the inherent ability to seek reconciliation and find the kind of robust and resilient relationships that build the foundation of legitimate power, both personally and professionally. This is true only if introverts learn from extroverts how to willing embrace conflict.

ORGL516: The need to be authentic leads to put into words what you are experiencing with the client as you work. An authentic employee requires deep awareness and constant self-reflection; only through this process can an employee continuously focus on how he or she works with the business. Building the web-site endeavors to harness introverts inherent ability to build deep relationships and introverts capacity for self-reflections helps the business to find solutions and build trust. Also expecting introverts to perform as extroverts continuously means 50% of your employee base feels they cannot be authentic at work. This harms the business as these employees greatest assets are not given the space to lead. Business leaders are not utilizing the inherent strengths of 50% of its workforce, additionally these skills need to be coupled with extroverts double-loop systems thinking ability.

ORGL504: Bridge the communication gap. The OneConnect site encourages communication about a wide variety of topics related to leadership development. The site builds upon the Multiplex relationship concept taught in this course. These relationships tend to be long term and offer social and cognitive detail, communication components inherent to the web-site to help sustain ongoing development.

ORGL501: Introverts can be great leaders often spectacular great leaders. Although extroverted leadership enhances group performance when employees are passive, this effect reverses when employees are proactive, because extroverted leaders are less receptive to proactivity. “leaders must be tirelessly persistent in their activities and follow through with their programs”(p. 51). Because conscientious individuals have more tenacity and persistence (Goldberg, 1990), we expect that conscientious individuals will be more effective leaders.

ORGL506: Diversity of voices. Identify introverts affinity to deep conversations and for adopting advisor roles can be used effectively. How to effectively let the talents of introverts shine. Also, working together introverts and extroverts enhance each other’s ability to communicate with teams and the organization as a whole. Extroverts need the deep conversations to help problem solve while the introverts need more lighthearted conversation.

ORGL 505: Introverts can learn from extroverts’ ability to embrace complexity and paradox. Also, as leaders we need to embrace the paradox of solving complexity while simultaneously finding simplicity. Extroverts ability to multi-task and hold this paradox comfortably is a skill introverts should embrace and learn how they can be part of the solution.

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Core Leadership Competencies

Authentic

The Gonzaga ORGL program lead to me to consider the importance of being authentic to help lead others. , Quiet Leadership Café, really reflects my desire that I need first understand how I can grow the strengths of my own introverted personality in order to help others. I can genuinely lead when I have gone through the deep self-reflection that is required for authentic leadership.

Mindful

To achieve authenticity a leader requires deep awareness and constant self-reflection; only through this process can a leader continuously focus on how he or she works with others. Introverts have unique gifts that are in demand in today’s world such as: inherent ability to build deep relationships capacity for self-reflections helps the business to find solutions and build trust. The web-site provides a forum for strengthening deep awareness and constant self-reflection, but most importantly specifically works to develop the inherent introverted attributes needed in today’s business.

Openness

Openness is having the confidence and humility to see new perspectives, to see the strengths in others and harnessing those perspective and strengths so others can accomplish goals.

Quiet Café fosters new kinds of relationships that allows others to be intimately familiar with each other by seeing new perspectives and being open to creative solutions. Openness can only be accomplished through trust, sharing, and curiosity. Since we are becoming a content heavy society, the web site provides introverts to build relationship not through small chit-chat but through deep content that revolves around sharing content on introversion and leaders as well as personal success and failure stores. Introverts have a unique gift of building deep emotional relationships that are difficult to build in today world that embraces the extrovert ideal. Quiet Café provides the space where deep content and deep relationships are formed to build greater awareness and curiosity to see new perspectives to help problem solve.

Trans-formative

The Gonzaga program unearthed my vocation to become a trans-formative leader. A leader that is is inspiring, developing and empowering followers. In this way, I believe the Quiet Café reflects my leadership philosophy by educating and developing introverted personality types to learn how to shine an extroverted world.

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