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SUBMITTED BY: MARIE GRACE A. SUAN
BSN 3-B
JOURNAL

Whole Person Leadership

      Today the global environment and the business environment are increasingly more complex, turbulent and uncertain. In this environment, many of our old ways of thinking about governments, organizations, and leaders are outdated. We require new thinking, innovative solutions and a fundamentally new concept of leadership that can bring about profound and sustained change and successfully respond to the challenges of today.
      Whole person leadership recognizes that effective leadership is based on self knowledge, self awareness as well as awareness of the external system in which we operate. On the on hand self knowledge begins with your ability to know and understand all aspect of yourself as a person, your emotional, cognitive, psychological and spiritual make-up and how they influence your behavior. This implies questioning and understanding your values, how you respond, think, and gather data, what your assumptions are about the world, yourself and others. This goes beyond the traditional focus on IQ and the external acts you “must do” and what you “must know”, to focus on you as a person, your character and the inner resources that you have. On the other hand, external awareness requires and understanding, awareness and interpretation of the external context that you find yourself in as a leader, and of how this influences your choices and enables purposeful action. To be in full alignment with ourselves as leaders we have to understand what actions to take, how these support our own values, what is important to us, and what we personally want to shape and contribute to our world.
      This whole person leadership program will provide you with an in – depth opportunity to bring more awareness to yourself and your life, and to decisions or choices that you need to make in the future. It will enable you to act with more internal and external alignment in your world....