Leadership CoP: The Mindful Influence

Abstract

As older workers are delaying retiring and younger workers are entering the workforce, the work environment has become a patchwork of differing perspectives and valuable experiences. While the value of such diversity can be critical to an organization's success, it brings with it challenges.

For project managers, age or generational diversity may amplify communication challenges, increase barriers on the path to consensus, and require nuanced approaches to effectively engaging employees. For example, you may have found yourself thinking "how can I improve my impact on team members and achieve the desired outcomes in the face of differing values, experience sets, and communication styles?" While it may seem like an insurmountable goal to cultivate an efficient and effective environment for employees across generations, practicing the right form of mindfulness can provide unprecedented clarity into the obstacles and solutions.

In this experiential session you will:

• Learn how history has shaped the thinking of each type of generation
• Understand the differences between each type of generation to find common ground among the generations.
• Learn how to leverage mindfulness to manage conflicts and put generation gap to work to everyone’s advantage and building a strong team.
• Walk away with a ‘Personalized Action Plan’ to implement mindful influence in your personal and professional life

Please note: Although this session builds on the information in the May 10th workshop, it is not necessary to have attended that event to learn about mindful influence and walk away with practical understanding and actions.

Speaker: Divya Parekh, MS, LL, PCC

 Divya Parekh is an international Executive Leadership Coach and #1 bestselling author. She is CEO of The DP Group, a global coaching and consulting firm that provides leadership and team development services as well as corporate coaching.

Having success in four primary career paths, Divya has the expertise and knowledge of real-world business backed by a proven record of success. Divya brings over 25 years of rich and extensive experience in academia, the biopharmaceutical industry, and as a global executive and leadership coach. In each of her many roles, she has empowered leaders with breakthrough insights, talent development strategies, and measurable business outcomes.

During her biopharmaceutical journey, Divya led successful multi-million dollar projects from concept to completion in a fast-paced and competitive environment. Divya knows what it takes to initiate communication channels that cut across departments, improve cross-functional collaboration, and leverage scientific principles, technical skills, and Lean Six Sigma problem-solving tools to measure, evaluate, and enhance the productivity of leaders and teams.

Divya has guided many seasoned executives, leaders, and management personnel into realizing their goals by creating a cohesive plan to reach their next level of accomplishment. She believes the key factor in leadership success is the partnerships we cultivate. She helps others to learn the exponential power in developing a thorough understanding of their business partners to build resonant relationships and a foundation of mutual trust and safety.

Working with cross-functional groups, she inspires them to morph into high-performing, collaborative teams. Her technique utilizes measurable assessments, a supportive delivery method and a bit of pointed accountability that ensures the success of both leaders and professionals in the organization. Divya coaches leaders to cultivate interdependence between themselves and their internal and external stakeholder’s to achieve a combined mastery of connectivity and alignment through complicated business and personal challenges. When you function in an environment of mutual trust, Return on Energy and Return on Investment flourish both in business and life.

As a Forbes Coaches Council Official Member, Divya is a regular contributor to Forbes. Divya is also the author of numerous leadership and entrepreneurial books. Her books include Stress Management, Mindfulness Mastery, Critical Thinking, Candid Critique, Appreciative Inquiry, Leadership and Influence, Emotional Intelligence, and The Entrepreneur's Garden.

Location:

Lenovo
Bldg 8, Floor 1
2E-L1B Training room
 8001 Development Drive 
Morrisville, NC 27560
United States