September 2008

Welcome to Your Key Inspirations
for September 2008!

 
This month, Key Inspirations is pleased to feature the contributions of individuals who are doing some truly exciting work. Marcia Hughes and James Terrell discuss the concept of collaborative intelligence and why your team’s emotional and social well-being is so crucial to performance. Joanne Stalinski’s piece on leading and living wellness is full of great ideas for establishing harmony and balance in your life and work. Brian Woodward and Colin Funk offer part two of their eye-opening article on the similarities between leaders and artists. And, we are pleased to feature an interview with Mike Cafasso, the President of ABC Bank and a strong advocate for arts-based learning. As always, we welcome your feedback and suggestions for story ideas. Enjoy!

Client Testimonial

"In planning our annual meeting, it was PSI's goal to create an event that would better prepare our management team to be more effective leaders and to inspire them to be more creative visionaries. Kevin literally and figuratively set the stage for the event. From the moment we walked through the doors to find an unexpected circle of chairs surrounding a grand piano to the moment we were asked to contemplate Kevin's original music while journaling our thoughts, our team found Kevin's imaginative alternative to the staid keynote a welcome start. He captured both the tune and the tone for a productive and enjoyable meeting."
        -James Dunn, Vice President, Marketing, PSI

Kevin Asbjörnson, MIM

Founder & Principal
Performing Artist of
Inspire! Imagine! Innovate!TM

Emotional and Social Well-Being for your Team Through Collaborative Intelligence

by Marcia Hughes & James Terrell
Emotional and social well-being is a right that every team should have; yet it has seldom been a goal for teams. Calling for well-being at the individual and team level is not asking for too much. Rather, it’s a critical and proper request. Team well-being occurs because teams apply conscious awareness and intentionality to their work, their mission and to one another.

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Leading and Living Wellness

by Joanne Stalinski
The work of Kevin Asbjornson and the many members of his virtual network of leaders quite naturally link innate and learned attributes associated with good leadership and expression of the creative soul. There is plenty of research to back up the wisdom of nurturing the social and emotional intelligence that leads to good leaders and good citizens. And recently, the notion of the M.F.A. becoming the new M.B.A. is causing many of us to step back to take a look at our modern organizational culture and the kinds of survival skills and generative traits that the business world needs now.

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Leaders and Artists: Are they really worlds apart? II

by Brian Woodward and Colin Funk
Leadership is typified as much by its artfulness as its skill and competency. Most of the basic skills required for success in a leadership role can be gained through competency-based programs and personal experience. However, something more than skill is required and this extra something sets apart great leaders from average leaders and provides the means for responding to the profoundly dynamic environment that characterizes the leader’s world. This something extra is what makes leadership more of an art than a science.

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Inspire! Imagine! Innovate!

Key Inspirations is pleased to announce another milestone in the growth of our professional services firm and invite you to visit our new website at www.InspireImagineInnovate.com. We thank you for your contributions to our continued growth in becoming a preferred, international provider of performing arts-based training, keynote inspirational speaking and transformational leadership services.

Interview with Michael Cafasso

Key Inspirations recently spoke with Michael Cafasso, Colorado President for American Bank of Commerce (ABC Bank), on the upcoming series “Leadership as a Performing Art” at Colorado College.

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Calendar of Appearances


Northwestern Mutual Insurance MVP Leadership Conference
October 20th, 2008
Las Vegas, Nevada

Leadership as a Performing Art Series
Cornerstone Arts Center at Colorado College
November 12, 2008, 7:00pm
825 North Cascade Avenue
Colorado Springs, Colorado

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