Primary Goal

The Commonwealth Practice, Ltd. has as its primary goal fostering the development of high quality leaders within effective organizations.  If your organization wants to develop leaders well-equipped to deal effectively with dynamic change, we have high confidence that our Discovering Leadership learning experience will help.   We have proven its effectiveness in business and educational environments.  We call it Discovering Leadership because in our view leadership development involves a personal journey that must meet each individual at the right place and at the right time.  Thus our learning experience extends over a three month period with approximately fifty hours of interactive time in blocks of at least four hours.

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The Discovering Leadership model explains the breadth and depth of the learning experience.  The overlapping ovals reflect our perspective on the development of personal and organizational capacity.  The ovals represent the need to deal with issues of

• communications and dialogue;

• personal values and beliefs; trust;

• influence and power;

• change and transition;

• complexity and uncertainty;

• leadership and followership;

• individual intentions and organizational expectations;

• all within the context of the prevailing culture.

You can download a printer-friendly document (.pdf 96k) containing a recap of much of the information which follows.

High-Level Flyers

We offer downloadable (pdf), high-level descriptions of several of our services:

•  Discovering Leadership - Our Leadership Development Model
• Teamwork and Communications
•  Systems Thinking for Complex Problems
•  Scenario Planning for Strategic Planning
•  Organizational Effectiveness Survey
•  Balanced Scorecard Development
•  Change and Resistance

These one-page documents make most sense in the context of a conversation (email, phone, face-to-face).  Even as standalone documents, however, they offer a flavor of our unique approach to improving organizational effectiveness.

You can look at a few representative testimonials from satisfied participants. 

We invite you to explore our services from any of three directions: 

• By topic
• By intended audience
• By delivery approach

We also employ products from Lominger Limited, Inc. where they complement our portfolio.   We are certified to use nearly all of their products including specifically their 360-degree feedback instrument, Voices^® .  We are also certified to use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI^®).

As an additional service, we make available as resources various publications we've created.  These include white papers, background papers, presentations, and book reviews.  And we offer two primers related to two of our most powerful techniques:  Systems Thinking and Scenario Planning. 

The name The Commonwealth Practice, Ltd, and the overlapping ovals logo are trademarks of The Commonwealth Practice, Ltd.  All other products mentioned are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies.

Questions or problems regarding this web site should be directed to info@thecommonwealthpractice.com.
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Last modified: Thursday May 11, 2006.