Hi everyone,
As promised, here is the information about an upcoming interview you might be interested in. I thought it might be especially interesting to personal growth enthusiasts since we are the ones hiring the professionals and spending hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on workshops, audio and DVD sets, etc.
Bea Fields, well-known author, is conducting a “summer virtual
book tour”, and as part of the tour, she will be interviewing me on the nature of
integrity in business, particularly as it applies to personal growth professionals
and working with Gen Y leaders.
Please join us if you can.
Bridging the Integrity Gap: How Personal Growth Professionals Are
(And Are Not) Leading the Way. What You Need To Know,
With Nina East, Founder of The Association of Personal Growth Professionals.
Date: One Tuesday, August 5 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern
Led by Bea Fields and Nina East, Founder of The Association of Personal
Growth Professionals. http://www.PersonalGrowthProfessionals.com
We are experiencing the rise of conscious capitalism and the power of the values-driven consumer. One might think that these forces would conspire to ensure integrity at the highest leadership levels, particularly in the arena of Personal Growth Professionals.
After all, they are training us to be our best – surely that would include integrity, yes?
Unfortunately what we are seeing, with far too great frequency, are personal growth
and self-help professionals who have not dealt with their own integrity (or integrity gaps), and therefore cannot model (much less, teach) integrity to their readers, clients, and workshop participants. In other words, those who could – and perhaps should – be leading the way, are not. Why is this happening, what does it mean for the personal growth profession, and what do you need to know about integrity and millennial leaders if your business and your community are to thrive long-term?
To register, go here.
I also highly recommend both of Bea’s books.
Millenial Leaders: Success Stories from Today’s Most Brilliant Generation Y Leaders
and Edge – A Leadership Story.
Hope to “see” you on the call.
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November 22, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Eric G. Schnieder, D. Min.
There is a tendency to look at integrity as a noun rather than a process.
The fact remains that as long as we are human we will live in and out of integrity and hopefully when we are out of integrity we will have helpful people in our lives who are willing to point this out to us.
Any time we monetize ourselves we are bound to corrupt the very thing that is nearest and dearest to us.
For years insurance companies have made criminals of psychotherapists as therapists play the insurance game. This type of game is played everywhere…as my grandfather said, “if you go to bed with dogs you will wake up with fleas.”
Doing what is good and right does not always equal money and most of today’s self-help gurus are a part of the money train…
It points to an important idea…who you are has more to do with the context you are in then with who you want to be.
It is my opinion that teachers don’t need to be perfect…they need to be human and model humanness…and hopefully enough people will be willing to buy it!