These slides reflect a full-day experiential leadership lab at OD Network, 2013. The dance of privilege is present when individuals in a “power down” position are marginalized, while individuals in a “power up” position experience disconnection. This dynamic has costly impacts. In the lab, learners learned about 1) global leadership competencies which enable skillful performance when encountering the unknown and threats to self identity. 2) concepts of implicit bias, stereotype threat, and privilege as power dynamics related to structural inequality of many kinds. 3) strategies for global leadership development, and micro-interventions In the lab, learners were guided through improvisational exercises to engage emotional, rational, somatic, and intuitive selves. We practiced compassionate presence, honoring needs for belonging and feeling valued, and appreciating risk-taking. This lab is dedicated to the extraordinary change agents, Edie and Charlie Seashore, who both passed in 2013. We engaged in “Seashorian” learning: Edie's humor and reframing of stories of passivity to stories of agency; Charlie's playful explorations of the self.

1. Dancing with
the Power of
Privilege:
an
interpersonal
leadership lab
Organization Development
Network Conference, 2013
Tiffany von Emmel, PhD
http://vonemmel.com

2. Honoring Edie and Charlie Seashore
To whom do you want to dedicate
your learning about privilege?

3. Lab Agenda
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Group forming
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Key: Global Leadership Competencies
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Activity
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Concepts: Privilege, Stereotype Threat, Bias
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Activity
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Group process
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Global Leadership Development
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Synthesis, Application, Closing Circle

4. Global Leadership Competencies
Perception Management
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Nonjudgementalness
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Inquisitiveness
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Tolerance of Ambiguity
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Cosmopolitanism
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Interest Flexibility
(Reference 2010, Mendenhall, Stevens, Bird, Oddou)

5. Relationship Management
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Relationship Interest
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Interpersonal Engagement
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Emotional Sensitivity

Self-awareness of interpersonal skills
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Social Flexibility
Global Leadership Competencies
(Reference 2010, Mendenhall, Stevens, Bird, Oddou)

6. Self Management
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Optimism
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Self Confidence
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Self Identity
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Emotional Resilience
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Nonstress Tendency
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Stress Management
Global Leadership Competencies
(Reference 2010, Mendenhall, Stevens, Bird, Oddou)

7. [group improvisation activity
to learn about global competencies]

8. Concept: Privilege
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Enjoying advantage, based on
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membership in a social identity
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9. 
Intersectional: Many flavors swirled together
socio-economic, age, gender, race, tribe, religion...
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Situational: being “power up”, “power down”
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Social and historical: ie, expatriate, colonizer
Concept: Privilege

10. [group improvisation activity
to learn about the dynamics of privilege]

11. Concept: Implicit Bias

Unconscious influences on behavior
http://richardaustinimages.wordpress.com/2013/07/11
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12. Concept: Implicit Bias
Implicit Association Test
Now, discover your implicit bias...
https://implicit.harvard.edu

13. Concept: Stereotype Threat

the tendency to
expect, perceive,
and be influenced
by negative
stereotypes about
one's social
category
Reference: Whistling
Vivaldi by Claude Steele
http://richardaustinimages.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/

14. [group improvisation activity
to learn global leadership development model]

15. Global Leadership Development
Facilitating process of transformative learning
When you
encounter the
“disorienting
dilemma” of a
perceived threat
or the unknown,
what do you feel,
think, and do?
Photo credit: Patty Nason1/ Reference: Jack Mezirow
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16. Global Leadership Development
Facilitating process of transformative learning
Which
competencies
enable you to
dance with
the
unknown?
Photo credit: Patty Nason1/

17. Moving Forward
How will you support your development?
How will you support development
in others?

18. Thank you, village!
Contact
Tiffany von Emmel, PhD
http://vonemmel.com
http://www.slideshare.net
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