The Bonar Institute for Purposeful Leadership Inc. Signs Letter of Intent to Partner with White Label Advisors Inc.
The Bonar Institute is delighted to announce that James de Gaspé Bonar, Ph.D., CEC, PCC, CEO of The Bonar Institute for Purposeful Leadership Inc, and Christine Wzorek, SPHR, CEO of White Label Advisors Inc., have signed a Letter of Intent to create a formal partnership between the two companies...
The Purpose and Role of Advisory Boards & Why the Bonar Institute Has Created One
The purpose of an advisory board is to help a business gain new insights and receive excellent advice from experts, typically from different fields. An advisory board is not a decision-making body. Rather, its role is to serve as a forum for exploring new corporate opportunities by stimulating...
Road to Clarity
Let me invite you to take a short break in your busy day to embark on your personal road to Clarity. Most people will carve out time for a coaching session with their heads full of various problems, concerns, and gigantic “to-do” lists. Yet they lack the clarity needed to focus on what matters. If...
Anticipant Leaders & Anticipant Organizations Are Better Positioned for Innovation
Two recent Bonar Institute Webinars explored themes in purposeful leadership. Major General (Retired David Fraser, a Bonar Institute colleague, discussed in a June, 2022 webinar, Leadership in Uncertain Times – Developing Resilience, the need for anticipant leadership to proactively transform...
Stress gets in the way of Good Leadership
Awareness of stress and how it manifests in the mind and body is crucial for organizational leaders. Ignoring it can lead to diminishing returns both mentally and physically. Stressed, leaders can lose mental focus and become ill-tempered leading to tension in the organization. It can spiral out...
New Program: Elevate your leaders and gain the competitive advantage with Foundational Purposeful Leadership Development
It’s one thing to supervise a group of people. It’s another to lead a high-performing team. Are your leaders in the first category, the second category, or somewhere in between? As baseball legend Babe Ruth put it, “You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they...
Leading Human Beings, Not Human Doings
So much focus in business goes to action, specifically swift and decisive action. Think about common business phraseology such as “going the extra mile”, “hitting the ground running”, “playing hardball”, “going above and beyond”, or “stepping up to the plate”. Each carries a sense of intensity...
What makes work attractive to people?
"Human beings are “symbolizing, conceptualizing, meaning-seeking animals," – Clifford Geertz The disconnection between employee aspirations to work and what they really experience at work is being increasingly voiced by their quest for destiny of preferred work and workplaces. This forces managers...
Spirituality and Purposeful Leadership
Neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor in her new book Whole Brain Living says that most of humanity who live urban lives are stuck in the left brain. This results in linear, mechanistic thinking in the past and future tense, structured, certain, analytical, detail oriented, seeks differences, happy to...
The Battle of Attrition Post COVID
Leaders today have just gone through a gruelling two-plus-year fight of normal business challenges that was coupled with an unprecedented worldwide COVID pandemic. As many would say, “you cannot make this up.” As we come out of the COVID pandemic, many leaders and their teams are just now coming...
Address the risk of burn out to increase employee retention
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” — Lou Holtz The astounding phase of announcements on people moving to new jobs over the past year indicates high volatility in the market for top talent. This poses a major retention risk for managers. The August 2021 PWC U.S....
Inaction is also a Choice: A Leader’s Dilemma
One of my coaching clients was struggling with one of the most difficult choices a leader must make. His company was growing quickly and some of his most trusted lieutenants didn’t have the necessary skills to foster exponential growth. The choice was stark: thrive by replacing loyal colleagues...
Leading Purposefully in The Era of ESG Reporting Fatigue
Purposeful leaders can create benefits for their companies and stakeholders by linking ESG reporting and company purpose and values. Let’s take a look at why. Much has been written about ‘sustainability reporting fatigue’ in recent years. There is no denying the toll Environmental, Social and...
Challenges of Internal Transition to a C-level Role
High potential candidates for a C-level position can benefit from an executive coaching engagement to prepare for the role and to succeed while in the role. Transition challenges are well-documented in the popular business press and peer-reviewed academic research. Many organizations experience...
From Startup to Exit: Necessary Leadership Adaptations
Each phase of a business’ life-cycle poses unique leadership challenges, and the Bonar Institute team can assist at each stage as coaches, mentors, and strategic advisors, and trainers. Senior executives need to adapt leadership practices and optimize the organizational structure for each phase of...
Need to Create Purposeful Teams
Teams need to be purposefully built. This is true because teams need to have the right balance of the skills and team characteristics required to solve the specific challenges they are facing. Team challenges can, generally, fall into three buckets: Generating exceptional levels of performance...
Anticipant Leadership – New Rules for Leadership in the Digital Society
There have been many transitions for humankind. From the Neolithic, scientific, agrarian, industrial, information, and now digital era. Each one of these transitions fundamentally changed our lives. And for the better - on balance. What was fundamental in each change was that humans were involved...
Freedom
“Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society, and the context is having a sense of Global Responsibility.” - His Holiness The Dalai Lama Freedom is a deeply rooted value in how we live our lives in Western societies. It is a critical...
Endurance and Equanimity: Attributes of an Effective Leader
Endurance is the ability of an organism to exert itself and remain active for a long period of time, as well as its ability to resist, withstand, recover from, and have immunity to trauma, wounds, or fatigue.i Equanimity is defined as a state of psychological stability and composure...
Why We Should Do Better to See Social Entrepreneurship As a Spectrum
As events were unfolding at the Capitol in Washington on January 6 and in the subsequent hours when technology giants like Twitter, Facebook, and Amazon decided to kick certain users off their platforms based on how users leveraged the platforms, I kept wondering how much longer the business world...