A comprehensive guide to complement a facilitator’s use of the Leadership Metaphor Explorer tool - A dynamic, interactive tool designed to stimulate creative, insightful conversations in and among groups about leadership.

Experience Explorer gives leaders a powerful and efficient tool for discovering what they have learned about effective leadership and what they still need to learn. When leaders explore and talk about their past experiences, they can better plan future learning experiences. This Facilitator's Guide, coupled with the additional materials purchased from the Center for Creative Leadership, will provide a facilitator with the information needed to facilitate an Experience Explorer session.

Leadership, as a discipline, leadership education, as a field, and leadership educator, as a profession are still in their infancy and rapidly evolving. As professionals in higher education, we are constantly asked to provide opportunities for students to learn leadership, whether that is inside or outside of the classroom. However, very little, if any professional development occurs in how to create such learning opportunities. This book provides resources for leadership educators in three sections. The first section sets the stage for leadership education and the professional work of leadership educators, culminating with a variety of professional development resources for leadership educators. The second section introduces a leadership learning framework, provides characteristics and examples of strong leadership programs and assessment practices, and describes the transformative practice of leadership education. The third and final section offers specific instructional and assessment strategies ranging from discussion, case study, and reflection, to team-based- and service-learning to self-assessments, role-play, simulation, and games, to fulfill learning outcomes.

No matter where you are in your career, you've probably dealt with some form of organizational change. Change can be a frightening prospect, and if you do not handle it correctly, it can lead to derailment. To be a successful leader, you must learn to adapt to a wide variety of situations, opportunities, and environments. This guidebook will show you how change affects you, your thoughts, and your emotions. It will give you tools and strategies that will allow you to take action not just to survive change, but to thrive in it.

A Letter from the Authors; Visual Explorer Quick Guide; Introduction; Using Visual Explorer; Preparing for Visual Explorer; Conducting a Visual Explorer Session; Visual Explorer Applications; References and Resources; Visual Explorer Worksheet; FAQ; About the Authors

Inspire collaborative, creative conversations using a wide variety of images with Visual Explorer. A favorite of CCL’s own program facilitators, Visual Explorer offers everything you need to utilize this proven method of developing ideas and insights into useful dialog as part of your leadership development training.

This publication is a comprehensive guide to complement a facilitator's use of the Leadership Metaphor Explorer tool - A dynamic, interactive tool designed to stimulate creative, insightful conversations in and among groups about leadership.