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Step confidently into a year of impactful leadership with F.O.R.G.E.D. Catalyst Workbook & Weekly Planner.
Built on the foundations of Douglas Scherer's #1 Amazon Bestseller F.O.R.G.E.D.: Six Practices of Great Leaders in Volatile Times, its intuitive layout and guidance take you through a year-long journey of meaningful growth.
Designed for leaders at every level, this workbook is a roadmap for transforming your skills and mindset, helping you cultivate intuition, compassion, and adaptability in dynamically changing settings.
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Invest in yourself and join the ranks of those inspired by Scherer's bestselling methods to make every week an opportunity for growth.​
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Six Practices of Great Leaders
Leaders must decide and take action when the course isn’t clear, but the stakes are high —sometimes life-threatening.
Uncertain crossroads force people to see things differently, to push past their assumptions and habitual ways of thinking, to rewrite their playbook. They ask leaders to see things through new perspectives and come up with unique responses to unique times.
In F.O.R.G.E.D.: Six Practices of Great Leaders in Volatile Times, author Douglas Scherer highlights the lessons of presence he has shared with his students for decades. The stories of leadership will encourage and support you in finding a flexible mindset to respond to critical situations.
From a board member of a major passenger airline bringing great Wi-Fi to its passengers, to volunteers stepping up to lead their local food pantry when its community’s needs rapidly expand, to a new employee creating a completely new competitive business model that saves their company...If you are ready for the inspiration to get F.O.R.G.E.D. now, then this book belongs on your reading list.
Douglas's Speaking and Consulting work is inspired by the F.O.R.G.E.D. Practices
Favor Compassion: Understand audience needs through empathy and connection. Wield compassion to rally your teams more deeply, consistently, and productively than with fear.
​Own the Unexpected: Adapt to market changes and challenges. Embrace the unexpected, knowing you're not alone. Use your values, experience, humility, and community. Act with care and seek help when needed.
​Recast Ideas: Innovate and adapt based on feedback and market trends. Find innovation through improvisation and flexibility. Volatile times force leaders to push themselves out of habitual ways of thinking to take in new and unexpected perspectives.
​Go with Intuition: Trust instincts in decision-making and convey vision confidently. Decision-making is based on information, but no amount of information will give leaders one hundred percent certainty. Decide and act by listening to your gut, values, and experience.
​Employ Action Communications: Messages create energy and community engagement, but use your own actions as your strongest way to communicate intentions.
​Drive Community Bonds: Cultivate supportive networks and partnerships. Abandon the lone cowboy mentality and instead build communities. Know it’s not only okay to ask for help, but rather receiving support from the community is imperative.
Douglas Scherer draws on his many years of research and organizational experience to set out practices that will help leaders develop the attitudes, values, and approaches that will serve them well as they execute their roles. These are the practices that are learned through experience in challenging times (what Douglas calls “The Forge”), from working creatively and with an open mind to communicating and building communities around the work to bringing compassion and intuition into the leadership style. Douglas presents examples from business, the Military, and the not-for-profit world to help readers see the practices in action. Leaders (current and aspiring) will find good guidance on preparing themselves to assume key roles in any form of entity.
— Deirdre Silberstein, President, Silberstein & Associates LLC