Catalysts for Change: Interview with Dwayne Cox

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"Building learning organizations involves developing people who learn to see as systems thinkers see, who develop their own personal mastery, and who learn how to surface and restructure mental models,
collaboratively. Given the influence of organizations in today's world, this may be one of the most powerful steps toward helping us "rewrite the code," altering not just what we think but our predominant ways of thinking."
~ Peter Senge from The Fifth Discipline.

C A T A L Y S T 4 C H A N G E

Proudly Introduces Dwayne Cox, President of Synergy Central

Sharing the vision of DreamTEAMS International, we too role model organizations of the future. As a global network of entrepreneurs, visionaries, thought leaders, change agents and pioneers, we are passionately committed to the transformation of organizations; to the empowerment and self-actualization of individuals. Building a global virtual community of those passionate about living life to the fullest in every way, we enjoy the leverage derived from synergistic collaboration.

My areas of interest involve inspiring and fostering virtual teams, communities of practice, knowledge sharing, leadership, and the development of powerful interpersonal communication skills. Personally, I am exploring inspiration and elegance. How can I convey that which I am most passionate about in ways that move, touch and inspire my audience? How can I add the most value to the most people with the most leverage?

As most cultural creatives know only too well, our ability to express that which we are most passionate about is limited. The global virtual community of Synergy Central offers many solutions to the challenges of utilizing web based tools and technology in bringing together visionary global corporations and social entrepreneurs. What drives us is a passion to leverage our collective intelligence in order to increase and share knowledge, ideas, resources, insights and wisdom. All are welcome to participate in whatever ways they feel moved to.

Catalysts For Change As Viewed By Dwayne

My background is in social psychology and business. As a Transformation Consultant in organizational development and business, and as a Results Coach working with entrepreneurs and global corporations, I am well exposed to the thought evolution. From my perspective as an Agent of Change and social entrepreneur, I see many catalysts affecting social change. Two I am very passionate about, are these:

Communication catalyzed by web-based technologies
The Internet is really just the birth of this powerful evolution in knowledge sharing, self-expression and leadership.

A shift in Social Capital
Our evolution into a knowledge/wisdom worker based economy is catalyzing a paradigm shift in our collective consciousness.

Thank you Bernie, for your energy in creating, facilitating and moderating this C4C initiative.

Warmly, Dwayne Cox
rainmain@synergycentral.com
http://www.synergycentral.com

Questions: Bernie Slepkov of DreamTEAMS International submitted the following questions:

Which Champions for Change, or Cultural Creatives influenced a change in your perceptions?

Reading Peter Senge's Fifth Discipline opened new doors for me. I began to realize how every organization lives and breathes various combinations of the archetypes all the time. Here is a major shift in the collective consciousness of the planet toward comprehension of the bigger picture. I began to see how we could leverage off of that knowledge.

Your schedule is full enough without joining the C4C-Panel. Why did you? What do you want readers to get from your interview?

Participation is all about sharing knowledge, ideas, resources, insights and wisdom. I'm hoping for something more than the common esoteric online community discussions. I'm here with the vision that this will go somewhere. The where, I believe, will be co-created through our synergy. I'm also envisioning some of us actually collaborating on projects as we get to know each other better; what we are up to individually and collectively. I view the C4C Panel as a team in the forming stage of the Tuchman model.

Dwayne, obviously you have had a wealth of experience. Other than what I have seen at the links you have provided, we've bumped into each other at several online discussions. Many ‘newbies’, who have not yet had the experiences you/we have, seem to have major barriers to getting past the dialogue phase. They are, or feel stuck. Participating can be a BIG STEP. What might you suggest in helping non-panelist feel comfortable in making that step?

I wish I could clone myself. There are so many places I want to be and only so much time in the day. This question is one many of us puzzle over. Personally, more and more I am feeling that it is ok to expect the newcomer to explore and persist, eventually crossing the threshold when it feels right. I believe when the timing is right, and with some experience, the newcomer will begin seeking collaborative opportunities, if not initiating them. Everyone has to choose for themselves when they are ready. Until that choice is made, the commitment will not be what it needs to be.

I believe the commitment comes with experience of the environment. Really, we are back to looking at Tuchman's model of Team development. What comes before storming? Exploring maybe? Experimenting perhaps? Researching?

Dwayne, you expressed a hope that this initiative not be just another esoteric discussion, that you are here with the vision of this going somewhere. Regarding that vision of collaborating on projects, with respects to your invitation to visit your links, what projects might be in the works for panelist and non-panelist in which to get involved?

Possibly exploring the following dynamics together:

appreciative inquiry
action research
positive reinforcement
building online communities
online facilitation
creating generative discussion
enrollment
coaching and mentoring

attention management
knowledge ecology
systems thinking
leadership development
communication skill building
professional development relating to web authoring
collaborative writing projects
exploration of self-expression and leadership
inquiry based dialogue

As you can see, these are all interrelated. Some are subsets of the others. For example, systems thinking and knowledge ecology are related. Enrollment can be a subset of coaching. Creating generative discussion and online facilitation could be subsets of building online knowledge communities. Exploration of appreciative inquiry, inquiry based dialogue, action research and positive reinforcement could contribute to a healthier, more dynamic collaborative team - and so forth.

Clicking on this Who We Are link might be a good start.

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