1. Become a Better Leader through
Role Montage
Jan M. Schmuckler, PhD
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A Creative New Way to
Discover the
Within You
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Become a Better Leader through
Role Montage
Everyone has a role montage inside themselves, whether they know it or not.
Role montage practice is an exciting new technique that allows leaders to access
and discover the people (mentors and role models) who have inspired them to
succeed. These inspiration sources include various people, both real and imaginary,
they’ve encountered along the way, including various media sources that they’ve
experienced, such as books, movies, cartoons, blogs, and television.
This book provides a structured process you can use to document and describe the
most important ideas and values that have meaning in your life and then incorporate
this information into an idealized image of yourself. The pictures and patterns that
you design through this process will help you develop important self-awareness
capabilities for your professional and personal life.
Role montage practice will ultimately serve as a guide that inspires and motivates your
growth to become a stronger and more effective leader. Coaches and consultants will
want to use this book with their clients to promote successful leadership.
You will discover how to—
n Learn and understand the values that influence you.
n Comprehend (or grasp) your strengths and challenges.
n Internalize the image of the leader you want to be.
n Delve into what can make or hinder your leadership skills.
n Take action to follow a positive leadership path.
Rich with personal stories to illustrate the concept, each chapter ends with exercises that
can be used individually or in groups to help build a solid foundation for future success.
Everything you need is in this book to build your own role montage and apply your
discoveries to your personal and professional life.
Jan M. Schmuckler, former professor of organizational psychology and
director of the Coaching Certificate Program at J.F. Kennedy University,
developed the concept of role montage while writing her doctoral dissertation
in 1978. For more than thirty years she has used the idea with her coaching
and consulting clients.
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