Learning While Sprinting With Teresa Woodland (Episode 101)

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Amiel Handelsman: Executive Coach and Change Consultant

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Learning While Sprinting With Teresa Woodland (Episode 101)

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1 hour 19 seconds

6 years ago

Learning While Sprinting With Teresa Woodland (Episode 101)

Teresa Woodland spent three decades working and living in China during its extraordinary economic and cultural transformation.
Now back in the United States, she joins me to discuss what the West can learn from China. We discuss the Chinese ability to learn while sprinting, the virtues of systems thinking and embrace of paradox, how to have a light touch with “back-of-mind” stakeholders, conversations for exploring disappointments, why it’s unwise to “wait until things so down”, and how she wins the right to be on a journey with companies.
Highlights

* 8:30 Why the Chinese chew on western models of adult development, but don’t swallow them whole
* 18:00 The talent story in China beneath the economic and policy headlines
* 26:00 Western action learning works—but is there an even more pragmatic way to learn?
* 31:00 Lessons from adopting a child and working with an orphanage
* 37:00 Creating light touches sooner with “back-of-mind” stakeholders
* 46:00 A Chinese company that looks ahead even while it’s sprinting
* 52:00 Teresa always starts with the business issues and intersperses the learning in between
* 57:00 Getting grounded by cuddling with your kids

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* Teresa Woodland’s company, WuDeLan Partners

Teresa Woodland spent three decades working and living in China during its extraordinary economic and cultural transformation.
Now back in the United States, she joins me to discuss what the West can learn from China. We discuss the Chinese ability to learn while sprinting, the virtues of systems thinking and embrace of paradox, how to have a light touch with “back-of-mind” stakeholders, conversations for exploring disappointments, why it’s unwise to “wait until things so down”, and how she wins the right to be on a journey with companies.
Highlights

* 8:30 Why the Chinese chew on western models of adult development, but don’t swallow them whole
* 18:00 The talent story in China beneath the economic and policy headlines
* 26:00 Western action learning works—but is there an even more pragmatic way to learn?
* 31:00 Lessons from adopting a child and working with an orphanage
* 37:00 Creating light touches sooner with “back-of-mind” stakeholders
* 46:00 A Chinese company that looks ahead even while it’s sprinting
* 52:00 Teresa always starts with the business issues and intersperses the learning in between
* 57:00 Getting grounded by cuddling with your kids

Listen to the Podcast
Read the Transcript
You can download a complete, word-for-word transcript of this episode here.
Explore Additional Resources

* Teresa Woodland’s company, WuDeLan Partners