Books
I love to write and recently decided to begin my first novel. So far there is no title, no words written down, just some ideas floating in my head. However everything starts with an idea!
Tri-namics
My business partner Erna Hagge and I created the Tri-namics system. We worked on these books together over a period of 10 years, and they were used across Canada by individuals, coaches, and facilitators, organizations and the health system. These resource books contain 40+ exercises for leadership wisdom, 500+ provocative questions to reflect, act and innovate, and 12 leading-edge applications to develop leaders, teams and organizations. Published by Deberna Coaching International. If you would like to order one or more books please contact me. I would be delighted to share with you what I know. My dear friend Erna has now passed on, and these books are part of her legacy, as well as the many coaching clients she worked with over her years as an Executive Coach.
Tri- namics: Leadership Wisdom for the Health System (2015) is designed to be a leadership development program resource book used by all levels and types of health professionals across Canada. It has been used in health authorities, hospitals, university health programs, nursing and physician associations and individual practitioners in a variety of health settings. It contains and aligns with the National LEADS development framework which was first developed in BC.
It may be used for individual leadership development, by coaches working with clients or teams. and many other broader applications to improve organizational culture.
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"A remarkable 'must have' resource for the emerging health care leader, current managers and health executives alike."
–Paul Gallant, CHE, PhD(C), MHK, BRECITR, Gallant HealthWorks &Associates
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Tri-namics: Provocative Questions for Leadership Wisdom (2012), may be used with any organization or to develop, engage and encourage employees to work on their own leadership, with a coach, or form a learning team. This resource can also be used to increase leadership skills through workshops and improve culture.
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"Tri-namics has truly helped me in my leadership journey. I've been able to ask stronger, more meaningful questions, become more personally reflective, and been a more effective mentor for others as well."
– Mat Todd, Director of Learning and Organizational Development for Plan International Canada, an organization dedicated to advancing children's rights and equality for girls. Previous roles were the Associate Director of Learning and Performance Development for WE and the Executive Director of Youth Programs for the Institute for Health and Human Potential.
Tri-namics: Coaching Triangle System (2006), focuses on the power of three, three people working together to support and challenge each other as they work though leadership exercises applicable to their work.
The essence of this system and resource was piloted by several groups of three individuals, by Debbie at Terasen Gas Inc., and by Erna at the University of British Columbia in the years prior to publication.
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"In this day and age of instant digital communication where we have lost touch with personal and thoughtful communication, Tri-namics brings everything back into perspective."
– Steve Whiteside MA, PCC, PhD. He is the President of The Franchise Leadership Center, Director of Business Development and Industry Relationships at University Canada West, and a celebrated executive coach.
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Leaderspace
LeaderSpace is a small 40 page booklet I wrote in 2011. The subtitle is Noticing the Unseen, Silence, Intangibles, Felt Differences, and Intuition as it Relates to Leadership.
Some of the information came from posts on my LeaderSpace blog. I actively wrote on this blog from 2010-2015. I learned much in my work with creative and brilliant organizational leaders about space in and around what we do as leaders.
This little booklet is no longer available for purchase in print. I am looking into making it available as an e-book.
The Business Leaders Book Club
Book Chapter: The Box with No Walls. I was asked to write one of the chapters for this book.
My thought was no more thinking about “inside the box” or “outside the box thinking” but rather just no box thinking, or a box with no walls so that thinking could flow, be fluid, less rigid. New ideas can flow around and in between each other.
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“We need to make the world safe for creativity and innovation, for it's creativity and innovation that makes the world safe for us.”
– Dr. Edgar Mitchell
Butterflies
I edited and supported my father to write and publish these two books as a legacy for our family. ‘Bits of My Life’ was printed just before he passed away. In fact he held the first copy of it the night before he passed and was able to physically give copies to a few of his grandchildren. The second book ‘My War” is about his two years serving his country training pilots during WWII, and he never left Canada. It was finalized and printed in time for all of his family to receive one the following Christmas in 2017.
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Butterflies were very significant to my parents Richard and Dorothy Rennie. Rooted in a poem my father wrote to my mother about the strength and fragility of love, my sisters and I had butterfly pictures, ornaments and conversations about them throughout our childhood. My father also started the Butterfly Foundation (Vancouver Foundation) to support youth and families, in honour of our mother.
