winsor jenkins - award winning author
In 2007, I wrote, The Collaborator, where I married my passion for leadership and leadership development with my passion for the sport of soccer. Written in the form of an allegory, readers are introduced to a new, innovative platform and process for developing leaders who effectively collaborate and produce win-win outcomes. The book won the 2009 AXIOM Business Book Award, Bronze Medal Winner - International Business!
In 2014, I left the corporate world and started my consulting, training, and coaching business with a focus on collaborative leadership development. This led to co-developing a new team development training program in 2016, called The Collaboration Game, designed to help people develop a collaborative mind-set and skill set to enact genuine team collaboration in the workplace.
In 2018, I was asked by the Association for Talent Development (ATD) to serve as one of five contributing authors to write Chapter Three - Collaboration, for their book, Focus on Them. Through ATD's management research, the ACCEL Model was developed identifying Collaboration as one of five key skills for front-line managers to learn for today's changing workplace.
In 2021, I published my latest book, Game of Teams, to help people understand the power of working with a leader/team coach for developing their "Self-Awareness" leading to more effective collaborative leadership and team success. Written in the form of an allegory, readers follow the exploits of a newly promoted manager who learns, with the help of a coach, how to kick-start their journey to become a collaborative leader.
Prior to all of that, I wrote articles for the National Soccer Coaches Association of America's magazine, Soccer Journal, in 1997 -1998 and The Journal of the Human Resources Planning Society (2005).
Winsor Jenkins is former senior-level business leader who played a key in-house role in the development of leaders at all levels. Currently, he serves as a leadership coach and consultant.
His interest in collaboration began when, too frequently, he found himself trying to persuade people to set aside their focus on win-lose outcomes and instead work to generate win-win outcomes.
He is a graduate of Cornell University (BS Industrial & Labor Relations) and the University of Idaho (MBA). Winsor received his Coaching training from the Hudson Institute of Coaching and is a certified coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). He is also certified in a variety of leadership development programs and assessments tools, including Situational Leadership II, MBTI, and Polaris Competency Model and 360.
Publications
BOOKS:
- The Collaborator: Discover Soccer as a Metaphor for Global Business Leadership (2007)
- Focus On Them (2018 - ATD Press)
- Game of Teams: Discover How to Become a Collaborative Leader (2021)
ARTICLES (Sample):
- Soccer Metaphor Works Best (Soccer Journal)
- Situational Leadership (Soccer Journal)
- Partners On the Field (Soccer Journal)
- The Pitch for a New Leadership Metaphor (Journal of HRPS)
BLOG POSTS (Recent)
- LOST CAUSES: Collaborative Leadership Lessons - 2022 Soccer World Cup
- GAMECHANGER: Collaborative Leadership Lessons - 2022 Soccer World Cup
- IT'S ALL IN THE GAME: Collaborative Leadership Lessons - 2022 Soccer World Cup
- GOOD TO GREAT: Collaborative Leadership Lessons - 2022 Soccer World Cup
- BLOOD, SWEAT & TEAMS: Collaborative Leadership Lessons - 2022 Soccer World Cup
- SEEING IS BELIEVING: Collaborative Leadership Lessons - 2022 Soccer World Cup:
- Metaphors People Can Act-On in Positive Ways for a Hybrid Workplace
- Redefining Collaboration for a Hybrid Workplace
- Your Team's Virtual Platform to Effectively Collaborate in a Hybrid Workplace
- Wake Up: Realize There Are Leaders Everywhere!
- Leadership Development for a Hybrid Workplace
- Collaboration is Deliberate Teamwork in a Hybrid Workplace