By Tester1
Leadership emerges from the interactions between people and good leadership is exemplified by exchanges that leave all parties feeling that they have been understood and their interests accounted for. Good leadership is therefore relational not transactional. And at the heart of this kind of leadership is perspective taking capacity – the ability to understand the […]
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Here is Derek Sivers’ great TED talk about the role of leadership and followers when it comes to creating a movement. Derek highlight the important moment when it becomes more uncool not to dance than to dance. This is the point where the leaders efforts pay off and the followers take on the leader’s ideas […]
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By Tester1
Effective leadership questions are at the heart of great leadership. This is because great leadership is relational, not transactional. As leadership expert Michael Cavanagh contends, “the quality of the conversation determines the quality of the relationships and the quality of the relationships determines the quality of the organisational system”. And, in my view, it is […]
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In this video I reflect on some of the challenges I’ve been facing in a new leadership role that I have taken up, and relate these to some of my earlier learning on effective leadership. There are three principles of effective leadership that my former tutor, Michael Cavanagh, suggested are especially applicable to leadership in […]
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