The New Leaders

A Suggested Approach to Increasing Your

Awareness and Growing Through Your BLT

Program.

Leadership and Hope

Hope is the knowledge that we can choose;

that we can learn from our mistakes and act differently next mistakes and act differently next

time.

Senge – The Cultivated Self

“…if you want to be a leader, you have to be a real human being. You must recognise the true meaning of life before you can become a great leader. You must understand leader. You must understand yourself first.

…in this sense, the cultivated self is the leader’s greatest tool…It’s the journey of a lifetime.”

Song of the Open Road

Here is the test of wisdom,Wisdom is not finally tested in schools,

Wisdom cannot be passed from one having it, to an-other not having it,

Wisdom is of the Soul, is not susceptible of proof, isits own proof,

Applies to all stages and objects and qualities, and isApplies to all stages and objects and qualities, and iscontent,

Is the certainty of the reality and immortality ofthings, and the excellence of things;

Something there is in the float of the sight of thingsthat provokes it out of the Soul.

Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass

Becoming a Leader

As Bennis and Goldsmith (1997) express it:…the process of becoming a leader is much the same as the process of is much the same as the process of becoming an integrated human being…leadership is a metaphor for centeredness, congruity and balance in one’s life.

Becoming a Leader

For Taylor authenticity is about developing a personal integrity:“Being true to myself means being true to my own originality, and that true to my own originality, and that is something only I can articulate and discover. In articulating it, I am also defining myself.”

Understanding Personal Authenticity

LITERACY

Cognitive

AffectiveAuthenticity

ACTIONS VALUES

Moral

SpiritualInterpersonal

Personal

Becoming an Authentic Person

• Understanding self in relation to others, living and working through social relationshipssocial relationships

• Growing through the multiple manifestations of loving and being loved, through family life and friendships (social and spiritual)

• A sense of having the potential to achieve self-actualization

Becoming an Authentic Person

• The ability to be creative

• The engagement with beauty in art and nature, from mindscapes to landscapes.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu: “a person is a person through other persons.”

“A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole…”

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

“I am because we are.”

Learning, Authenticity and Complexity

Personal Experience

Emergent Development

High

Involvement

Training Academic Study

Low

Low Complexity High

Involvement

A Typology of Helping Strategies

Friendship

Counselling

Non-directive

Coaching

Mentoring

GenericPersonal

DirectiveTraining

Richard Boyatzis

A Journey Of Discovery

My ideal self

Who do I want to be?

The First Discovery

What metaphors and images do you use to describe your ideal self?

My real self

Who am I?

The Second Discovery

What would your closest friend describe as your greatest strengths and weaknesses?

My learning agenda

How do I build on my strengths and reduce the gaps between my ideal

The Third Discovery

reduce the gaps between my ideal and real self?

How well do you understand yourself as a learner?

The Fourth Discovery

Experimenting with new behaviour

What strategies can I put in place and how do I develop mastery?and how do I develop mastery?

How rich is your portfolio of developmental strategies?

The Fifth Discovery

Developing supportive and trusting relationships to make change possible

Who can help me?

What have been the most significant learning relationships in your life?

Reservoirs of Hope

• Relationships

• Reflection

• Resilience

• Rejoicing

Scaffolding

Masons, when they start upon a building,Are careful to test out the scaffolding;

Make sure that planks won’t slip at busy points,Secure all ladders, tighten bolted joints.

And yet all this comes down when the job’s done,Showing off walls of sure and solid stone.Showing off walls of sure and solid stone.

So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to beOld bridges breaking between you and me, Never fear.

We may let the scaffolds fall,Confident that we have built our wall.

Seamus Heaney From ‘Death of a Naturalist

Thanks

STEVE REMEDIOS