Monday, November 03, 2008
As a starting point .... some basic assumptions
You are convinced that your organisation ...
- depends on people-skills as essential to its success
- could work in a way that is both more effective and more satisfying
- relies on good communication as a vital ingredient at all levels of operation, whatever the actual task, and that communication can be improved through specific input
- needs to pay attention to the involvement, motivation and commitment of its people
- needs to develop a shared culture that is aligned with its purpose
- is capable of generating more energy and synergy in its meetings
- could expand its collective learning process, creativity and innovation
- derives its strength to a large extent from the quality of its internal and external relationships
- has not yet accessed its potential in terms of human resources
- is made more robust through the diversity of its people and their conflicting views
- can benefit from an added injection of 'emotional intelligence'
You think that good leadership ...
- stands and falls with the capacity to make key relationships work
- involves more than an autocratic style with directives, policies and top-down instructions
- requires flexibility and responsiveness and that a variety of leadership styles and behaviour may be appropriate in different situations
- depends on sensitivity to the organisational culture and emergent trends
- strikes a balance between masculine and feminine forms of authority
- extends across all levels of communication, including non-verbal messages
- grows out of self-awareness as an essential key to good relationships
- relies on intuitive faculties as well as rational-analytic thought
You believe that ...
- the psychological models and methods used in modern organisations are out-dated and inadequate
- an organisation needs to serve its people as well as the people the organisation
- people are complex beings with a physical and emotional as well as rational reality
- much organisational energy is wasted on ingrained habitual patterns and that working through these patterns requires some key psychological skills
You want to learn more about ...
- multiple intelligences and how to access their potential in an organisational context
- the conscious and unconscious dynamics of individuals, groups and social systems
- engaging with a broad range of people and turning diversity into synergy
- integral models for understanding emergent processes and evolutionary trends in social organisms
- dealing with irrational human reactions and limiting habitual patterns
- your own leadership habits and their developmental origins and potential
- a 21st-century understanding of psychology, based on modern neuroscience, applicable to everyday situations
If a good number of these points are true for you, Communitas events are going to be an ideal environment for you to enhance your presence, skills and capacities as a leader. You will see the point of participating in a large group that mirrors the dynamics of any social organism and thus allows real-time organisational learning.
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