A Workshop on Understanding and Adapting Leadership Roles

Purpose:

The purpose of this workshop is to enable leaders to understand and adapt their leadership roles to match their personality, the organisational situation and the people involved. It will develop successful leadership skills.

Leaders don’t all have to be highly dominant, interpersonal wizards, electrifying speakers, leading-edge thinkers or superbly organised – but it does help to be at least some of these things and develop the right mix of styles.

By experimenting (and role-playing), aspiring leaders and existing leaders can discover and explore the five roles identified and shape their abilities to deal with new situations.

Who Should Participate:

Senior Executives, Managers, Team Leaders, Staff Members, Change Managers, HR and OD Managers, Project Managers.

Composition:

Module 1 - About Leadership Roles

• Arriving at the five roles
• Exploring the five leadership roles

• The Edgy Catalyser
• The Visionary Motivator
• The Measured Connector
• The Tenacious Implementer
• The Thoughtful Architect
• What roles do effective leaders use?
• Are the roles independent of each other?

Module 2 - What type of leader are you?

• Analysis of your own roles
• Which roles do you find hardest to adopt
• Which role is most attractive as a role model?
• Which role would you least like to be led by?

Module 3 - Stepping into new roles

• Which roles are needed when?
• Well-defined change vs long-range complex change
• How to step into a new role
• The shadow side of leadership
• Surfacing the shadow
• The roles in action

Derivation:

"Making Sense of Leadership - Exploring the five key roles used by effective leaders" by Esther Cameron and Mike Green published by Kogan Page Ltd. These two UK organisational change consultants, released their research as a book under this title in 2008. It is the result of research conducted in the UK that included a study of 83 experienced leaders and a review of the prior work of others in this field including Belbin, Bennis, Covey, Goleman, Heifetz, Kanter, Kotter, Lipman-Blumen and Senge.

Format & Presentation:

This workshop is intended to be conducted in one day, delivered by a facilitator utilising PowerPoint presentations, a leadership role questionnaire, group exercises based on scenarios, and supported by course manuals.

Benefits:

• The participants will gain an insight into their own leadership roles and learn about adapting their style to encompass other roles when appropriate.
• If the participants are from the one organisation they will discover the diverse leadership roles of their colleagues and enable effective collaboration as a team.
• Organisations will benefit from better success rates in leading the organisation and adapting to the inevitable changes that emerge.