[Ailist] Essentials of (Appreciative) leadership

[Michael Holdstock]

I am in need of help again. What better place to turn the the AI list?

I have been asked to do the seemingly impossible:
"The manager of our department with responsibility for care of senior 
citizens and her 29 unit managers are asking for a 1-1½ day training on 
"Developing from manager to leader" '.
"The best possible outcome of the training would be that the managers take 
home with them instruments which will help them in their function as 
leaders".

Our current best thinking is to:
 - pre-course invite all managers to write down what situatioins they find 
most demanding in their leadership role (so we get an idea as to what tools 
are most required)
 - pre-course do some survey with the people these 29 are managing - 
possibly based on gallups 12-questions about commitment in the workplace - 
which could serve as a base line to measure, every second month say, their 
movement after the course towards these goals (or create the survey based on 
targets developped in the course during Dream and more specifically Design)

Interview/Discover around experiences of OWN leadership and OTHERS 
successfully leading.

Apply whatever has come out of the 4D process to some hard core leadership 
tools such as (appreciative) staff performance appraisals.

"All contributions will be gratefully received".

Thanks in advance.

Mike