[Ailist] Essentials of (Appreciative) leadership

[Rob Voyle]

Hi Michael

I make use of the Leadership Practices Inventory LPI by Kouzes and Posner.  
They had done an appreciative inquiry into leadership long before anyone was 
using the words AI.  The LPI can be a 360 (check the safety of the organization 
before using the 360 aspect.)  The LPI generates 5 core competencies of leaders 
which you can find sumarized at
http://www.clergyleadership.com/leadership/leadership.html
In the training programs I do I use appreciative inquiry exercises to help people 
discover their experience of these competencies.  You can find the LPI at 
www.lpionline.com The facilitators guide comes with alternative strategies and 
materials for leading workshops.

The other thing I would focus on is the Core Purpose and values of the 
organization.  Good leaders are guided by these and use them to reorient people 
back to the purpose, to make decisions and prepare for the future.

Rob
  
Robert J. Voyle, Psy.D.
Director, Clergy Leadership Institute
For Coaching and Training in Appreciative Inquiry
Author: Core Elements of the Appreciative Way 
http://www.clergyleadership.com/
503-647-2378 or 503-647-2382



On 29 Sep 2007 at 17:31, Michael Holdstock wrote:

> 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
> 
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