INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 5-7 NOV 2020 “LEADING AT THE EDGE” – HIGHLIGHTS 400+presentations and workshops and virtual networking and exhibitions
Ron Heifetz (“The Practice of Adaptive Leadership” (2009)) in a riveting conversation with Ron Reggio. Theyspoke of research questions in leadership and spoke of the need for precision in terms (“too much poetry at the moment!”) and of need for addressing the work of leadership. This work should start with the challenges and context people are dealing with, and not starting with attributes and tools. They also spoke about the need for understanding loss as central to change and how to acknowledge that as part of social mobilisation, and how to rebuild trust as the foundation of leadership.
Barbara Kellerman, author of “Professionalising Leadership” (2016), talked about her latest book “Leaders who Lust” (2020) where she talks about mostly bad leaders and their singular zeal/passion that drives them such as power, success and legitimacy; her latest book “Enablers” about positive leadership behaviour is due out in 2021.
John Hinck, of Air University, Albamba, the US Airforce’s training college outlined its leadership programme, and how analysis of essays at course’s start and end show changes in thinking on leadership.
Susan Komives, leading thinker on college leadership, has carried out analysis of the range of disciples and how they impact on learning leadership capabilities also spoke.
Jorrit Volkers (of Deloittes University) and Gill R. Hichman ed of “Leading Organisations: Perspectives for a New Era” (3rd edition 2015) had a fascinating conversation about their collaboration over the last decade, which led to a much more dynamic and multi-layered framework for Deloittes leadership programmes.
Scott Allen challenged the training of leaders by comparing such training with that of pilots and doctors, and suggesting that a much more systematic approach is needed. He uses five leadership models to underpin the building of such competences.
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