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Intervention and Leadership
action, however, well intended, will always raise issues of power, competence
and control; so people keep their ‘power dry’ and are more cautious.
Yet in order to expand your repertoire of intervention skills while testing ones
ability to lead and influence, it is useful to discover the impact of such action; to
discover the consequences of action in a place where the stakes are less high.
7. A Learning Framework for Leadership
Educators
The task of designing learning opportunities for those who attend leadership
seminars and workshops
(usually managers who wish to exercise more
leadership, more effectively) is to bring alive, make as real as possible in the
workshop room, the struggles and opportunities that inevitably exist in work
and community groups where well intentional efforts are being made to bring
about change. Too many times, change is treated as a technical problem that
only requires good thinking, analytical skills and an appropriate strategy or
solution.
However, as noted, all groups especially when they involve competing
interests, face hard realities.
Getting people to work well together, when
someone might lose something they value, even if it just a sense of pride in own
prowess, is always going to be hard work but it is the work of leadership.
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