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How do I become
a better leader?
Are our conceptions about leadership built upon an illusion?
A day about complexity thinking and leadership development
together with Professor Ralph Stacey.
VIA University College
HOW DO I BECOME A BETTER LEADER
Be prepared!
For you working with HR, in the field of Leadership
education and development or as a daily leader.
Today you
will have the
possibility
to meet
perspectives
and opinions
that might
start you
thinking
different
about
leadership.
Programe
11.00 – 12.00
Presentation by Mr. Ralph Stacey
09.00 – 09.30 Arrival and coffee
12.00 – 12.45
Lunch
09.30 – 09.40
Welcome and introduction
12.45 – 14.15
Workshops
09.40 – 10.40
•
Leaders
What can we learn from a
• Educators and consultants
Complex Responsive Processes
•HR
of Relating perspective when it
comes to Leadership develop-
14.15 – 14.45
ment and Leadership training
Summing up by Mr. Ralph Stacey
and education? Dr. Ralph Stacey
14.45 – 15.00
10.40 – 11.00
Coffee break
Summing up
VIA University College
HOW DO I BECOME A BETTER LEADER
Ralph Stacey simply talks!
Ralph Stacey does not give a presentation.
He simply talks - and here follows a short outline of some of the topics
Ralph Stacey might talk about.
The ordinary, everyday activity
of leading in organisations
Most people think that leaders determine the vision, purpose,
objectives and targets for the organisational system and then
ensure that the whole system moves in the intended
direction, so becoming what the leader wants it to become.
In order to do this, the leader must shape the organisation’s
values or culture; that is, the deep-seated assumptions governing the behaviour of its individual members, the followers.
I argue that!
To cooperate - and compete
- with each other
A key feature of our everyday lives is that we depend on each
other to do anything. No one, no matter how powerful or charismatic, can do anything all on their own. To do anything at all we
all have to cooperate and compete with each other - we have to
relate to each other. The way in which we cooperate and compete is so obvious that we tend to be rationally blind to it: we
accomplish whatever we accomplish through conversing with
each other, mostly in ordinary, everyday conversation, which includes ‘body language’ and feelings as well as words - rather
than some special form of dialogue. And what we construct in
this way is both ‘good’ and ‘bad’. Sign up and learn more!
The effective leader
The effective leader is one who is recognised as:
- Having the courage to carry on interacting creatively
despite not knowing.
- Displaying an enhanced capacity to think, feel, reflect
and imagine.
Professor Ralph Stacey,
PhD; MSc (econ); BCom; MInstGA
Personal profile
Ralph’s professional background is in management and organisational research. His work experience of more than forty years covers working as an economist in the steel industry,
director of corporate planning in the construction industry, investment strategist in the finance industry, management consultant, group therapist and academic focusing on teaching,
research and research supervision in relation to organisations
and their management. He is now Professor of Management at
the Business School of the University of Hertfordshire.
Information
For you
Working with HR, in the field of Leadership education and development
or as a daily leader.
Time
August 25. 2016,
09.30 – 15.00
Place
VIA, Campus Aarhus N, Hedeager 2,
8200 Aarhus N
Prise
2.350 kr. + moms
Sign up
via.dk/better-leader
Registration deadline
25.07.2016
Contakt
Associate Professor
Jan Grønnebæk
T: +4587551983
E: [email protected]
Administrative partner
Susanne Loft Hultquist Sørensen
7440 - CRJ - 06.2016
T: +4587551845
E: [email protected]