Leadership tic-tac-toe: cultivating organisational learning

Let’s talk about leadership… Definition of leader a person who rules or guides or inspires others

Leading vs managing Definition of manager a person who controls and manipulates resources

Shared leadership: leaders and followers Definition of a follower a person who commits and actively contributes to outcomes

What is a learning organization? …where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nutured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning together…(Senge)

Seven elements Clarity Creation Community Collaboration Conversation Connectivity Commitment

Clarity O

Be clear on your Purpose Definition Vision Expectations

X Creation O

Knowledge creation is social Individual Collective

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X O Community O

Definition of community a unified body of individuals joint ownership or participation social activity

Community of practice a group of people informally bound together by shared expertise and passion for joint enterprise

O O X Collaboration X

Teaming across all vertical and horizontal levels of an organization

O O X Conversation O X

Social learning conversation, imitatio n, context, mode l l ing behaviour

Creating the informal builds: community & relationships

O O X Connectivity O X X

Technology supports knowledge transfer

Making local knowledge global

O O X Commitment O X X O

Across all levels of an organization

Commitment to Being a leader and follower Competency and focus Self management The organization Others

Summation The learning organization requires effective leadership across all levels

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Acknowledgements All images are courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons Slides 1, 7, 9, 12, 15, 17, 20, 23: Morpion by _boris Slide 2: Leadership by pedrosimoes7 Slide 3: Best Buy Manager by msun523 Slide 4: Follow my leader by Leonard John Slide 5: landscape abstract by dsevilla Slide 6: Prairie storm (v. 2.0) by quas Slide 8: infinity and clarity by Unfurled Slide 10, 11: "Grand Design" spiral galaxy M81 by TopTechWriter.US Slide 13: scatter the sun by ecstaticist Slide 14: bounce by bayat Slide 16: stop, collaborate and listen by lindseyy Slide 18: conversation by tanakawho Slide 19: Conversation in the clouds by Swamibu Slide 21: we are all connected by Erica_Marshall Slide 22: Globe by _fLeMmA_ Slide 24: Commitment by eschipul Slide 25: Forever our wedding rings by Carlo Nicora Slide 26: Abstract lights 8109 by atomicShed Slide 27: There is 1 questions by there is