Too often, we think of leadership as a position we hold – team lead, the managing director, CEO, or President. Then we hold back on leading until we assume that role. Or, we think of leadership as a personality trait that some people are born with. Then we hold back on leading because we feel we lack the necessary charisma or gravitas. These are ways of thinking about leadership that are self-limiting. At KONU, we subscribe to the idea that leadership is something you do – it’s an activity (Heifetz 1994). There’s no such thing as a great leader, but there are many opportunities for great leadership. And this can come from many places and people.

In this workshop, we will explore the concept of leadership as an activity, drawing on the Adaptive Leadership framework developed at Harvard University. You’ll:

• Learn to differentiate between leadership and authority

• Understand that good authority work is about meeting expectations

• Understand that good leadership work often entails disappointing expectations and mobilizing collective learning

• Develop ideas for and build your capacity to exercise leadership

• Meet like-minded practitioners

This workshop is suitable for

• executives and team leads who are interested in developing their capacities around mobilizing learning and change in their teams and organizations

• people & learning professionals, who are curious around new ways to think about leadership and management programs for distributed leadership at multiple levels of their organization

• change agents or activists engaged in the dual work of exercising leadership on their causes – and managing their teams

Registration has now closed for this workshop.