He is a consultant and has many years of experience in the field of leadership.
John Moalusi.
A very dynamic quote is that of Manfred Ketz De Vries the very first qoute with which he introduces the manual and the lecture: 'If we are to understand leadership, we have to pay attention to the internal and social dynamics, to the complex playing fields between leaders and follower, and to unconscious and invisible psychodynamics processes and structures that influence the behaviour of individuals and groups in organizations'. The content of his lecture is purely build and applied around this quote.
He at first also emphasized the fact that we should
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Read.... one of the most important activities and this to him is sustainable!
He clearly distinguished between managers and leaders. Managers just do it that way! while a leader will think deeply about things and then change them. The humbleness of a leader will take the approach of 'how do you feel ... / what if we do it this ....' and through this approach the leader creates followers. Through so much info, approaches, attitudes, values, emotional competency and examples of the characteristics of a leader it was quite clear that one cannot do this on your own or alone.
What also stood out for me was the Seven Habits of Effective People just to be reminded that one has to be in sync with yourself and if necessary you need to switch off from time to time, re-consider and if needed change focus and therefor continues improvement is important for what he called 'the world view - and this is about what is in your head'. Self-awareness is should be kept in mind at all times.
Group work also included a scenario, e.g. staff resisting change. The group had then to discuss
1 The Problem need to be defined
2 Diagnose - the what? be it leadership / management?
3 Define the solution - through leadership / management
4 What strategies can be applied to solve the problem?
This was very interesting in how each group came up with their approach to these steps.
Leadership is very complex and in the different leadership styles there is not one that can be said - this is the perfect one. Each leadership style do have pros and cons and has said previously it is important to continuously take time and re-think and re-consider, your attitude in life is what direct you. My observation about leadership was that although you have created yourself a good set of values the success of being a good leader is very complex and not easy.
But even so - this was a very interesting day and John presented engaging through-out the day. The diversity of his experience in business and politics shared with us made good examples of how to approach the complexity of leadership.
