The personal leadership work to be completed in this programme is an opportunity to orientate yourself inside your leadership thinking.
Leadership is historically judged on actions taken. In large organisational systems, this is often influenced by the expectations of others, perceived norms and boundaries, and a culture of obedience.
This leads to the idea that where a few people are doing all of the thinking, most people are not. Without intention, this creates a culture of learned helplessness where thinking is not valued as much as action.
The idea of Personal Leadership has always mattered to me. Connecting to values, understanding my impact and being accountable. This has nothing to do with being leader in a hierarchal sense and everything to do with leading yourself wherever you are in your life and your work. Personal Leadership is for everyone, irrespective of age, experience or position. It’s about leading yourself in your life. We have developed some intentional work around this. The programme you are about to undertake is a consequence of that work.
Whether you are undertaking this development path as individual, as a team or as part of a wider organisational leadership programme, this BLUE BOX toolkit will support you to think deeply and differently about your personal leadership.
The BLUE BOX is a set of online resources, tools and ideas that will help you with the ‘HOW’ of ‘WHAT’ you can do to be effective and engaging in your role as a leader.
This toolbox supports your learning by supporting you to explore your Personal Leadership and to Engage Others on your journey.
The toolbox encourages you to reflect in a positive way to support your resilience, the resilience of your colleagues and teams, and ultimately the resilience of the system as the new world emerges.
It feels critical to capture positive change, reflect on loss and define the leadership required for the emerging future. The programme poses the fundamental question ‘What do I need to let go of and what do I need to learn?’
The simplicity of the question believes in the fact that the consideration of it needs space and that space needs to be held. The desire of this Personal Leadership Programme is that it creates that space, whilst being absolutely mindful that it must not add additional stress in terms of time and expectations.
Listen to Alison McKeen speaking about her experience of using the Blue Box.
In each section, there will be:
Talking about the topics and underpinning thinking
Resources and materials to download
Reference to further reading
Links to inspiring film clips
Fiona MacNeill is also on hand to support with specific questions, challenges and opportunities. This support can be around anything including any additional support needs please feel free to reach out in confidence. Our desire is for everyone to be comfortable.
