Think about a recent occasion where you feel you learnt a lot about the way people behave at work. . . Describe the situation and what happened. What was it about the experience that made it such an effective learning process?
I work in a number of voluntary organisations.
One place I work at either
a) has no appointed task leaders; Instead it has been left to a 'natural selection' process
or
b) has task leaders who were appointed because they were the only candidates, no-one else stepped forward
Option A lead to people who were bullies stepping into the leadership roles and pushing others around, under the guises of 'organising' and 'teaching'. One consequence was that people who had huge potential but maybe less experience and confidence felt disenfranchised, and cosequently disengaged and left the organisation.
Option B lead to the organisation being hijacked and de-railed. The people who were 'appointed' hadn't been made to outline their 'vision' and cinsequently the appointed individuals' personal agendas replaced the organisation's original aims and objectives.
There will always be people who want to lead and people who want to follow. Unfortunately this is not always the same as who should lead and who would make good leaders.
I came to this through Reflecting on things.
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