Visionary Leadership
The Business Need
In a very complex world there is a growing hunger for leadership. This hunger is fuelled by an increasing concern for sustainability, abundant bad leadership, increasing workplace complexities, tempos of change, failing management sciences and an increasing demand for high humanness/high efficiency working environments. The world over leadership is replacing management. And it is evident that all sectors of society demand extraordinary leaders supported by new, alternate leadership ideas.
The Solution
In contrast to selling old ideas packaged into new pots, Fullstream offers true innovation. The emerging fusion philosophy and models selectively draw on the following bodies of knowledge:
- Alternate academia invited ideas into leadership development that have been ignored and avoided by dominant academic narratives. (E.g. Qualitative research methodologies, social constructionism, multilogues, deconstruction theory, etc.)
- Modernist leadership ideas are deconstructed for their underpinning value systems, assumptions, power relations, objectivity/subjectivity and discourses in order to remain abreast of their development, trends and fads and where appropriate invited into fusion.
- The European Union within the 4th wave invites a commitment to visionary and ethical leadership.
- Past and current pioneering European leadership practices are appreciated for their innovation, local contextual successes and their practices reflected with meaning and context.
- Ancient local wisdom (e.g. Celtic) - researched both informally in old communities and through story telling traditions and formally as Indigenous Knowledge Systems - contribute extraordinary wisdom and elegant ideas.
Our Approach
Good (ethical and effective) leadership is in a circular relationship with benefits. Not only does such leadership deliver benefits to its leaders and followers, it is also informed and strengthened by benefits.
- Foster increased awareness and ethical empowerment
- Leadership capability/competency requires wisdom
- Leadership, organisational energy and action
Leadership operates in all the core areas of the organisation. Not only does leadership play a definitive role in strategy formulation and execution, it facilitates synergistic organisational culture, and is instrumental in the planning and coordination of an organisation's action through systems and processes.
Leadership functions within, and in relation to, contexts. These contexts range from a leader's personal environment to ultimately the world.
Some key elements of modern leadership are:
- Time - function well in the present and at the same time pursue an alternate future,
- Character - committed personal development related to local context,
- Ethics - commitment to values, power and self-reflection for the common good,
- Delivery excellence - mastery of core mission,
- Practice - transform organisational culture, inspire excellence and transform context.
- Philosophy - based on a solid fusion foundation.
The Benefits
Extraordinary (ethical) leadership promises to facilitate:
- More meaningful and sincere interpersonal relations;
- The 'triple bottom-line' - Planet, People, Profit;
- Ethical society in its broadest sense;
- Team spirit beyond team work, synergy, high care/high trust organisations
- Welcoming and high energy/creativity/diversity workplaces,
- Increased personal meaning, ethical joy and fulfilment,
- Higher efficiency - for self and others, i.e. working smarter and not harder;
- Effective transformation and future-enabling legacies.
Our Experience
Within a rapidly re-integrating society - our leadership development is focused into all spheres of life:
- Academia - 3rd year elective module in MBA programme;
- Local Government - programmes ranging from strategic and executive levels to supervisory.
- Social - School staff and learners, young adult entrepreneurs and women awareness/empowerment.
- Business - Team spirit development; Strategic, Division and business unit leadership; Organisational culture change.
Contact Us
To learn more about how our Visionary Leadership experience could benefit your next investment decision, contact luthando.prinsloo@fullstream.ie.