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who are you?

I’m still learning to be mein which case....

What do I mean by me?

What do I mean by society?And, what do I mean by learning?

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This week we are going to look at....

• How is work today different?

• What can I do to adapt?

• Why is lifelong learning important

• What is leadership and how is it different from management?

• emotionally intelligent leadership

• coaching models and how to put them into practice

• leadership styles and how to adapt them to work.

• How to tell the difference between management and leadership.

•Monday, December 19, 11

work now and then

• in 1905 the average working year was 2900 hours

• but the big difference:

• the idea of a consistent working life has gone. Lives are no longer lived in a straight line. We change jobs, we change lives. We have ever changing identities...

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1906 1946 1988UK Hours worked in a year (Hall, P. Social Capital in Britain, 1999)

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Dostoevsky:: Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

‘satanic mills’ - William Blake


Why are people unhappy:

‘Musturbation’ or the problem of high expectations - or

rational emotive behaviour therapy (psychologist, Alber Ellis)

For me to be happy..... Everyone must like me Life must be easyI must be succesful


or to keep it really simple: technology of the self

“regard”, “poetic distance” - the capacity to observe deeply

the capacity to reflectto say “I screwed up”to say “I’m sorry”to say “I’m happy’ with

what i’ve got”to say i won’t be doing

this for the rest of my life..

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pygmalionbad, bad coaching like bad science is everywhere: be critical, be sceptical

Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychotherapist and disciple of Sigmund Freud, also invented the the orgone accumulator. His theory being that almost all psychological problems could be solved with an optimal orgasm. And the orgone accumulator provided just that for Mailer, Salinger, Burroughs and Kerouac

he later applied the same ‘science’ to rainmaking....

and the orgone cloudburster

read more about Wilhelm in ‘adventures in the orgasmatron: how the sexual revolution came to America’, by Christopher Turner (2011)https://www.facebook.com/pygmalion2







Spanish chefs: A success story• passion for what they do

• apprenticeships away from home

• formal lifelong training

• interconnected

• hugely flexible in hours, pay and location

• learning for life and communication with peers, conferences, congresses

• total flexibility - constant movement between restaurants

• Can you think of any more reasons for their success







what does work expect from you?• Are you strong on collaborative

leadership

• Can you work as part of a team?

• Can you embrace change?

• How many languages do you speak?

• Lifelong learning?







Learn this by Friday! Why exams are useless...

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Knud Illeris et al, (2009) Contemporary Theories of Learning, Routledge.






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assimilative learning

school subjects: learning is cumulative and related closely to a context. difficult to access outside this context.

lifelong learning... how do I have to learn?

transcendent learning

something isolated from context but forces us to rethink how we do something. accepting something and internalising it.

transformative learning

something which changes us, our personality and how we see the world. This hurts!

cumulative learning: your pin number

your dog learning to sit







The coping cycle(Source: adapted from Carnall, 2007, p. 241.)

Think about your own experiences and those of colleagues in confronting a major change at work or in life.1 How far did people’s responses follow the stages of the coping cycle?2 Why do you think the reactions you describe were similar or different to those described in the stages above?

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leadership


but who wins?

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menwomen

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earnings difference based on agreeability

Judge, T. A., Livingston, B. A., & Hurst, C. (2011, November 28). Do Nice Guys—andGals—Really Finish Last? The Joint Effects of Sex and Agreeableness on Income. Journal ofPersonality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0026021

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styles and schools of leadership• transactional

• charismatic

• ubuntu

• transformational

• servant leadership

• strategic leadership

• team/eleadership

• invisible leadership

• collective leadership

controller: scientific

management FW Taylor,

etc

therapist: mayo, maslow

up to goleman,

boyatzis, etccharismatic: steve jobs, etcdanger - the ‘romance’ of

leaders

eco leaders: ?distributed, ‘ecological’,

wikihiperconnect

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cultural ‘zeitgeist’ for the 21st century.... or is it ‘schadenfreude’?

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accountability


when do we do leadership?

• command

• management

• leadership

adapted from Keith Grint ‘ wicked problems, clumsy solutions

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• critical

• tame problem

• diabolical problem

Imagine: you break your leg. Your friends take you to hospital. This is a critical situaton and the response is clear. At the hospital, the doctors apply ‘elegant solutions’. they use management and follow process. But what type of problem is it if you are taken to a restaurant?







elegant and clumsy solutions - K Grint

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command

manage

lead

tame

wicked

critical

coercionhard power

calculationrational

normativeemotionalsoft power

increasing need for collaborative

solution

increasing uncertainty about

the solution


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Global Warming: group/grid model

Fatalists: Nothing can be done. people are selfish.

the end of the world is inevitable

Hierarchistthe rules should be stricter. Get a disciplinarian to enforce Kioto.

Individualistswe need to encourage companies to create. market forces will solve the

problem

Egalitarians we need to consume less and move

towards sustainable community life

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grid:increasing rules and regulations

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Douglas, M, (2008/1966) Purity and Danger, Routledge.






bibliography

Douglas, M, (2008/1966) Purity and Danger, Routledge.

Grint, K, (2005) ‘Problems, Problems, Problems: The Social Construction of Leadership’, Human Relations, 58,11, 1467- 1494.

G. Hamel, (2007), The Future of Management, Harvard

Knud Illeris et al, (2009) Contemporary Theories of Learning, Routledge.

Michael Foley, (2010)The Age of Absurdity, Simon & Schuster

Richard Wiseman, 2010, 59 seconds.

Dave Grey et al, (2011) Gamestorming, O’Reilly.


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