TtaaPosterLeadershipOne
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(Poster from OT2001 session ToTrainAnArchitect)
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Leadership/Decision-making
- These can be taught with formal training courses ...
- up to a point!!!!
- No substitute for experience…
- How do you get experience?
Leadership
- Outward-bound courses
- Utilise existing skills in a gradual move towards architectural role
- Co-leading
- Go somewhere with high attrition rates - soon you will rule the world!
Decision-making
- Learn to spot areas of conflict, and jump in with both feet!
- Don’t be afraid of mistakes
- Document decisions for others
- Work alongside decision makers to understand thought-processes
Generic
- Start off in areas of comfort with respect to existing skills and experience
- Lead and decide in these areas, learn to deal with success and failure in relative comfort, then move on
Annotations
General comment - very experience-based
Context is important
What is the role of feedback? How is it managed?
Learn to spot areas of conflict - how?
Co-leading - Pair Leadership
Areas of comfort - innovation cannot come from comfort
Commentary
Interesting that this poster produced the most in the way of annotations. The main message of this poster for me is to encourage learning from experience. While agreeing with the note that innovation cannot come from comfort, the relationship between innovation and leadership is a complex one. Putting people in leadership situations in areas in which they are not familiar with people, process, business, technology, can accelerate personal development and learning, but more likely (IMO) it will lead to stress and failure (both personal and organisational).
I remember reading that pair leadership is practised formally in some organisations - does anyone else have a reference to this? I know from experience that it happens informally in many situations.
