An Integral Approach to Transformative Leadership

This essential new book is a practical "how-to" guide to enhancing the quality of relationships between leaders and individuals in organisations - the proven key to maximising performance, building resilience, and retaining talent.

Autorentext

Dorrian Aiken PhD DProf is an Integral Master Coach™, a certified Thinking Environment® coach and consultant, and a founding member of the Time to Think® Collegiate in South Africa. She lectures in leadership coaching at the University of Stellenbosch. Her passion is developing leaders at every level to implement a culture of inclusivity in organisations.

Klappentext

This essential new book is a practical "how-to" guide to enhancing the quality of relationships between leaders and individuals in organisations - the proven key to maximising performance, building resilience, and retaining talent. Integral vision, seen through each of the four quadrants described in this book, gives access to a range of perspectives, irreducible to one another but each significant in adding a kaleidoscope of understanding to a topic or body of knowledge. The author draws on recent research which focuses on Integral theory and emphasises the benefits to an organisation, including cultivating, at several levels, leaders and teams through coaching, improving the quality of meetings, introducing an understanding of emotional intelligence, and more recently, addressing adult stages of development. The book also demonstrates how the Integral quadrants can bring clarity to interpersonal and cross-sector communication, especially in diagnosing, planning, and implementing team and organisational strategy. The concepts and practical skills explored in this book will be a valuable resource for senior leaders, human resources specialists, and in-house and external coaches focusing on leadership development, as well as students and trainers of coaching.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations About the Author Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Mastering the dance: first steps 2. Sweet spots and blind spots 3. A four-quadrant coaching conversation 4. True but partial: "I am right, and I can prove it" 5. Leading the dance of inclusivity 6. Leading a listening culture 7. The Enneagram: self-awareness and relationship management 8. Onwards and upwards: leadership and stages of adult development 9. Revisiting "both-and": working with polarities 10. In Conclusion Bibliography Index