Leadership:
Leadership is the skill of nurturing a learning
organization to achieve greater effectiveness and efficiency through:
Learning Organization is the most important intervention tool for
organizational development,
The 5 Learning Disciplines
1. Personal
Mastery
2. Mental
Models,
3. Shared
Vision,
4. Systems Thinking and
5. Team Learning
These 5 disciplines are each made up of a set of tools and practices for building and sustaining learning leadership capability in organizations.
Module 1: Personal mastery:
Personal
mastery is the discipline of personal growth and learning. It is the expansion
of ability to create the results in life that one is seeking. It is a process.
It is not something that you possess.[FM1] [JP2]
Module
2: Household production of health:
This module discusses household
production of health and mental model.
Mental Model: “Mental Models are
deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures or images that
influence how we understand the world and how we take action.” (Peter Senge, 5th
Discipline, 1990).
Module
3: System thinking
Systems
thinking is a discipline for seeing the whole, not only the parts of the whole.
It is a structure or framework for seeing the interrelationship between parts
(variables/factors) rather than seeing the parts separately.
Module 4: Being
proactive
Being Proactive aims to harness the
instincts of the leaders to boost-up their sense of responsibility and
proactiveness.
Module 5: Shared
vision
A
collective vision or shared vision is dreaming together of what you and other
members want to accomplish or create as a part of the organization.
To
be an exemplary leader, you have to be able to inspire a Shared Vision.
Module
6: Constraints & opportunities
This step is
crucial in grounding the strategy in reality. Why is there a difference between current reality and your vision? This is the key to making a good
analysis. The technical term that describes this is “root
cause analysis”.
Module
7: Team building
Team
building is the process of bringing together a group of individuals to enhance
their relationships, improve collaboration, and increase overall effectiveness
as a team.
Module 8: Strategy designing and Action
planning
Strategy design is the process of outlining what we want to
change and what we need to do to achieve our Vision.
Module 9: Effective communication
Good communication is the lifeblood
of organizations. The art of getting a message across so the audience
understands and responds is a critical part of being an effective manager and
leader.