stop making sense (for others). on storytelling & shared leadership
TRANSCRIPT
STORYTELLING & Shared
LEADERSHIP
power, perversion & potential
Stop making sense (for others)
Talk @ Dare Festival, Belgium, Dec 10th 2014
Hans Donckers – The Future Leadership Initiative
ego states
DISCOVER: Collecting your story building blocks
DESIGN: Writing inspiring and convincing stories
DELIVER: Telling your stories with impact
Positive energy/feeling+
-Negative energy/feeling
Discovering your story building blocks
What are the underlying drivers and values?What’s your mission? What could be a title for your story?
EXERCISE
Share in pairs.Did you feel inspired?
How/where would you use your own story?
The Identity Story Template
The story of who you are is usually a prelude to some other communication – your main communication.
E.g. proposing a change, announcing a decision, marketing or selling a product.
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BUT …
THE HERO LEADER SYNDROME
BUT …
Contr’un = anti-one
Structure Culture Labour HR
Bureaucracy • Specialisation• Seperation
doing-thinking• Central decision
making
• Hierarchical• Position = status• Focus on power
• Routine• Task separation
• Classical HR practices & processes
Flexible organization
• Process oriented• Decentralisation:
reconnect doing-thinking
• Process = leading• Focus on
competence• Results
orientation
• Broad tasks• Employability• Team work
• Classical HR practices & processes
Networked organization
• Leadership = shared
• Complete decentralisation
• Temporarynetworks
• Customer and people focussed
• Employee = business partner
• Involvement• Participation• Creativity• Variation• People =
continuity
• Organization design & development
• Culture
Kuipers et al (2010)
Leadership. To share or not to share?
QUESTION
Does your own story fit your org’s story?
Are you invited to co-write this story?
Do you claim the mandate?
EXPERIMENT
WHICH SHARED STORIES CAN WE WRITE
HERE AND NOW?
1. Where do we come from?2. Where shall we go together?3. How will we get there?4. Transition ritual…5. Storydoing
Shared story, shared leadership
© StoryDoing.com
Thanks!
Hans Donckers / The Future Leadership Initiative / Antwerp Management School