Session Type: Workshop Accepted by MIG(s): Development Time Allotted: 75 Description: Irresponsible leadership practices are often at the core of business, public and third sector failures. Around the world, there are clarion calls for responsible leadership and the transformation of global leadership practices/education/development. In this workshop, the Principles for Responsible Leadership Education/Development will be presented and avenues for rapid implementation discussed. Abstract: During the first decade of the 21st century, there have been far too many cases of irresponsible leadership that have contributed to organisational failures across all sectors and around the world. Consequently, there are regular clarion calls for responsible leadership practices and development. Although vast amounts are invested in leadership education/development globally, irresponsible leadership practices clearly result in part from the lack of responsible leadership education/development.
In the spirit of Leadership 2.0, and in order to address the failures of leadership as perceived by the common person around the world, several ILA members are working on the ‘Good Leadership for All’ portfolio of projects to transform global leadership. These are centred around the Universal Declaration of Leadership Responsibilities (UDLR), which is focused on transforming global leadership practice. From the work on UDLR, has emerged the need to also transform global leadership education/development in all contexts, sectors, practices and at all levels. It is clear that although there are many good intentions and some ongoing responsible leadership initiatives around the world, these are generally considered limited in scope, objectives, and impact on leadership education/development globally. As a result, the Principles for Responsible Leadership Education/Development (PRLED) project was born.
If PRLED and the Good Leadership for All portfolio of projects can be delivered by ILA members and strategic partners around the world, then we are confident that a significant transformation of global leadership practice, education/development, capacity and knowledge, can be achieved ‘for the greater good of individuals and communities worldwide’. This workshop is an integral part of the PRLED collaborative development process that involves ILA members and conference participants. The workshop will be facilitated by the PRLED team with the key aims: to introduce ILA members and conference participants to this invaluable project; to present the draft principles; to engage and solicit the views of workshop participants and ILA members; and to determine a rapid pathway to implementation around the world.
Excerpt from the draft PRLED:
Preamble –
The Principles for Responsible Leadership Education/Development (PRLED) encompass the full range of leadership education and development - in public/private/non-profit organizations and at the individual, group, organizational, and societal levels, across all sectors and cultures throughout the globe. PRLED serves as a guiding framework for the responsible education/development of formal and informal leaders of all ages in the whole variety of leadership learning contexts – corporate, community, executive coaching, degree programs, etc. The primary goal of PRLED is to influence leadership development educators and practitioners around the world to deliver effective and ethical leadership programs, and the ultimate goal is to help formal and informal leaders of all ages and in all contexts to be successful and responsible when leading others.
One ‘case in point’ –
Leadership is considered a fundamental human process; however, very few leadership education/development programs make any reference to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) or other human rights conventions. Therefore, one of the PRLED principles being proposed is that:
"Responsible Leadership Education/Development, at its Core, Seeks to Maintain the Human Rights of All"
Leadership development/education may be focused on a myriad of objectives - increasing the bottom line, personal development, or helping individuals and groups to be more successful when leading others – so the basic question that needs to be asked is leadership education/development for what? Fundamentally, responsible leadership practices and responsible leadership education/development should be designed and delivered to protect and foster the human rights of all. By clarifying this ultimate objective, PRLED and UDLR guide all leadership educators and development practitioners to focus their efforts on developing leaders and leadership teams who ultimately have human rights at the core of their leadership.
PRLED Workshop - outline and timing: [Total 90 minutes workshop session]
The Chair will introduce the session, and he will set the scene for PRLED in the context of the Good Leadership for All portfolio of projects (5 mins.).
Then, co-leaders of the PRLED project will present the principles, outlining the cases-in-point, the supporting scholarship for each principle, and the interlinking with the UDLR (20 mins.).
They will then outline the impact that PRLED will have in developing responsible leadership in the global business context (10 mins.)
We will then receive comments on the PRLED from the leadership education and European perspectives (10), and from the leadership development and U.S. perspectives(10 mins).
Thereafter, workshop participants will be organised into small groups to discuss PRLED and for them to contribute/report back their generative comments and ideas to the whole workshop (30 mins).
Finally, the Chair will summarise and close the PRLED workshop (5 mins.)
In preparation for the PRLED workshop, the PRLED team will publish the draft principles during the Summer of 2010, and these will form the basis of discussions involving ILA members via ILASpace. The refined PRLED version will be available to workshop participants and commentators a couple of weeks before the workshop is held in Boston.
Leadership 2.0 is about learning from our experiences – good and bad – and about transforming leadership. As the conference theme signifies “… it is time to shed mindsets, teachings, policies, and practices that are no longer useful or applicable to the next generation of leaders, or to the challenges that the world will face. It is time to investigate, research, study, teach, practice, and implement theories, strategies, and actions that are necessary to transform leadership knowledge and practice worldwide”. The 'Good Leadership for All' portfolio of projects and PRLED epitomize Leadership 2.0, and it is now time for ILA members and the global leadership community to take action by implementing PRLED, in order to transform global leadership education/development.
Scott Allen, John Carroll University
Bio: Dr. Scott J. Allen is an assistant professor at John Carroll University, where he teaches leadership and management skills. Scott is the co-author of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: A Guide for College Students (Jossey-Bass) and The Little Book of Leadership: 50 Tips to Accelerate Leader Potential in Others (Moonlight Publishing, 2009) with Mitch Kusy. In addition, Scott has articles published in the Journal of Leadership Educators, Advances in Developing Human Resources, Leadership Review, The OD Journal, SAM Advanced Management Journal, and Leadership Excellence. He recently completed a book chapter for the China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong entitled A Review on Leadership Education and Development Outside China and is a contributing author to the book Leadership: The Key Concepts. In 2006, Scott formed the Center for Leader Development (www.centerforleaderdevelopment.com), an organization created to provide resources, tools, and services for organizations seeking to build leadership capacity in their employees, members or students.
Jim 'Gus' Gustafson, Center for Values-Driven Leadership, Benedictine University
Bio: Dr. Gus Gustafson is currently the Leadership Scholar-in-Residence & Director of Executive Education Programs at Benedictine University's Center for Values-Driven Leadership. Prior to this appointment, Gus was responsible for Strategic Leadership Research & Organization Development at U.S. Cellular and has over twenty years of successful organization development, sales, marketing, operations, leadership development, channel management and general management experience in public and private companies and has won several awards for his work. He consults, speaks and writes on a variety of topics, including Socially Responsible Leadership, Appreciative Inquiry, Corporate Social Responsibility, Organizational & Team Effectiveness, and Servant-Leadership Development. Gus is an active member of and holds leadership positions in several professional organizations and serves as Executive Director of Hope's Servant-Leader Development Initiative.
Discussant - Leadership Development and U.S./Global PerspectivesEllen Van Velsor, Center for Creative Leadership
Bio: Ellen Van Velsor is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina. Ellen is co-editor of the Center for Creative Leadership’s Handbook of Leadership Development (1998; 2003, 2010), and co-author of Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach the Top of America’s Largest Corporations? (1987, 1991). She has authored numerous book chapters, articles and reports, including “Leadership Development as a Support to Ethical Action in Organisations” (Journal of Management Development, 2008), “A Complexity Perspective on Leadership Development” (Uhl-Bien & Marion, 2007), “Experiential Learning through Simulation” (Silberman, 2007), “Developing Organizational Capacity for Leadership” (Hooijberg, Hunt & Antonokis, 2007), and “Constructive-Developmental Coaching” (Ting & Scisco, 2006). Her current research focuses on leadership practices and processes related to corporate social responsibility in global organizations. Ellen has a B.A. in Sociology from SUNY Stony Brook, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Florida, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development at Duke University.Discussant - Leadership Education and U.K./European PerspectivesJonathan Gosling, Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter
Bio: Jonathan Gosling is Professor and Director of the Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter, UK. He is currently leading the worldwide launch of ‘the One World MBA’ (in partnership with WWF-International). He trained first as an anthropologist, and worked as a mediator and peace-maker in London and across Europe. He advises a number of international organizations on leadership issues, is currently researching the emergence of informal leadership, and writing about how anxiety affects these processes. He has published in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Leadership, Management Learning, Academy of Management Learning and Education. In 2009, he was Visiting Professor at INSEAD, France; Bled, Slovenia; and Lund, Sweden. Chair: Kuldip Reyatt, Strategic Visioning Partners
Bio: Kuldip Reyatt is Founder/Director of Strategic Visioning Partners and board member of the International Leadership Association. Kuldip works across sectors with board/strategic leaders to transform individual executive, leadership group, and organisation-wide performance. His prior career involves senior management in ‘Blue Chip’ corporations and international management consultancies, and board membership of a UK charity that provides pro bono consultancy to NGOs focused on alleviating human suffering and deprivation. A practitioner-scholar, qualified in Company Secretarial Practice, Finance, and Marketing, with an MBA from a leading UK business school, he is also at the final stages of his doctoral research into ‘Board and Strategic Leadership Influences on Strategic Visioning’. Practice and scholarship are focused on excellence in board leadership, strategic leadership practice and development, strategic visioning and transformation, all for the development of successful and sustainable organisational futures. Kuldip regularly presents at global leadership conferences, with several leadership articles and a book ‘Board and Strategic Leadership for the 21st Century’ in the pipeline, his work is already published in ‘Emergent Models of Global Leadership’, ‘Leadership: The Key Concepts’, and ‘Leadership Development outside China’. Return to complete program |
