If an organizations leadership development initiatives are well organized one may expect it to start off like this, with a personal invite: “Adriaan, we would like for you to attend a leadership program. It will be facilitated by such and such business school or consultants. It will consist of several modules that revolve around our […]
Setting Scene Leadership transitions (LTs) are inherent to and critical passages in the career of any leader, e.g., from one requisite Level of Work to another; from one type of position/ role to another; or from one organisational function to another. A LT can be defined as the taking up of and engagement with a […]
Today we want to share a very profound leadership principle! Two weeks ago on our weekly Leadership Master Class on CliffCentral we discussed that the task of great leaders is to create a believable positive momentum. Last week we discussed how to start this off with the “BIG leadership question” – one which leaders should […]
This article was recently published on Adriaan Groenewald’s Linkedin with a good response from interested readers. Hence our decision to republish this article on this interface for our users interest and benefit. Read through the article and then as a leadership barrier exercise, rate yourself objectively on a scale of 1 to 10 on the […]
At Leadership Platform we are privileged to meet many leaders in various fields. Some of these fine people are respected and followed by thousands and some by millions of people. Some are spiritual leaders and others head large business or civil organisations. All of them have in common the fact that they have to confront […]
Do current leadership development programs change people? Some of the vexing questions in leadership development programs of today are: How can we ensure it is relevant in today’s world? Will the programme adequately equip our leaders to deal with the onslaught of challenges and unique issues of our business? How do we change behaviour of […]
Brace yourself for a global Leadership Revolution! Masses of “followers” will challenge – even openly resist – their leaders on a global scale never experienced before, and in a more sophisticated and united, sometimes aggressive way, than ever before – calling them to account for how they lead and in many cases, why they don’t […]
Johann Coetzee wrote a chapter in the recently launched book “Leadership Perspectives from the Front Line” called “The Leadership Lament”. It starts like this: “Organisations are terrible places. They are terrible because well-intentioned people assemble there with good motives, and then become blemished by the inescapable toxicity organisations succeed in generating. If you swear at […]
The great leadership question First impressions Have you had the experience of walking into a company’s offices and within a few minutes you tangibly feel the organisational climate around you? Sometimes a positive feeling is triggered by an enthusiastic and competent receptionist and follow-up people we meet. Sometimes the feeling is one of a disjointed […]
As written and discussed previously, there is a global insurgence against almost any form of “establishment” – political, economic and social – you name it. It is in our nature as individuals that when some system or approach malfunctions we start asking questions, either to blame or to find solutions. This practice is projected on […]
