Process Leadership

Emerging leaders have the best people skills.Leaders are skilled at managing themselves. Relating well to others is now essential for managing resources and outcomes. Training, therefore, must be right where the action is: >on site. Nowhere else do they get the essential reality checks from workplace peers and community associates.

Gone are the days when effective leaders could go away to train and come back believing they knew everything they needed. Successful leadership training isn’t abstract; it is tied to real places, real people, real purpose. Effective leadership training also requires passion and commitment.

Gone are the days of top-down leadership. Leadership is now with groups who need consensus, need commitment to the task from all the stakeholders, and need opportunities that encourage genuinely productive discussion.

Highly effective applications for this leadership training model include:

  • Community rebuilding and recovery after traumatic events, such as bushfires, flooding, drought, and including displacement
  • Allied health services work with communities, such as improving child and maternal health, reducing diabetes, reducing substance misuse etc
  • Community-based Family Violence Prevention programs
  • Youth Leadership Training Programmes
  • Supporting migrant communities to adapt with confidence
  • Setting up organisational systems, structures and processes, including for businesses with a social focus
  • Team leadership development. Advantages of this leadership training model:
    • Training takes place on site, using actual real-time issues.
    • Ownership is put into the hands of those people having a direct investment in getting successful outcomes.
    • Uses and builds on existing social networks and ways of relating.
    • Captures both the formal and the informal ways of getting things done.
    • No-one feelsleft out; everyone feels useful and valued.
    • Builds on local ways of doing things.
    • Is an easy fit with the differing practices that can be found among communities and organisations.
    • Ensures people are confident they have all the skills necessary to make the changes.
    • Enables the achievement of their most desirable outcomes using their accepted ways of relating to each other
"To lead people, walk beside them... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honour and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!' "
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