COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP

Lessons from Shakespeare's Macbeth

Participants are introduced to key learnings from the story and choose the challenges they wish to explore further. These, typically, are drawn from the following:

ACT 1 - Ambition and Expectation

  • Distinguishing between driven, repressed and appropriate Ambition
  • Managing expectation - identifying the voices that support and undermine us .

ACT 2 - Managing Inflation in Leadership

  • Identifying leadership gifts and derailers
  • Dealing with power
  • 'Warrior' exercise - exploring positive and negative potentials in a competitive and target-loaded environment's

ACT 3 - Responses to 'Tyranny'

  • Recognising complicit behaviours
  • Strategies for dealing with 'tyranny'

ACT 4 - Developing Quiet Leaders

  • Recognising how and when to pick your battles
  • Engendering trust and commitment
  • Creating space for integrity and authenticity

ACT 5 - Stewardship

  • Stepping into generativity
  • Three ways to wholeness