TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Lessons from Shakespeare's The Tempest

Lessons from the Myth:

Act 1- Creating the Climate

  • Preparing the ‘storm’
  • Identifying the individual elements of change: physical, emotional, mental and inspirational
  • Engaging the team and finding the ‘island’ where the change can be managed

Act 2 – Managing Reactions To Change

  • Learning to ‘forsee danger’ – managing the threats to successful change
  • Assessing and managing reactions to change

Act 3 – Sustaining Momentum

  • ‘Making labours pleasures’- aligning service and commitment
  • Confronting the ‘men of sin’ – dealing with blockers

Act 4 – Embedding the New

  • Blessing the new – appreciative inquiry and symbolic recognition
  • Painting the big picture – the overarching purpose

Act 5 – Integration

  • Reconciliation – moving from resentment to co-operation
  • Redefining the story – who are we now? – and the onward journey

**This course is currently only available in its 1 Day format.