Yvonne Sum

Learning Partnerships: Leadership Insights from your Tribes

This presentation provokes leaders to 'lose their minds to come to their senses'.
Command and control management will not work with today's
tribal mentality. Today, managers must lead. For the last decade as
I've worked with leaders in organisations, it has become apparent
that leadership that works in today's complex environment has
great similarities with leadership we've seen in the past in families,
tribes and society.
Tribal leadership is a different way of looking at the world. In the
context of the tribe, leaders need to understand two critical
elements of their leadership.
1. The essence of their leadership. This is what informs the
actions of tribal leaders. Their personal essence enables
authenticity to thrive.
2. The actions of their leadership. Essence is nothing without
action. Tribal leaders actively work to ensure their actions
enable their followers to achieve great outcomes and to
grow to their full potential.
When these two elements are present, good leadership is possible.
And when these two elements are connected by learning
partnerships, great leadership is possible.
It is also about being inspirational: Courage and adaptability of the leader to energise
others to step up towards actualising the common vision through
learning partnerships, self re?ection and leveraging the experience
and knowledge in the greater group to re-integrate self and
learning
Making it happen means understanding the ?7 R's? of Leadership Action: How
functional work tribes are similar to happy families through:
Role modelling
Respect
Rules
Routine
Review & Re?ect
Reorganise
Running it - Response-ability