{"id":1710,"date":"2007-09-03T08:43:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T07:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/progmanager.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/03\/leaders-teachers-do-not-transform-or-motivate-people\/"},"modified":"2007-09-03T08:43:31","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T07:43:31","slug":"leaders-teachers-do-not-transform-or-motivate-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2007\/09\/03\/leaders-teachers-do-not-transform-or-motivate-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders-Teachers Do Not ‘Transform’ or ‘Motivate’ People!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instead leaders-mentors-teachers:<\/p>\n

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  1. Provide a context which is marked by;<\/li>\n
  2. Access to a luxuriant portfolio of meaningful opportunities (projects) which;<\/li>\n
  3. Allow people to fully (and safely, mostly – caveat: “they” don’t engage unless they’re “mad about something”) express their innate curiosity and;<\/li>\n
  4. Engage in a vigorous discovery voyage (alone and in small teams, assisted by an extensive self-constructed network) by which those people;<\/li>\n
  5. Go to create places they (and their mentors-leaders-teachers)had never dreamed existed – and then the leaders-mentors-teachers;<\/li>\n
  6. Applaud like hell, stage “photo ops” and ring the church bells a 100 times to commemorate the bravery of their ‘followers’ explorations!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This according to Tom Peters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Wow! <\/font><\/h1>\n

    Just imagine if your leadership were able to provide this kind of context for people to do great work in.<\/p>\n

    What might it mean for the impact of your team?<\/p>\n

    What opportunities do you have to DELEGATE!<\/p>\n

    Who is ‘mad enough’ about the opportunity to really engage?<\/p>\n

    How can you support them on their journey to create something new?<\/p>\n

    How well do you celebrate success – and heroic failure?<\/p>\n