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| © 2010 Idea Builders Initiative Registered Nigerian Non-Government Organisation CAC/IT/NO 31425 |
This session explored the stories that inform a leader's life and style, including family legacies, cultural
influences, and personal beliefs and predispositions. Storytelling, as a pedagogical tool, helps participants
improve their leadership capacity, develop insight and foster growth.
Leadership Stories not only enhances leadership styles; it also changes lives distilling unique leadership traits,
predispositions and patterns, reinforces emotional intelligence (or "how to change what isn't working'") Identifies
clues embedded in your life story that reveal your path and will help participants to get a sense of the landscape
and stages of authentic leadership, make meaning and move on.
The objectives of this session, designed for emerging leaders, were: (i) to help participants clarify their leadership
stories and to teach them how to share leadership experiences that influence organizational culture; (ii) to
facilitate development of participants’ social capacity for leadership; and (iii) to assist participants in applying
leadership theory to their experiences.
At the end of this mentoring experience, participants were better able to:
• Make decisions based on objective information rather than stories they make-up about "what is"
• "Think outside the box" when it comes to organizational challenges
• Remove personal issues from work tasks to maximize productivity
• Communicate more effectively - and compassionately
• Use personal strengths and perspectives to drive bottom-line results
• Clearly see, and navigate, the political landscape at work
• Discharge personal triggers that get in the way of organizational goals
• Use personal narrative to influence coaching opportunities
influences, and personal beliefs and predispositions. Storytelling, as a pedagogical tool, helps participants
improve their leadership capacity, develop insight and foster growth.
Leadership Stories not only enhances leadership styles; it also changes lives distilling unique leadership traits,
predispositions and patterns, reinforces emotional intelligence (or "how to change what isn't working'") Identifies
clues embedded in your life story that reveal your path and will help participants to get a sense of the landscape
and stages of authentic leadership, make meaning and move on.
The objectives of this session, designed for emerging leaders, were: (i) to help participants clarify their leadership
stories and to teach them how to share leadership experiences that influence organizational culture; (ii) to
facilitate development of participants’ social capacity for leadership; and (iii) to assist participants in applying
leadership theory to their experiences.
At the end of this mentoring experience, participants were better able to:
• Make decisions based on objective information rather than stories they make-up about "what is"
• "Think outside the box" when it comes to organizational challenges
• Remove personal issues from work tasks to maximize productivity
• Communicate more effectively - and compassionately
• Use personal strengths and perspectives to drive bottom-line results
• Clearly see, and navigate, the political landscape at work
• Discharge personal triggers that get in the way of organizational goals
• Use personal narrative to influence coaching opportunities
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