‘Meeting’ in the In-Between, Following-Leading Workshops March

We have a nice group of participants in our online workshops series on Following-Leading-Managing-Supervising, from NZ, Aus, Portugal, Germany, USA and Romania. So, lots of interesting learning discussion on how we view things from different cultures. The series will be facilitated by Dr Ashhurst and Dr Long.

The workshops are planned for 4, 11, 18 and 25 March at 7.30pm Canberra time. In this way we help those on the other side of the world get on line at a reasonable time. Each session will run for 90 minutes.

The workshops are not set like the traditional approaches to leadership and management that look at the attributes of leaders or managers. Indeed, in SPoR, we know that everything happens in the in-between, in the hyphen that exists between following-leading. It is what happens in that ‘meeting’ that matters most. What happens in the i-thou?

The workshop structure will be as follows:

Session 1. Exploring the problems of current approaches.

The funnel, the hero and the nature of power.

Is there an ethic of following-leading?

What doesn’t work? What works?

Session 2. The Following-Leading Dynamic

What is it? How does it Work? What are its challenges?

What is mutuality? Why do worldviews matter?

What is ‘meeting’?

A model for engagement

Session 3. Case studies

Funnel Pty Ltd.

Characteristics, models, myths.

Examples – Hot desking, ISO 45003 etc

Session 4. Bubbles and sub-cultures

Examples of where the Folowing-Leading dynamic works

Mondi, Galilee, etc

Challenges: Sustainability, vision, methodology/methods

Whatever happens between people is known as the ‘Zone of Reciprocal Relationship’ (ZRR). A great deal happens in this ‘zone’ that is unconscious, unspoken and dynamic yet, we can know and feel what happens through skilled perceptions in listening, linguistics of Critical Discourse Analysis. The tension of what happens in that zone is represented visually as follows:

Rather than talking about the attributes of the leader, manager or supervisor, in SPoR, we talking much more about what happens in the zone and, what each contributor brings to that zone. The zone is s zone of Socialitie.

Socialitie is the focus of Social Psychology.

The zone can be represented as follows.

All of this is discussed in the text for the workshops and free download: Following-Leading in Risk, A Humanising Dynamic (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/following-leading-risk/).

Dr Ashhurst and Dr Long are currently working on a second edition of their book.

If you are interested in this series of online workshops, you can register here: admin@spor.com.au

The cost is $400.

Or here: https://spor.com.au/leading-managing-supervising-workshops/

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PhD., MEd., MOH., BEd., BTh., Dip T., Dip Min., Cert IV TAA, MRMIA Rob is the founder of Human Dymensions and has extensive experience, qualifications and expertise across a range of sectors including government, education, corporate, industry and community sectors over 30 years. Rob has worked at all levels of the education and training sector including serving on various post graduate executive, post graduate supervision, post graduate course design and implementation programs.