"I have learned that I can engage people more completely when I treat them as complete people, with a bigger view than my immediate need for their work. ... in the end all leadership is about engagement."
Stookey CW. Keep Your People in the Boat. Workforce Engagement Lessons from the Sea. Alia Press, Halifax, NS, 2011.
The most highly skilled facilitators I've encountered “led
from behind.” It was almost as if they weren't there, while we in the audience spontaneously discovered our own hidden, dormant skills and capacities. Solution-focused therapy describes this as “collaborative identification & amplification
of client strengths.”
Since many of us grew up under authoritarian, top-down forms of parenting, education and leadership, we're prone to repeat this corrosive style ourselves.
It takes time and practice to acquire new parenting, educational and leadership skills, but these promise so much greater efficiency and higher quality of life for all us.
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