Week 2: Authentic leadership

Leadership portfolio

Refer Hancine’s slides…. Description vs Analysis vs Evaluation

Competency criteria for leadership portfolio, including guidance on how to critically analyze and reflectively evaluate

Headings/tags to use:

• Authentic Value
• Leadership and Business Models to support Authentic Value
• Personal and professional capability to lead positive change in complex and changing work environments
• Culturally sustainable and community led approaches to support change for good

Pre-work

Simon Sinek ‘How great leaders inspire action’

Discovering Your Authentic Leadership by Bill George, Peter Sims, Andrew N. McLean, and Diana Mayer

Annie Ualesi - Authentic leadership 

Grandparents founded first Samoan church in NZ – describes herself as brought up by leaders to be a leader

• Key message – get clear on your purpose.
• Deep reflective practice is critical. Can use CRA framework 
• Know your own values, your long-term vision so you can hold your path through the pressures of day to day
• Show vulnerability, create safety “Make it fun and easy to have a go”
• Be brave and courageous “You’re often going to be the only one, or the first one, pushing for change”
• Surround yourself with the right people; to support you and call out your blind spots

My reflections

Authentic leadership isn’t a model, it’s about being clear who you are and what you’re here for. It’s about sitting comfortably with tension/paradox e.g., strategy vs execution, knowing vs not knowing, self reflection vs serving others

My reflections

As a ‘transformation’ team, are we operating at the top of the model (structural change) or the bottom (transformative change)? 
As a leader, how can I help my team make the shift down? How do we create a system than enables rather than holds complex problems in place?