Leadership Presence: Character Development as the Choreography of Body-Mind

Jon Chapman and Pete Mann

Chapter 6 in Leadership Learning, 2008, pp 111-130 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract So said Abraham Lincoln drawing on his character at a time then of unprecedented global complexity, institutional discontinuity and socio-economic transition. In this chapter we explore the impact of current thinking about the development of character on leadership development. We look at the role of personal and interpersonal dynamics in notions of leadership, and the way in which our current understanding of the nature of leadership is calling into question some preconceptions about how leadership development is best achieved. In particular we focus on the conjunction of ideas in experiential psychology and leadership thinking around notions of presence and being ‘in the moment’ as both ways of learning and of leading. This is explored through the perspective of a group of leadership development consultants (‘practitioners’) in the UK using an experiential, psychodynamic technique not used before in UK organisations. Some of them, trained previously in other psychotherapeutic schools, were especially challenged to adapt their existing skills to the new ‘psychomotor’ approach (Mann, 2005). Finally, we examine the implications of this new perspective for the concept of leadership itself, for the practice of leadership development in organisations and for the selection and evaluation of those engaged in the development of leaders.

Keywords: Leadership Development; Leadership Lesson; Leadership Development Programme; Leadership Learn; Leadership Developer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230584075_7

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