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Ashridge recently published a study in which senior business leaders were interviewed to understand what kinds of experiences had shaped their leadership practices. The particular focus was on responsible leadership, which has been gaining much more attention in recent years.
Through the interviews, several key themes repeatedly emerged as having been influential in the development of senior leaders' responsible leadership behaviour:
First-hand experiences of pressing social challenges, relationships with people experiencing them and with the people and organisations working effectively to help address them.Early career experience in organisations with a strongly-held culture and values of responsible and sustainable business.Exposure to senior leaders with a passion for this kind of business leadership who act as role-models or mentors.Support to reflect on and make sense of these kinds of experiences and how to act on them in business leadership roles.
The participants in this research had all taken part in Business in the Community's Seeiing is Believing program - an initiative in which senior leaders learn first-hand about issues such as alcoholism, homelessness, ex-offenders, youth unemployment and the low carbon economy by going out as a group and meeting people who are affected by these issues, subsequently reflecng on the experience and then reporting on the experience and what it means to the Prince of Wales.
Via Matthew Farmer, David Hain
The report highlights how important these immersive kinds of engagement are for the development of responsible leadership, responsible organizations and a responsible and healthy society.
The combination of a high-impact emotionally-engaging experience with people from very different backgrounds combined with elevated sensemaking provided by the visit's facilitators and leaders is very powerful.
Matthew
Emerging World
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The report highlightls how important these immersive kinds of engagement are for the development of responsible leadership, responsible organizations and a responsible and healthy society.
The combination of a high-impact emotionally-engaging experience with people from very different backgrounds combined with elevated sensemaking provided by the visit's facilitators and leaders is very powerful.
Matthew
Emerging World
The report highlightls how important these immersive kinds of engagement are for the development of responsible leadership, responsible organizations and a responsible and healthy society.
The combination of a high-impact emotionally-engaging experience with people from very different backgrounds combined with elevated sensemaking provided by the visit's facilitators and leaders is very powerful.
Matthew
Emerging World