Core Elements and Related Themes of Generative Leadership
Enhancing your leadership skills positively impacts you, your colleagues, and your organization. Generative leadership is a development strategy that focuses on co-creating leadership practice within and across organizations. Generative leadership concentrates directly on individual, team, and organizational behaviors using actionable steps.
After reading Chapter 5 in Managing and Leading Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework for Success (Dann, 2022), reflect on how individuals’ behaviors lead to various actions or inaction by individuals, teams, and organizations. Organize your thoughts using the six core elements and seven related themes of generative leadership. Then, develop an original response to the following question:
As a leader, which of the six core elements and seven related themes of generative leadership resonates the most with you and why? Provide two detailed examples to support your response.
Leadership Development in Action
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Individuals' behaviors are compelled by feelings and thoughts that offer insights into individuals' psyches that reveal various issues such as values and attitudes. Psychological characteristics design human behaviors since the personality type is different from one person to another leading to different actions.
Individual's behavior can contribute to various actions or inaction by individuals, teams, and organizations. For instance, if individuals know what they are expected of, they engage in leadership behavior that will force the team members and organization to go beyond the minimum. Besides, if an individual embraces good habits of communicating and giving positive feedback, it will help the team work together as a group. As a result, with effective communication and teamwork, an organization maintains a positive work setting (Leonard, 2019). Also, an individual's perceived need to work can lead to actions or inactions. The company's success, for example, depends on the employees' perception t...