Gareth Jones Masterclass

GARETH JONES
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Overview

The global economic recession has raised fundamental issues about leadership. Organisations that are best placed as we move out of recession will be ones that take leadership and leadership development very seriously. As employees become more sceptical and questioning of formal authority, executives everywhere must ask themselves that most difficult question “Why Should Anyone Be Led By You?

Gareth Jones
Gareth research interests are in organisational design, culture, leadership and change. He has published several books, including “The Character of a Corporation: How Your Culture Can Make or Break Your Business” co-authored with Rob Goffee and “Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?”, also with Rob Goffee.  This latest leadership title was based on an article of the same name which won the prestigious McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard Business Review in 2001.  The theme of authenticity was developed in another HBR article, “Managing Authenticity” which appeared in the December 2005 issue.  A recent HBR article, “Leading Clever People”  deals with the special challenges of leading in the knowledge economy.  This was runner-up for the 2008 McKinsey Award. Gareth’s latest book “Clever; leading your smartest, most creative people”, also co-authored with Rob Goffee and published by HBSP, deals with the peculiar challenges of leading individuals and teams with the capacity to create disproportionate amounts of value, many of whom are to be found in the knowledge economy. 

The masterclass covers

The day will be organised around presentations, discussions and small group work. In this masterclass participants will explore the following themes;
• Understanding their followers needs.
• Identifying their own leadership attributes and their allowable weaknesses.
• Improving their ability to communicate with passion.
• Learning how to read and shape context.
• Practicing how to get close and how to be distant. 
• Discovering their own authentic leadership story.

Benefits
Executives will come away with an understanding of the role of management and leadership development, as well as the know how and tools for successful leadership in the 21st Century 

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