stop making sense (for others). on storytelling & shared leadership

STORYTELLING & Shared

LEADERSHIP

power, perversion & potential

Stop making sense (for others)

Talk @ Dare Festival, Belgium, Dec 10th 2014

Hans Donckers – The Future Leadership Initiative

ego states

DISCOVER: Collecting your story building blocks

DESIGN: Writing inspiring and convincing stories

DELIVER: Telling your stories with impact

Positive energy/feeling+

-Negative energy/feeling

Discovering your story building blocks

What are the underlying drivers and values?What’s your mission? What could be a title for your story?

EXERCISE

Share in pairs.Did you feel inspired?

How/where would you use your own story?

The Identity Story Template

The story of who you are is usually a prelude to some other communication – your main communication.

E.g. proposing a change, announcing a decision, marketing or selling a product.

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BUT …

THE HERO LEADER SYNDROME

BUT …

Contr’un = anti-one

Structure Culture Labour HR

Bureaucracy • Specialisation• Seperation

doing-thinking• Central decision

making

• Hierarchical• Position = status• Focus on power

• Routine• Task separation

• Classical HR practices & processes

Flexible organization

• Process oriented• Decentralisation:

reconnect doing-thinking

• Process = leading• Focus on

competence• Results

orientation

• Broad tasks• Employability• Team work

• Classical HR practices & processes

Networked organization

• Leadership = shared

• Complete decentralisation

• Temporarynetworks

• Customer and people focussed

• Employee = business partner

• Involvement• Participation• Creativity• Variation• People =

continuity

• Organization design & development

• Culture

Kuipers et al (2010)

Leadership. To share or not to share?

QUESTION

Does your own story fit your org’s story?

Are you invited to co-write this story?

Do you claim the mandate?

EXPERIMENT

WHICH SHARED STORIES CAN WE WRITE

HERE AND NOW?

1. Where do we come from?2. Where shall we go together?3. How will we get there?4. Transition ritual…5. Storydoing

Shared story, shared leadership

© StoryDoing.com

Thanks!

Hans Donckers / The Future Leadership Initiative / Antwerp Management School

hans.donckers@uantwerpen.be