The Collegial Leadership Model: Six Basic Elements for Agile Organisational Development

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A PROFESSIONAL SYSTEMIC-INTEGRAL ATTITUDE

We understand attitude as being a specific inner breakpoint consisting of values, insights, thought patterns and emotional patterns in a concrete context that guides our behaviour. An attitude is therefore not merely a conviction or personal bias - it is observable in the individual life process, i.e. in a person’s actions, objectives, statements and judgements. It is a bridge between internalised theory and emotional patterns to practice and ability. Attitudes can be learned and are therefore also part of professional personality development in a work context.

THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CLIENT

IN THE CONTEXT OF A PROFESSIONAL ATTITUDE

As a rule, the client and the members of the organisation do not yet have the desired attitude: if they did, they would not need our support as learning guide or consultants. A new attitude is therefore not the prerequisite for agile organisational development but its outcome. The client and it’s organisational members may have knowledge of agile and collegial values and possibly also of individual experiences. However, they do not usually yet have the attitude in the shape of certain values, insights, thought and feeling patterns which would give the stakeholders support and safety in their