Developing Leaders For Real

Harry Gray has worked in education throughout his career at all levels. He helped establish education management as a sub-discipline and has been a consultant in all sectors including industry and the third sector. He is CSO of CANAL Ltd working to develop the labour market through retired people.Anne Gimson is CEO of Strategic Developments (Int) Limited and has supported organisational leaders in their development through Self Managed Learning programmes and individual/team coaching for nearly 30 years. Working cross-culturally in some of the world’s largest businesses, she is also Editor-in-Chief, ‘Development & Learning in Organizations – an international journal’.Ian Cunningham is the founder of Self Managed Learning (SML) College in Brighton. Ian is also a:- Dancer (member of Three Score Dance Company since 2011); Welder (City and Guilds qualified); Organisation Development consultant (for 40 years); Writer (8 books and over 100 other publications); Company Director.

• Foreword; Peter Honey Chapter 1. Developing Leaders: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Anne Gimson, Harry Gray, and Ian Cunningham Chapter 2. Leadership : A Function of Organisations as Complex Systems; Harry Gray Chapter 3. Self Managing Leaders: Lessons in Learning; Ian Cunningham Part 1 – Contexts for Leadership Development Chapter 4. Leadership Development: Examples from Central and Eastern Europe; Magdolna Csath Chapter 5. Learning Leadership in a Multi-cultural Country: South Africa; Chris Van Wyk Chapter 6. Leadership Development Across the Divides: from Triple Helix to Converging Spheres; Tony Eccles Chapter 7. Leadership Development in Higher Education Contexts: Exploring the Efficacy of Widely-used Approaches; Brian Findsen Chapter 8. Leadership Development Lessons from India: Contextual Enablers within Organisations; Shilpa Kabra Maheshwari Chapter 9. Learning in Groups: Working with Difference; Michael Reynolds Part 2 – Programmes, Processes & Frames for Leadership Development Chapter 10. Holistic and Strategic Leadership Development: The Impact of Self Managed Learning; Anne Gimson Chapter 11. Service Leadership Development: Service-learning at a Hong Kong University; Maureen Yin-Lee Chan and Robin Snell Chapter 12. Space, Place and Time: How Consideration of these Factors Impact Leadership Development Design and Practice; Arthur TurnerChapter 13. Organisations as Soap-opera: Leading Change and Continuity through Narrative-based OD; Anne Murphy and Jonathan Gosling Chapter 14. Treading the Noble Eightfold Path: a Leadership Development Strategy in a VUCA World; Joan Marques Chapter 15. The Role of Coaching and Mentoring : Addressing the Leadership Deficit; David Clutterbuck Chapter 16. Where next for Leadership Development?: Problems, Potential and Possibilities; Ian Cunnigham, Anne Gimson, and Harry Gray

Over the last few years, it has become increasingly clear to most providers, prescribers and consumers of leadership development programs that too often, the impact of these programs is much less significant and durable than the world rightfully expects from them. [Developing Leaders for Real] examines the causes of this situation and proposes a number of excellent and diverse principles and practices that will help improve it. It is an essential read for anyone – academic or practitioner – interested in making leadership development the game changer that the world needs it to be if we are to tackle the world’s problems more effectively.