One of my favorite learning enviroments for young leaders are events (camps, outreach events, corporate gatherings, etc.). What a great enviroment where planning, budgeting, contingencies, emergencies, ranks of people contributing and other variables come together in a place of heightened expectation for delivery. It is in this enviroment where great “pressure learning” can take place between a Leader and their Apprentices. In the graphic shown here, the Leader is standing in a position of support to the their Apprentice who is now doing “live leadership”. From this position the Leader can:
- coach
- encourage
- challenge
- warn
- process think together what next steps
- see things coming
- rebuke or correct
- step-in [only in case of an emergency]
- easily step back
- walk away [to let the Apprentice take on the full scale nature of the leadership challenge]
Over the next year I will be writing and developing more extensively concepts of Leadership Development using an apprenticeship model.
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