A new perspective: Developmental Leadership

How important "Developmental Leadership" in context of key tasks of leadership is, is known to experienced managers at least since the concept "Situational Leadership" of Hershey and Blanchard of 1969 (whereas there are interestingely enough trainers and coaches who pass this off as "new"). The quality of this concept has not lost anything of its basic value and practicability and can - with good reason - be seen as a milestone of developmental leadership. As a customer of Reflect you will know that - for a long time - we consider conditioning the own employees to the actual and future challenges of the company as one of the main tasks of leadership. 

Within the last few years, the concept "Developmental Leadership" has emerged, which has not caught too much attention so far, however. Nevertheless, in future, this could change. In their publication"Developmental Leadership: A new perspective for human resource development" the experts Gilley, Shelton & Gilley (2011) proclaim, how - by means of developmental leading of employees - creativity and innovative energy can be released. Similar to Hersey / Blanchard, they assume four roles: learning facilitator, motivator, performance coach, servant leader. If you have any further interest in this topic please do not hesitate to contact us!