Quiet Leadership – Leadership In The Smallest Of Actions

An exploration of humility, kindness, fairness, and grace, in our leadership

What you’ll learn
We will learn how to view the Organisation as an Ecosystem, and consider how we travel through it
We will explore how each of us, through the smallest of actions, both enhance and degrade this system
We will look at our own reflection, to understand how to lead with humility, by learning about our shadows
We will explore how Kindness and Fairness act as Social Currencies, and the ways we earn and spend them, along with the impacts of this
We will consider how we change – how we leave things behind and help others to move forwards too

Requirements
There are no requirements or prerequisites for this work. Quiet Leadership is for everyone: it’s an exploration of leadership in the very smallest of actions.
This course will not teach you how to be a Quiet Leader, but rather will help you find your own answers

Description
This course forms a guided reflective journey into our own leadership, considering four main aspects of how we lead: humility, kindness, fairness, and grace.This is an exploration of leadership in the smallest of things: our mindset, our words and our actions, in every single day.It’s not about a grand aspiration, about formal objectives, or big development programmes.It’s not about the formal power you have been given, your ability to influence at scale, or the varied ways you exert control.It’s not about ‘one’ way of leading, but rather about a multitude of ways, and specifically about how you find ‘your’ way.Quiet Leadership is about the ways we are with each other in every moment, and how those varied ‘ways’ of being come together to give us the thing we call culture today.It’s a practice that recognises that all cultures have edges, all communities have boundaries, and our impact is felt more in the shadows than in the light that we face.Quiet Leadership is a reflective practice, not to see the version of ourselves that we already know, but, rather, to discover ourselves in how others see us.Leadership in our reflection; leadership in our shadow. Leadership in our impact, through every action every day.Presented by Julian Stodd, author of the Social Leadership Handbook, this is gentle work, providing a series of eight questions for us to consider, together.

Overview
Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome – Video

Lecture 2 Everyone is Welcome in this Space

Lecture 3 The Organisation as Ecosystem

Lecture 4 The Organisation as Ecosystem – Video

Lecture 5 A journey of 10,000 steps?

Lecture 6 Nobody Alone

Lecture 7 The Four Seasons of Quiet Leadership

Lecture 8 Our Journey into the Landscape of Quiet Leadership – Your Guide

Section 2: Humility

Lecture 9 Humility – The Seed

Lecture 10 Humility – Video

Lecture 11 The Shadows That We Cast

Lecture 12 Reflection – Shadow – Impact

Lecture 13 Intention and Action

Lecture 14 Quiet Leadership Questions

Lecture 15 Question 1: What Shadow Do You Cast?

Lecture 16 The Things We Give – The Things We Take Away

Lecture 17 Every Day

Lecture 18 What our Research says about Humility

Lecture 19 Reflection on Humility – Video

Section 3: Kindness

Lecture 20 Kindness

Lecture 21 Kindness – Video

Lecture 22 Battered by the Storms

Lecture 23 Friction on the System

Lecture 24 Intent or Impact?

Lecture 25 Where are we kindest?

Lecture 26 The Intention of Kindness – video

Lecture 27 Research Perspectives on Kindness

Lecture 28 Every Action

Lecture 29 Reflection on Kindness – Video

Section 4: Fairness

Lecture 30 Fairness – Video

Lecture 31 As we find Strength

Lecture 32 How do we Experience Fairness?

Lecture 33 How is Fairness Split?

Lecture 34 Reaching Down

Lecture 35 To Leave with Less

Lecture 36 Research Perspectives on Fairness

Lecture 37 Reflection on Fairness – Video

Section 5: Grace

Lecture 38 The Falling Leaves – Video

Lecture 39 The Breeze

Lecture 40 Weathering the Winter Storms

Lecture 41 The Forest Grows From The Floor

Lecture 42 An Endless Weight

Lecture 43 Leaving with Less

Lecture 44 What The Research Says About Grace

Lecture 45 Reflection on Grace

Section 6: Making Your Journey

Lecture 46 Quiet Leadership

Lecture 47 Walking Through The Forest

Lecture 48 Further Reading

Lecture 49 An Invitation to join a Quiet Leadership Live journey

Lecture 50 A Final Reflection on Quiet Leadership – Video

This course is for leaders who wish act in service of their community and team. It is a guided, reflective journey where we explore humility, kindness, fairness, and the gracefulness of our actions – our willingness to leave things behind.