I etterkant av motiveringskurset vi har for studentledere ønsket enkelte seg litt teoretisk påfyll. Her er et par anbefalte artikler:
- Transformations of Leadership: Går gjennom en modell for utviklingstrinn, noe som er nyttig å ha i bakhodet når du skal motivere andre. Spesielt interessant når man må forholde seg til andre ledere i en organisasjon. Relativt lettlest.
- Action Inquiry: De to første kapitlene i en bok om kommunikasjonsmåten vi introduserte for dere (Framing, Illustrating, Advocating, Inquiry). Nyttig å bruke når man skal lede andre, samt generelt. Relativt lettlest.
Hvis man ønsker å gå litt dypere inn i materien har Jonathan skrevet en liste over bøker som han mener er verdt å ta en titt på. Jeg vil personlig anbefale Heifitz’ “Leadership without easy answers” og “Leadership Agility”, men ta forbehold om at smak og behag varierer.
Vi har også lagt ut noen mer akademiske artikler om motivasjon og ledelse:
- What’s Integral About Leadership: Vitenskapelig artikkel som gir en viss oversikt over feltet ledelse, samt nevner dette med utviklingstrinn. Relativt akademisk i formen.
- Small World: En samling korte tekster om ulike ledelse. Ikke særlig akademisk, men lettlest.
I tillegg kommer tre artikler om motivasjon: to akademiske (“Motivation to Inspiration” og “Motivating peak performance“) og en noe mindre akademisk (“Motivation to Inspiration“).
(Vi beklager at flere av filene er veldig store, men valgte å prioritere lesbarhet)
Last Wednesday CTL had the honour of providing the contents for a seminar arranged by Samarbeidsforumet, and personally I think it was a success!
Some 60+ students with different leadership-positions came, and we had a very interesting couple of hours. It was very motivating to see so many people interested in becoming better leaders, and to see a genuine interest in taking their organizations to new heights.
The main topics were:
- Fostering common understanding of purpose, principles and tasks
- Motivating others to work towards common goals
- and last, but not least: how to take care of yourself.
Before getting a great tapas-dinner with (a lot of) beer, everybody got a small task to do after the seminar, so they could try to use some of what they had discussed during the seminar.
Thanks to everybody who came, and to Samarbeidsforumet.
PS: The next ordinary seminar is at Tuesday 31.03 at 16.15, in R30 at Gløshaugen.
In case you would like to learn more about transformational leadership, I just uploaded a list of recommended readings.
Som leder har du mange utfordringer – men har du en coach?
Hvis du er student ved NTNU og i en leder- eller mellomlederstilling kan du få to gratis timer hos en personlig coach på et tidspunkt som passer deg. Coachingen arrangeres av masterstudenter i Rådgiving på NTNU (alle underlagt taushetsplikt).
Coaching gir deg en unik mulighet til:
- Bevisstgjøring
- Utvikling
- Innsikt og nye perspektiver
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
Coachingen arrangeres av masterstudenter i Rådgiving på NTNU, og de har taushetsplikt.
Ble du nysgjerrig? Ta kontakt via e-post med: coachingntnu alfakrøll gmail.com
So, the new blog is up and running. Reguler WordPress was to hard to maintain for us, and we’re going witht the simpler wordpress.com.
What is the differences between leadership and management? One way to see it – and this is a much debated topic – is that management is about careful planning and strict implementation of these plans; it’s about hiring the right people, setting up budgets and distributing responsibility. Leadership on the other hand is about alignment; getting everyone to face in the same direction, inspiring them and pulling towards the same goal. Because of this, leadership is more important when an organization is forced to change.
While the differences between «leadership» and «management» is at best disputed in English, the situation is even worse in Norwegian. To my knowledge, we have no separate words for leadership and management in Norwegian (although the words «leder» and «sjef» carry different meanings that lean towards «leader and manager, respectively). For instance, NTNU teaches a subject with the Norwegian name «endringsledelse», which is similar to the Norwegian translation of «Transformational Leadership». Perhaps surprisingly, the english title of the subject does not even include the word «leadership», but «management». Interesteingly, while management is often tought in business schools, most believe leadership is learned by supported/guided* doing. Thus the Norwegian business school student might know a lot about management while (unknowingly) have poor skills in «ledelse» because he/she knows very little about leadership.
Because management and leadership are different things, the challenge of those seeking a «lederstilling» should know that their challenges will broadly fall into two categories, not one. Being aware of semantics will probably not solve any problems, but it might help noticing what kind of tool will be needed to get the job done.
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* Incidentally, this is why you should consider showing up at the CTL seminars every other Tuesday if you are already in a leadership position and would like to get even better at leading 
PS: There is probably an argument to be made as to why «ledelse» means both leadership and management in Norweigan (perhaps something to do with The Jantelov or our less mercantile tradition than the US?), but I will leave that speculation to others.
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