The Thriving Leader
The Thriving Leader was the focus for my MSc studies completed in 2006. Here I have summarised the background and assumptions of my project, and provide more detailed information exploring how individual leaders thrive in organisations.
Background to the Thriving Leader
To sustain an organisation’s capacity to grow and change, it is fundamental that individual leaders grow and change, or in the language of my MSc project, that they ‘thrive’. Through my research I have expanded the meaning of thriving from different theoretical and practical perspectives, drawing on the experiences of practising leaders and managers, to produce a rich and dynamic concept.
I am now developing the idea of the ‘thriving life-cycle’, which shows that not only do individuals experience thriving and non-thriving, but that there is also an intermediate stage where the individual can re-evaluate, re-focus, and re-energise. From the thriving life-cycle we can devise a series of practical strategies for individual thriving.
Related Files
The Thriving Leader – power point presentation
- The Thriving Leader – a dynamic leadership model
Paper presented at International Summer Academy on "Educational Leadership", Meissen, Germany, 2007 – Based on a research project by Lesley Greenaway MSc - The Thriving Leader - outline workshop