Abstract
We are curious as to how leaders can become more understanding and reflexive (Cunliffe 2004; Hibbert & Cunliffe 2015) of their own practice and how this might be facilitated in meaningful ways. How leaders do their job is increasingly important and difficult because our world is becoming more uncertain and erratic. Yet through this, leaders need to be able to understand, involve others and make reasoned choices, often with incomplete knowledge. It is within this challenge that we explore practice based learning (PBL), by this we mean developing the ability to understand, involve others and make reasoned choices, often with incomplete and hazy knowledge. In this sense, practice development is a social process. This paper presents an agenda for research into PBL . The insights generated will influence further learning about leadership as an iterative process of research. We briefly consider the social and individual nature of such learning, making clear that both are a reflection of the other. Within an action research methodology we seek to use a blend of action learning and story (Gabriel 2000) to understand and apply learning in the challenging contexts leaders find themselves in.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | BUILDING AND SUSTAINING HIGH PERFORMANCE ORGANISATIONS DURING UNCERTAIN TIMES |
Place of Publication | London |
Chapter | 12 |
Publication status | Published - 2 Sep 2019 |