I could not attend Self leadership class taken by Anil sir, since I had prior compelling personal commitments. I regret that I could not use this wonderful and rare opportunity of self learning. In this blog I will reflect upon on the learning’s article of “Immunity to Change: A Report from the Field” and first self leadership class.
This article “A report from the Field” concentrates on subject of adult development is well proven in theoretical sense, but shows the way how it can be applied for practical purposes. Here Jonathan describes how he tried to implement his learning’s from the book of “Immunity to change” to organization and individual development. In the first half of the article he tells us the key learning from the book in a very short and conscience manner so that people who are not familiar can have a overview on this.
In 2009, he tried his hand in practical application of Robert Kegan’s work at a master’s program in organization leadership. It was his phase one implementation he did meet success in 50-60% of cases. The main problem in this phase was the language, since many students could not implement it properly. Four column works could not be done in an effective manner since participants were from varied industry which did not lead to common consensus of the problem identification.
In his phase two, he did correct the short comings of phase 1.He did start with an analysis why this four column work only worked for 60-70% of people .Since people did not start with really core issues in column 1 ending with non important work. By starting with change in organization which they consider really important a consensus was reached and four columns was identified and implemented. He did not start personally with people’s problem since humans really don’t open up for change. He gave an explanation on general things and showed it can also be implemented individually.
Four column works was done initially in four different papers and was finally combined in a single page to avoid confusion. Individuals were surprised by the result of the findings. Final process of how these individual learning’s can be sustained was devised. First members shared it with partners and finally with whole class so that it made an impact to the individual and organization development. One individual comment was “Now i have answers to the questions I did not even know existed before”
Article concludes by saying that since the field testing of the article is a success, the work of Kegan and Lehlay should enable any competent facilitator to bring in a self understanding inside the individuals which will facilitate the immunity to change. Thus the question of bringing change in adults with this framework should bring in higher consciousness for the individuals.
In the first self leadership class, nil sir described about the six layers of self and its connection with five pillars of SOIL. He concentrated on the role of leadership where person should be able to lead his own body, actions, heart and emotions and intellect and thoughts. It is also making others realizing their leadership potential.Corelation of positive and negative energy based on our emotions and fears will in a long way help in maintaining the physical and spiritual energy in harmony. Ability to capitalize on the intellect capacities will help us in identifying good and bad circumstances around us.
I would like to finish the blog by saying that all our decisions are based on the clarity of thought which will arise only from stable and peaceful mind. Without consciously understanding and knowing the position at which we currently in we cannot move in any direction or lead others. Thus we need to fully understand our strengths, weakness and keep improving on these.
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