One of the most important personality traits needed to lead a team forward is leadership. It is often assumed that leadership is innate and not every manager can boast of this quality. However, leadership can also be developed by setting clear goals so that significant achievements can be achieved.
Vesa Nissinen and the publishing house VAGA present a news for current and future team managers – a book “Insightful Leadership“. The author successfully destroys the belief that only exceptional people are gifted with leadership and invites you to learn what is needed so that everyone can develop these qualities and how to successfully apply leadership in practice after acquiring the necessary knowledge.
“Leadership is not a mystical thing. It is human communication and we have opportunities to rehearse it. Insightful Leadership is a learning program that supports the development of your leadership skills and helps you understand what matters most. I started thinking about insightful leadership because I see the reality as you do: the amount of information and research has gotten out of control. I began to ask what is most significant, how can I find the one needle in the information flow like a huge haystack that is necessary for my growth. Is it possible to learn leadership? Where can I start?
Literature usually explains what leadership is. I am going to tell you how it can be learned. In my opinion, practical leadership is neither a science nor an art. Because we no longer inherit leadership, none of us are born leaders. It is also impossible to become a virtuoso in this game, but I strongly believe that every leader must be able to lead,” says the author of the book.
Vesa Nissinen’s Insightful Leadership first explores what insight is and how to put this form of leadership into practice. This chapter introduces readers to what constitutes the foundation of insightful leadership, explains why such leadership is related to lifelong learning, and provides questions to deepen understanding of the information presented.
The second chapter analyzes the leader’s behavior in detail: what essential features are characteristic of inspirational actions, destructive leadership models are presented, the general structure of leadership behavior is explained, and what changes occur when applying the principles of insightful leadership.
The third part is dedicated to the environment in which managers operate. The work organization also has its own microclimate, so it is important to be able to maintain a balance there as well and to be able to skillfully manage the ongoing processes.
In the fourth part, the author introduces the readers to the leader’s profile: he analyzes and presents in detail the importance of communication with his followers and the feedback that the leader receives as a result of his activities.
For leadership to be successful and organic, learning and development is essential. It is in the fifth chapter that readers will understand the importance of coaching. This is the inclusive part of management, where it is important to see how management is conducted, what decisions are made and what results are achieved. You are invited to learn to reflect on what decision mistakes have been made and what needs to be changed, and what leadership discoveries to enjoy and practice in the future.
Finally, Vesa Nissinen will introduce the history of leadership, the most important concepts and personalities who created leadership strategies.
Insightful Leadership is a theoretical and practical book that provides team leaders with a comprehensive, organic toolkit to help shape, improve, and grow themselves and their followers who expect wise, proactive, and inspiring problem solving, task delegation, and community building.
We invite you to read an excerpt from the book:
In the insightful leadership model, we can learn from experience. His goal in the leadership training program is to create such a perspective on the concept of leadership behavior that will help training participants to interpret their experiences and form new meaningful perspectives. This model also allows for the understanding and application of knowledge gained from leadership research in ways that are useful for teaching and learning. It is important to create an integrated framework for trainees to build upon and continuously improve their leadership behavior through feedback.
Each leader’s behavior can be seen to be influenced by both insightful and controlling or passive leadership principles. What matters is how much and how strongly these leadership dimensions are manifested in the operational environment. The most effective managers obviously follow the principles of insightful leadership far more often; in the operational environments they lead, controlling leadership is rare and passive leadership is virtually non-existent.
The work environment has a certain effect on the dimensions of insightful leadership, more precisely, the leader’s ability to work with people. In extremely critical situations, the fundamental principles of leadership can change. For example, when there is a major change in the structure of an organization, leadership is manifested by increasing trust in employees and paying attention to each individual.
Such a phenomenon can be theoretically explained by the fact that in the face of a crisis, people focus on lower needs and then the feeling of security becomes extremely important. Of all the core principles of insightful leadership, trust-building and individualized attention provide the most security.
When new solutions are needed, inspiring motivation and intellectual stimulation are activated – this strengthens creativity and provides a stimulus for innovation. These dimensions of insightful leadership are particularly important in leading expert organizations. However, previous studies allow us to make the following assumption: regardless of the operating environment and people’s potential, insightful leadership as a whole is always more effective and efficient than controlling leadership, however, in certain extreme operating environments, it may not be possible to implement the principles of the first.
Conceptualization also helps to understand visionary leadership. A leader’s behavior is goal-directed communication, if this is not possible, insightful leadership is out of balance. There is another side to this coin: insightful leadership has far more lasting results than controlling leadership. This is one of the most important qualities of insightful leadership, thanks to which this type of leadership helps to avoid serious problems that can disrupt the effectiveness of a group or an entire organization.
For example, R.Gal’s long-term research (1994, 1999) supports the idea that insightful leadership principles help people reduce the level of battle tension. Similar results have been obtained in recent studies in the field of work, for example, regarding fatigue at work and sick leave.
It must be remembered that true leadership is recognized when followers change the meanings given to things. The summer intern will see the manager’s authority through the prism of his own perception and experience. The same applies to the position of a doctor conducting research at a university in relation to a professor. However, the experiences and perspectives of the meaning of a summer intern or a research PhD in leadership are different.
Therefore, although conceptually the latter rate their managers’ individual attention skills similarly, it is likely that in practice they expect somewhat different behavior from them. Also, there are individual differences between people. And this is a constant challenge that every manager faces as he seeks to improve his leadership behavior. In a new environment, when interacting with new people, you need to actively seek feedback.
The effectiveness of a leader’s behavior in changed circumstances can be ensured by carefully sensing the environment. The insightful leadership model was created so that we would not have any leadership theory or criteria, but a teaching tool. Because these two approaches are very different. Leadership training participants must be given clear guidelines on how to evaluate their own behavior so that they can improve it and improve their self-control.
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