Indirect Leadership – Online Book Circle

You will read the book Indirect Leadership together with Carl Starendal and other participants over 10 weeks. We will learn about the research-based model of Indirect Leadership from the Swedish Defence Academy, and receive practical tips and advice on how you can apply the book’s insights in your daily work as a leader or manager.

To connect with the material and ideas in the book, we will also read materials from MIT & Peter Senge about learning organizations and systems thinking.

As Carl is an internationally recognized expert on modern working methods (Agile & Lean methods & frameworks), the book club will relate to how we can effectively act as indirect leaders for Agile teams, trains, value streams, and organizations.

You will read a part of the book every other week and then meet in a group, discuss the content, and collectively reflect on insights, what they mean, and how they can be used in daily work.

This Bookcircle is only held in Swedish.

• The book circle is held online in Swedish with 6–12 participants.
• It consists of 5 sessions, every other week via video conference in the Discord application, from 14:00–15:30 Swedish time.
• Each session includes a lecture part from Carl, related to the content, followed by an open discussion with questions from the participants and a review of what we are reading for the next meeting, as well as the reflection task for the coming week, which is done offline at one’s own pace.
• During and after the book circle, you have access to a common group chat in the Discord application, where we share additional articles, ideas, and reflections from the material, and where you can also reach the other participants and Carl Starendal during and after the book circle if you have questions or want to discuss something.
• You need to order the book yourself, which costs 390 SEK online so that you have time to read the first part before the first meeting. You will receive instructions on how to do this when you sign up.

• Executive Leaders and managers
• Line Managers
• Group and Team managers
• Business Owners
• RTEs and Solution Train Engineers (STEs)
• Program and project managers
• Scrum Masters
• Agile coaches
• SAFe Program Consultants (SPCs)

• Session 1: Indirect Leadership – a theoretical model, the Leadership Model & Emotions at a high managerial level (41 pages to read)
• Session 2: The container function of leadership, Formal and informal processes, Hierarchy and horizontal links & Indirect leadership under everyday stress (42 pages to read)
• Session 3: Indirect leadership under acute stress, The Indirect Leader as a person & developing as an Indirect Leader (42 pages to read)
• Session 4: Extra Content – Systems Thinking & Peter Senge/MIT (20 pages to read)
• Session 5: Workshop – modern (Agile & Lean) work methods and Indirect Leadership (no reading required)