Indirect Leadership – Book Circle Online
BOOK CIRCLE OVERVIEW
You will read the book Indirect Leadership with Carl Starendal and other participants over a period of 10 weeks. Together, we will explore the research-based model of Indirect Leadership developed by the Swedish Defence University and gain practical tips and advice on how to apply the book’s insights in your daily work as a leader or manager.
To deepen our understanding of the concepts in the book, we will also engage with materials from MIT and Peter Senge about learning organizations and systems thinking.
Given Carl’s international recognition as an expert on modern working methods & management, the book circle will also focus on how we can effectively act as indirect leaders for teams, trains, value streams, and organizations that use these approaches.
Every other week, you will read a section of the book, meet with the group to discuss the content, and collectively reflect on the insights, their implications, and how they can be applied in daily work.
Please note that this book circle will be conducted in Swedish.
FACILITATED BOOK CIRCLE FORMAT
- 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 400 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.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BOOK CIRCLE
- Leaders and managers
- Line Managers
- Business Owners
- RTEs and Solution Train Engineers (STEs)
- Program and project managers
- Scrum Masters
- Agile coaches
- SAFe Program Consultants (SPCs)
BOOK CIRCLE SESSIONS
- September 9th: Indirect Leadership – a theoretical model, the Leadership Model & Emotions at a high managerial level (41 pages to read)
- September 23rd: The container function of leadership, Formal and informal processes, Hierarchy and horizontal links & Indirect leadership under everyday stress (42 pages to read)
- October 7th: Indirect leadership under acute stress, The Indirect Leader as a person & developing as an Indirect Leader (42 pages to read)
- October 21st: Extra Content – Systems Thinking & Peter Senge/MIT (20 pages to read)
- November 11th: Workshop – modern (Agile & Lean) working methods and Indirect Leadership (no reading required)
BOOK: INDIRECT LEADERSHIP
Indirect Leadership – The ‘soft’ sides of higher leadership”
When the effects we seek in leadership are several steps, links, or levels away from where we have direct influence, and we must “lead from a distance and through others.” then we can talk about the leadership being performed as Indirect.
Well-executed Indirect Leadership has much in common with the powerful and direct Transformational Leadership researched in the Leadership model from the Swedish Defence University, but here the primary paths to outreach are action-oriented through links, image-oriented in how we are perceived at a distance, and by creating conditions for trust in the organization.
The forms and challenges of leadership vary depending on the organizational level one is at. Indirect Leadership—IL—differs in several ways from direct leadership. Besides the physical distance to employees, it also involves managing various parallel time scales such as rapid decisions and strategic long-term decision-making, and balancing directives from above as well as demands and expectations from below.
READ MORE
- Bok: Indirekt Ledarskap (Swedish)
- Video med Carl Starendal – Indirekt Ledarskap (Swedish)
- Podcast: The Science of Giving Orders with Carl Starendal (English)
INCLUDED IN THE BOOK CIRCLE
High quality facilitation delivered by Carl Starendal
Five online sessions, 90 minutes each
Prepared slides and workshop material
Certificate of participation
INSTRUCTORS
Carl Starendal
Carl is an experienced leader, having decades of hands-on experience as an entrepreneur, manager & leader across a diverse range of industries. He is also a sought-after keynote speaker on leadership, management, and modern product development and a highly regarded mentor & advisor as well as one of the Transformational Leadership trainers (Utvecklande Ledarskap) certified by the Swedish Defence Academy.
Carl Starendal is also as one of the global SAFe Fellows an official contributor to the SAFe Framework and one of the key people behind the Release Train Engineer (RTE) certification course.
Indirect Leadership – Book Circle Online
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with Carl Starendal
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5 sessions September 9 - September 9
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Online Training (CET timezone),
The fine print
Cancellations done up to 30 days before the course start date will not be charged and all paid fees will be reimbursed.
Cancellations done up to 10 days before the course start date will be charged 50% of the course fee.
Cancellations done within 10 days before the course start date will be charged the full course fee.
All prices are excluding VAT.
VAT will be added to all prices during checkout, depending on your country of residence.
INTERESTED IN AN INHOUSE OR ONLINE AGILE CLASS?
Are you interested in this course as a inhouse class at your company or even an online course?
Our trainers are happy to talk about including your specifics in the training. Just Contact us and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible!
