Q5 : New Leadership at Work
AN INSPIRING DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Work is more than what we do, or where we go to make a living. It’s how we shape the world. And as the dilemmas facing humanity deepen, growing public awareness of what’s at stake is turning the spotlight on the world of work, its values, its leaders, its purpose.
Recent sociological research confirms a significant shift in consciousness is underway. People have a growing sense of connection to each other and the planet as a whole and there’s an increased willingness to genuinely address our social and ecological crises. More and more ordinary people the world over, want the organisations they support with their custom or their labour or their vote to expand their horizons beyond self-interest, and put their shaping power and influence behind the search for solutions to real needs.
Leadership consciousness at corporate and political level is not keeping pace with this trend. The issues are complex and require a more holistic perspective, a capacity to think beyond the fourth quarter, and a willingness to integrate the needs of the wider system and the needs of the organisation in order to secure the future for everyone. A new generation of leaders with a different mindset and value system is needed to catalyse this cultural shift.
Q5 : New Leadership at Work is an inspiring development programme designed to deepen the capacity of participants to respond meaningfully to an emerging future that is without precedent. Over the course of eight learning modules that combine cutting-edge perspectives with reflective dialogue and group discussion, you’ll explore the human and cultural dimension of our global dilemmas and begin to form a more accurate picture of the world - the way it really is, not the way we have organised it to be.
Q5 is a space in which a new kind of leadership can emerge. It offers a liberating perspective on the implications of the choices and decisions we make individually, and collectively as organisations, and helps you to see power and responsibility in new and subtle ways. It brings conversations that matter into places that matter to expand leadership consciousness and develop more reflective, responsive practitioners. It’s also an excellent platform on which to cultivate a community of change agents, working across the system, united by an awareness of what’s at stake, and inspired by a shared sense of possibility and potential.
Q5 is a new lens for a new kind of leadership, for a world in transition.
Content Overview
| Part 1 | The culture challenge The big picture and the systemic nature of our dilemmas |
| Part 2 | Ways of seeing Understand the power of paradigm |
| Part 3 | Connectedness, relationship and balance Appreciate the implications of radical interdependence |
| Part 4 | The language of living systems Discover the principles of life and living systems |
| Part 5 | Communecology Make the connection between the inner world and the outer world |
| Part 6 | Power and the status quo See power at work in human systems |
| Part 7 | Change: paradox and potential Learn how change happens in living systems |
| Part 8 | Taking it Personally What now? |
Duration
Q5 is usually presented in eight half-day modules.
Who would find this helpful?
In-company, Q5 is a timely and important contribution to the leadership development agenda, for progressive leaders and change agents who want to better understand the relationship between personal values, organisational culture and the wider environment - to know the present and prepare for the future.
In its public form, Q5 will benefit anyone who wants to understand the dynamics underpinning the complex issues of our time, explore their potential to make a difference, and become part of a community of like-minded people.
In either setting, Q5 it’s an ideal vehicle for establishing or strengthening any group or network engaged in the challenge of renewal.
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"I found Q5 hugely motivating and I’ve been motivated to read many of the books referenced during the conversations and push forward a large environmental programme at my company."
"I feel revitalised.... I am reevaluating my career and my place in the world, and Q5 has been very valuable in helping me make decisions about my future."
"Q5’s talks and conversations introduced me to a more appropriate vocabulary to discuss what is happening around us."
"Every person in our organisation should do this programme. It would change the way we think about everything."
"I really enjoyed the course and found it very interesting and useful."
"Uplifting, energizing, challenging, educational, scary, rewarding, a wake up call. Some of the words I use to describe my participation in the conversation called Q5."
"This is cutting edge - way ahead of its time. It has shifted the way I think in a way that’s subtle and powerful"
"I would love to see the day when school children are given the opportunity to explore the challenge that exists in Q5."
"l enjoyed the reading material, many new authors. l have a scientific background but strange as it may seem l had never really considered ‘systems’ in the human situation. Thanks a lot for the sessions which were truly enriching for me."
"The breadth of the considerations of how the world is and the depth of the realities underlying not only the nature of the problems but also illuminating the (I would like to think) true stature of mankind is enormous."
"I loved the opportunity to discuss questions of values with such a wide variety of people."
"The opportunity to explore real issues with like-minded people was one of the memorable aspects of Q5."
"I enjoyed the programme very much, very stimulating and particularly enriching as it was a range of people I would not usually come into contact with... thanks so much for the effort, energy, courage in taking Q5 out to such a diverse group. I loved it."