RelationaLeadership
Unlock the transformative power of relational leadership with insights, strategies, and resources tailored to elevate your team’s effectiveness and organizational impact.
RelationaLearning requires RelationaLeaders
- RelationaLeadership invites any leader to put the relationship first in who they are and what they do.
- RelationaLeadership helps people understand the why, what and how of leading relationally.
- RelationaLeadership is an approach to leading that personalizes every interaction between people by progressively increasing everyone’s happiness and success.
- RelationaLeadership guides leaders in the development of relationships that are mutually co-created.
- RelationaLeadership supports leaders to understand and build the skills, sensibilities, and practices that increase satisfaction and joy while developing collective purpose and impact.
- RelationaLeadership helps a person create the way they want to relate.
Inspire Change
Lead your Team
Teach with Passion
Strengthen Relationships
RelationaLeadership Model
Our approach sees relational leadership as a developmental process that takes place on two separate but interdependent scales. These scales mirror the relational learning scale where relationships can be developed and progressed in four stages, (1) recognition, (2) understanding, (3) valuing, and finally (4) co-creating and co-sponsoring.
In our approach leading relationally is developed by simultaneously increasing the leader’s satisfaction, joy, and happiness and their impact. A client will be able to uncover current patterns of engagement in their relationships. These patterns of relating to others reveal what stage of relating is dominant and then sensibilities and practices are developed to consciously take one to the highest levels of relationship. The chart below is a visual of this dynamic process.
“The heart of our work is one on one with people- it’s about building relationships, it is not about meetings’s about conversations.”
—Robert Putnam-Better Together
Characteristics Of RelationaLeadership
RelationaLeadership helps leaders value the connection with others above any result, action, or outcome. It prepares leaders to focus on others and to pay careful attention to their state of mind and speech, thereby creating a space for others to express their feelings, thoughts, and experiences.
RelationaLeadership produces leaders who can ensure that everyone in every situation is seen, heard, respected, and treated as an equal.
Leaders who put the relationship first calm, nourish, and uplift those around them to feel safe, secure, seen, and heard. The relationship is what matters most to a relational leader.
Relational leaders are strategic mindful communicators who are focused on placing relationships first in motivating others to excel.
Leaders who understand themselves are more capable of understanding others. Experience in self-inquiry allows them to better understand other’s perceptions and experiences. They understand to be understood. RelationaLeadership supports leaders in this ongoing process of self-examination.
RelationaLeadership directs leaders to analyze every interaction with others to ensure that the relationship comes first. They are skilled at focusing on others’ needs and they pay careful attention to their own speech helping others feel open to expressing their feelings. They are warm, genuine, empathic helpers who observe, listen, and inquire how they might best lead with compassion and understanding.
Relational leaders are seen and experienced as kind, caring, authentic, committed, and purposeful human beings.
RelationaLeadership helps leaders to be clear, consistent, and caring. They don’t judge, insult, or condemn. They tell the truth.
A relational leader values the connection with others above any result or action they create. People before Programs is their motto. Their goal is to become aligned and affiliated with others in purpose and intent to create solidarity, community, impact, and increased joy and happiness.
RelationaLeadership teaches leaders to know and utilize all dimensions of human communication to establish a trustworthy and rich exchange.
Relational leaders are skilled guides who engage others where they are on a learning continuum moving them from recognizing, understanding, and valuing learning to reciprocal co-creation, a state where everyone is interdependent in productive learning and growth, joy, and satisfaction.
