What is Total Respect Management (TR3M) and Why is it Essential to Your Success? (3)
Peter BLOKLAND, PhD
Empowering organizations through systems thinking, ethical leadership, ISO 31000 training, and team alignment for better decision-making and continuous improvement.
Part 3: The components of TR3M – Ethical Leadership
In a world of constant change and growing complexity, Total Respect Management (TR3M) offers a systemic and integrated approach to achieving Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). TR3M is more than a theoretical model; It was developed from my experience as a pilot, squadron commander and staff officer in an organization that had to do increasingly more with less. This experience was further strengthened by academic research and a PhD at TU Delft (See part 1). Through a series of mutually reinforcing processes, TR3M helps organizations—from SMEs to multinationals, regardless of their sector—increase their positive impact on society and continuously improve business results.
Why respect is an essential value and why this business strategy is important can already be discovered in part 2 of this series. In this third article on Total Respect Management, we take a closer look at the pillars on which TR3M rests. These pillars are: ethical leadership, systems thinking and ISO 31000. Together, they form an integrated approach that enables organisations, regardless of sector and size, to do business in a? sustainable and responsible manner. This week we're talking about the driving factor: "Ethical Leadership"
Ethical Leadership
Today, numerous adjectives can be added to the term "leadership," each emphasizing that one aspect would be crucial to defining leadership. In Total Respect Management (TR3M), however, we see leadership as a process that reveals the essence of leadership. For TR3M, this process starts with a vision of the current reality and goes beyond the immediately visible. In addition, leadership includes a vision of the (a better) future: a goal that you as a leader have in mind and actively pursue.
This dual vision—of the present and the future—forms the foundation of leadership. Whether it is seeing a situation in the moment and imagining what follows next, or a global perspective and a vision for the coming century, there is always a variety of possibilities between the present and the future. This vision of the future and the opportunities associated with it can inspire people to act, both in the short and long term.
Showing leadership therefore means making the choices that will determine the path to that vision of the future. For self-leadership, you first need direction for yourself, and what you choose for yourself. Leadership over others requires the will to take them along with you on your path to the future. And if you want to go down that road in a socially responsible way, then the adjective "ethical" might be the best fit.
In today's VUCA and BANI world, where change, complexity and sometimes incomprehensible issues cause a lot of uncertainty and ambiguity, people look with anxiety at what is to come and confidence in the future has often become very brittle. Especially the sudden emergence of unexpected events such as a pandemic or the outbreak of conflicts can throw people off balance. That is why more and more leadership is needed to inspire people and give them a purpose and inspire confidence.
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A wonderful statement about leadership and leaders by Peter Senge, author of "the fifth discipline", is an answer to the question of whether leaders are "born" or "made". His answer is, "Leaders are born.... And then they're made."
By this statement, he indicates that leadership is something you can (and should) learn. This is also the basic assumption of TR3M. After all, it is a strategy that boosts one’s leadership, making it easier to find the right way in the web of opportunities that presents itself every day. However, TR3M also sees leadership as a process by which you translate a vision into a mission and ambition, to which you link specific values and beliefs. When these are ethical values and beliefs, you can speak of "Ethical Leadership".
These vision, mission, ambition, values and beliefs are essential choices that will determine the continuation of the process and that can help shape the identity and organizational culture of one’s organization. On the one hand, a clear story will inspire and point the way, but on the other hand, a vague or missing idea causes a lot of indecision and leads to an aimless and uninspired wandering around in the desert of postponed choices.
When your vision of the future is clear and people can identify with it, you can develop competencies and skills that fit with your values and beliefs and use them in ethical behaviour, with which you shape a better society. Of course, it's just a little more complicated than these few words. But in essence, that's how Ethical Leadership helps in making the right choices and walk the path to a better future for all of us.
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3 个月Frank Verschueren Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear, Incomprehensible. Het zijn de zaken die ook in de tekst verwerkt zijn.
Hallo Peter Sorry wat is BANI Groetjes Frank
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3 个月Peter BLOKLAND, PhD Read your writing in a breath. Awesome indeed! As context changes, future vision may be changed also. In that case how leadership will be defined? And it will affect ethical leadership?