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Extracted Content: At the heart of being able to lead others with inspiration, a leader needs to be cognitive of the needs and motivations of those you are leading. In the modern day and age and especially with the more recent Covid19 pandemic and its associated new ways of working, it has become clear that leaders will be expected to adopt innovative means to lead organisations of people. Leading people just to remain positive or pushing organisations towards its goals, regardless of the impact on the workforce, will no longer suffice to make organisations sustainable. There is a stark realisation that leaders will be required to lead with inspiration which implies due consideration of what drives people to be self-directed and motivated in the absence of supervision and other traditional means of management controls.
The North-West University Business School was quick to respond to the aforementioned insight and implemented significant ADDITIONS to its programme. In pursuit of maintaining the School’s learning relevance and continuous improvement it was also decided to introduce a novel voluntary leadership coaching programme to MBA students. The intent with this programme is mainly to equip students with foundational people-centric principles for their current or future leadership roles. The programme is mainly built on the theoretical underpinnings of Contemporary Neuroscience, but also contains elements of the Study of Change, Positive Psychology, Systems and Learning Theory.