As an important part of leadership within a human services organization, one theme that arose was the need to attend to change. In my personal leadership journey, I found the framework presented by Wheatley (2005) as most helpful in understanding change as a constant, arising out of naturally embedded, organic, and creative processes that are inherent in all organizations. In response, leaders seeking to facilitate change are required only to create the conditions that more effectively support these natural capacities. Central to supporting this self-organizing change impulse, and most important to my social work and leadership experiences, this included:
"It is attention to the process more than the product, that enables us to weave an organization as flexible and resilient as a spider's web" (p. 112). |