Why Develop Facilitative Leadership Skills?
The facilitative approach to leadership recognizes the innate drive in people to participate and draws it forth by conscious invitation, eliciting a keen sense of engagement and ownership for the challenge at hand. The benefits of facilitative leadership are clear. Employees who work in a more collaborative work environment tend to feel better about their contributions to the organization, are more productive, and report a greater sense of personal/professional balance. Individuals in these settings tend to develop project management skills, group problem-solving skills, conflict management skills, and overall business acumen more quickly than do their counterparts in “command and control” environments. Developing Employees as Stakeholders Through the conscious development of facilitative leadership skills, specifically in the areas of: the art of effective dialogue, group-consensus building and participative action-planning, leaders begin to treat employees as stakeholders in the orga
