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The source of leadership
A short and rather personal introduction to Frits Wilmsen’s Impeccable Leadership Approach By R. David Cummins When we hear the word “impeccable,” we think of something that is perfect. Something that has no faults or errors. Or someone who can do no wrong. And indeed, when we look into a dictionary we will see that […]
Reap the fruits of lessons learned via a structured dialogue
Frits Wilmsen In this new land without borders called Corona, leaders and teams are learning ‘on-the-fly’ to stay on track. We get accustomed to the new normal. And yet, can you relate to this? Days packed with video conferences, doing our tasks, in between taking care of kids and maybe elderly too, ordering stuff online, […]
Navigating crisis with Impeccable Leadership
By Frits Wilmsen and Christine Wank, an article published on Medium.com Introduction ‘How can Impeccable leadership (ILS), as a methodology, be of service to organizations and to leaders in dealing with the impact of the Corona crisis?’ ‘How can we support leaders and teams in finding their way through this uncharted terrain in such manner […]
Leadership and Morality
The leader, Alpha, and Omega? A moral question… Is the leader almighty? Is his word law? From early on, the King has been a symbol of leadership. In the old Egypt, the king embodied godly power and the order of the world. The Egyptians did not place their king as an absolute monarch at the […]
Phases in the Leadership Process
Three phases of the leadership process An organization is like a living organism, continuously developing. As a leader, how do you make sure that you’re displaying behavior that improves the health and functioning of the organism? How do you prevent having an unintended inhibitory effect on the functioning of the team? We know that the […]
Leadership Behavior
Each phase of development asks for different Leadership Behavior In each phase of development the leader has a different role to support the group in development and creating results. With a different role comes different behavior. The first and reactive phase asks for defining clear borders. It asks for defining a clear goal. In this […]
Lifting up the mask…
I got in touch with Impeccable Leadership as a photographer. Later on I participated in an Impeccable Leadership training. What I recognize in this approach is the “uncovering of the essence”. I recognize the steering and leading from your heart. For me that’s the same in photography. The subject must touch me in order to […]
Leadership roles
There are six leadership roles in the Impeccable Leadership model. Each role is part of your leadership potential and armory. Broadly developed leadership can be recognized by the measure in which you’re capable of flexibly switching between the different roles. In order to be able to do that you need to have the competencies that […]
The capacity of a human community to shape it’s future
The capacity of a human community to shape it’s future. That’s the favorite definition of Leadership of Peter Senge. He emphasizes two aspects of leadership with this definition. The first being that it’s about the collective. The second that leadership has a creative orientation, that he sees as fundamental for leadership; “how we realise things that […]
To me in the essence it’s about transformation
So much has been written about leadership and so many models have been made. Still the model of Impeccable Leadership is something new. It shows a process that takes place on the level of content as well as the level of processes between people. This makes it unique because it enables people to look into […]