Develop

The Develop pillar seeks to address members' personal and career development.

For example, in April 2009, Prof. Eddie Obeng run a 75 minute workshop for Star 100 UK on leadership. With great energy, humour and passion he spoke about:

  • how the nature of leadership has changed as the world has moved away from hierarchical agrarian societies driven by Nature's cycles to a heavily populated, interconnected world
  • the difference between a manager, who people report to (often because they have to) and a leader who people follow (because they choose to)
  • the importance of a leader creating a safe environment in which to identify and address followers' fears
  • the importance of not misleading
  • the four levers at a leader's disposal: their behaviour, their emotions, their actions and their thinking process
  • how leadership actually works, the transmits-receive model: