AgTalk - The Leadership Challenge with Debbie Nicol

Marcus Oldham AgTalk

The issue of leadership is an ever-increasing topic of discussion around the world especially in these times of covid. You often here someone say ‘All we need is better leadership and we wouldn’t be in this situation’.

But what is leadership? It’s a question that has interested me for a long time. Many years ago I was fortunate enough to be a participant in the Australian Rural Leadership Course. We were given several books to read most of which I have long forgotten about except for one in particular.

That Book was called the Leadership Challenge written by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner. What stood out for me about this book was that it, was evidence based and broke the concept of leadership down into tangible parts that frankly just made sense to a boy from the bush.

So today I want to introduce you to the Leadership Challenge as I believe it is a key resource in this area and one we use here at the College in our leadership course. To guide us through we are lucky to have Debbie Nicol join us who is the Managing Director of Business en motion, based out of Dubai.

Debbie is certified Master facilitator in the delivery of the Leadership Challenge content and has had over 28 years of experience in international human resources, organisational development and strategic change management.