Republic of the Philippines
Commission on Higher Education
Region V
LIGAO COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Masagana St. Tomolin, Ligao City, 4504
Email – Address: ligaocommunitycollege@gmail.com
Tel Nos.: 0926 – 772 - 1213 / (052) 830 – 6446
UNIT
5
THE TEACHER AS AN ORGANIZATIONAL LEADER
(IV. EVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP THEORY(ELT)
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the session, teachers should be able to:
1. Discuss what Evolutionary Leadership is
2. Teach about leadership and its evolution all over theyears
3. Consider some important content of evolutionary leadership theory.
KEY UNDERSTANDINGS
Part 1. Evolutionary Leadership Theory(ELT)
Part 2. The seven competencies to act as a foundational framework for developing
Evolutionary Leaders are:
a. Personal Evolution
b. Emotions and Generative Language
c. Systems Thinking
d. Systemic Sustainability
e. Ontological Designing
f. Adaptive Work & Collaboration
g. Evolutionary Visions, Scenarios, and Wisdom
MATERIALS
 Laptop
 Projector
TIME ALLOTMENT
Maximum of 30 minutes
REFERENCES
 http://slideplayer.com/slide/7275591
 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/seven-competencies-evolutionary-leadershipframework-ovchinnikov
INTRODUCTION
Goodafternoon pre-service teachers! I'm Babylyn C. Nacion and I am happy to be here
with you as your speaker. Today, we will be focusing on Evolutionary Leadership Theory (ELT).
At the end of the session, you will also know and learn about the 7 competencies to act as a
foundational framework for developing Teacher leadership and be able to know the leadership
evolution all over the years. This session will help you throughly understand the evolution of
leadership as time passes by.
Republic of the Philippines
Commission on Higher Education
Region V
LIGAO COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Masagana St. Tomolin, Ligao City, 4504
Email – Address: ligaocommunitycollege@gmail.com
Tel Nos.: 0926 – 772 - 1213 / (052) 830 – 6446
ACTIVTY
The participants will be led on a pre-discussion activity entitled, ARRANGE ME. They
will be arranging the jumbled letters below:
1. SPREOLAN IVENOULTO
2. TOISNNEO DAN RIVEEEGANT UGAGEALN
3. YSSTSME GIKNIHTN
4. CIMSSETYAT YTLILBANIATUS
5. LOGICALONTO SIGNDEING
6. PTIVEAAD OWKR & LLCOTBAOINRAO
7. ARYNOIOTUVEL SIONSIV, SOIRANECS, ADN OMDISW
ANALYSIS
To further discuss the activity, the pre-service teachers will participate through
answering the following quide question.
1. Were you able to answer all the items?
2. Are you familiar with all the words given in the activity?
3. What are the unfamiliar words you encountered?
ABSTRACTION
The core of our session today is all about Evolutionary leadership theory. We know that
when we talk about Evolution, it is a broader topic or has a wider informations. As we go on with
our discussion you will briefly know and understand the 7 competencies in ELT.
Part 1. Evolutionary Leadership Theory(ELT)
Evolutionary Leadership is a capacity to mobilize oneself and others to consciously and effectively
redesign worldviews, cultures, and institutions for a more just, sustainable, and flourishing world.
Evolutionary leadership is one of the newer terms related to leadership. It offers a multidimensional perspective drawn from the latest business school research, as well as positive
psychology, integral theory, and spirituality.Evolutionary leadership has less to do with what you
do, and more to do with what you believe in and value. Evolutionary leaders are, by definition,
self-aware and constantly strive to keep their egos in check. They are connected to a higher vision
and know that becoming the best leader they can be is a process they will never complete. Instead
of finding this discouraging, however, they are motivated and fueled by their sense of purpose to
keep learning, and to push the boundaries of what cutting-edge leadership looks like, not only for
themselves but for all of those who will follow.
Part 2. Seven competencies to act as a foundational framework for developing Evolutionary
Leaders
A. Personal Evolution
Republic of the Philippines
Commission on Higher Education
Region V
LIGAO COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Masagana St. Tomolin, Ligao City, 4504
Email – Address: ligaocommunitycollege@gmail.com
Tel Nos.: 0926 – 772 - 1213 / (052) 830 – 6446
Personal Evolution Competency supports leaders in developing a complexity of
consciousness and a new worldview through becoming a different kind of observer of the world.
Most of our leaders operate from conventional mind [Kegan, 1982] influenced by the tribal
mindset that makes people put their tribe’s survival first and consider their tribe’s culture as the
main point of reference for understanding and dealing with our complex world.
B. Emotions & Generative Language
Evolutionary Leaders use the power of emotions and language to bring forth new realities. This
competency invites leaders to master their emotions in a way that sets the foundation for healthy
relationships, for caring, for seeing the other as a legitimate other [Maturana, et al, 1996], and for
setting the context for generative dialogue. This competency also includes developing
philosophical understanding of language and its relationship with emotions which facilitates
conscious articulation of new possibilities and empowers leaders to declare bold stands and
purposes for a just, flourishing, and sustainable world.
C. Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking offers powerful tools for observing the dynamics and outcomes of
systems. It is a discipline for seeing the whole not just parts, a method for seeing visible and
invisible causes of our world problems. Systems Thinking enables leaders to influence the
dynamics of these systems and it can direct their ability to design new social and technological
systems to promote justice, well-being, prosperity, and harmony with nature.
D. Systemic Sustainability
Most people think of sustainability exclusively as an environmental issue. Systemic
Sustainability defines sustainability as a macro-complex system made up of three important subsystems: Environmental Sustainability, Human Sustainability, and Institutional
Sustainability. Each one of these sub-systems supports the existence of the other two which makes
all three sub-systems mutually interdependent. Together, the three sub-systems bring forth an
emergent complex new system: sustainability as a coherent property that supports the well-being
of all three systems. We human beings are now the stewards and caretakers of our systems. This
is a big responsibility and the sooner we understand it and confront this challenge the better our
chances are a species not only to survive, but to build a just, sustainable, and flourishing world.
E. Ontological Designing
Ontological Designing is a discipline for consciously designing our lifeworlds, our institutions,
our products, our processes, and our self, so that they contribute toward the futuring of sustainment
of life on this planet [Fry, 2009]. At the foundation of Ontological Design there are three basic
principles:
1. The human world that we live in is a product of human design. We are all designers
of our world, no matter if we want it or not
2. The world we live in designs us, so everything we design eventually comes back and
designs us
Republic of the Philippines
Commission on Higher Education
Region V
LIGAO COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Masagana St. Tomolin, Ligao City, 4504
Email – Address: ligaocommunitycollege@gmail.com
Tel Nos.: 0926 – 772 - 1213 / (052) 830 – 6446
3. Most of the time we are not aware of what we are designing – changing that gives us
power to effectively design ourselves and the world around us
Ontological Design is a powerful distinction and a powerful discipline that can be used for good
or for bad. Evolutionary Leaders develop skills and capacity to identify, leverage, and influence
the feedback loop between one’s worldview and the cultural, institutional, and physical context,
and use this power to design new realities in an ethical, sustainable, and future-focused ways.
F. Adaptive Work & Collaboration
An adaptive challenge is a challenge that involves a disparity between values and circumstances
[Heifetz, 1994], a challenge in which learning must occur for an effective solution to be found.
Our world today is full of adaptive challenges, and our leaders often misdiagnose these challenges
and treat them as technical problems that they think they already know the answers to, which
causes the problems to persist. Global poverty, hunger, climate change, energy, nuclear
proliferation, and many others are examples of adaptive challenges. Adaptive work requires that
people confront tough issues, confront losses, change of values, make choices, while staying open
to finding new solutions together instead of trying to find experts who “know it all”.
G. Evolutionary Visions, Scenarios, and Wisdom
This competency supports leaders in understanding our evolutionary history as living systems, and
as human beings. It also invites us to develop wisdom in order to make the right choices for our
future. Wisdom asks you to consider the importance of those actions, the choices, and the long
term consequences of those actions. Evolutionary Leaders think in terms of evolutionary time, and
use their understanding of evolutionary principles to design and direct the process of human
evolution. They can think strategically in terms of 10, 25, 50, or 100 years or more to envision that
we can design and build a better world.
APPLICATION
Answer the following questions:
1. It is the capacity to mobilize oneself and others to consciously and effectively redesign
worldviews, cultures, and institutions for a more just, sustainable, and flourishing world.
- EVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP
2. It supports leaders in developing a complexity of consciousness and a new worldview through
becoming a different kind of observer of the world.
- PERSONAL EVOLUTION
3. It offers powerful tools for observing the dynamics and outcomes of systems. It is a discipline
for seeing the whole not just parts, a method for seeing visible and invisible causes of our world
problems.
- SYSTEM THINKING
4. It defines sustainability as a macro-complex system made up of three important sub-systems:
Environmental Sustainability, Human Sustainability, and Institutional Sustainability.
- SYSTEMATIC SUSTAINABILITY
Republic of the Philippines
Commission on Higher Education
Region V
LIGAO COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Masagana St. Tomolin, Ligao City, 4504
Email – Address: ligaocommunitycollege@gmail.com
Tel Nos.: 0926 – 772 - 1213 / (052) 830 – 6446
5. It is a discipline for consciously designing our lifeworlds, our institutions, our products, our
processes, and our self, so that they contribute toward the futuring of sustainment of life on this
planet [Fry, 2009].
- ONTOLOGICAL DESIGNING
CLOSING
The most meaningful activity in which a human being can be engaged is one that is directly
related to human evolution, this is true because humans now play an active and critical role not
only in the process of their own evolution but in the survival and evolution of all living things. Jonas Salk
I want to congratulate all of you for understanding this session. Let’s keep this knowledge
and understanding with us. I hope you pick information by my help to understand these topic and
session. I look forward with you future achievements, I know life is hard but time will come it will
be worth it.
‘If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant
trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people’.
Prepared by:
BABYLYN C. NACION
BSED 3-MATH
Submitted to:
DR. JOVERT M. OFRACIO
Instructor in Prof Ed 9