Leadership Institute
Who are we?
Story
Actions that developed to the creation of this Institute, lines of action and scope
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Context
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According to the World Economic Forum (2012), we have entered a new era called the Human Age, which is characterized by a dynamic, changing environment, where the progressive consolidation of the effects of globalization, demographic changes, the impact of technological advancements and their consequences for the socialization of individuals and organizations require new proposals in the area of leadership.
In addition, in the Survey on the Global Agenda (World Economic Forum, 2015), 86% of respondents agreed that the world is facing a leadership crisis.
Leadership is a complex, multi-dimensional process that has been defined in diverse ways throughout history.Traditional leadership models associated leadership with power. The 20th century saw the development of theories that identified the main characteristics of leaders, based on trait theories, situational theories, the great man theory, among many others.
However, the dawning of the 21st century forced us to rethink traditional leadership models to take into account the new challenges of the knowledge society, the industrial revolution 4.0 and the multigenerational reality.
In short, in this day and age, instead of looking for new answers, we need to identify new questions.
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Consolidación
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In February 2017, during the annual board meeting, Salvador Alva responded to the challenge set by José Antonio Fernández and announced the creation of the Leadership Institute as yet another legacy of Tecnológico de Monterrey.
The Leadership Institute emerged with the mission of making leadership a science in order to develop a new responsible, receptive leadership model to address the challenges faced by the world and to fulfill one of the six institutional strategies: Drive Leadership Development.
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About us
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The Leadership Institute (IL) of Tecnológico de Monterrey, is the entity that contributes to the generation of knowledge, reflection and training, which contribute to the construction of a new vision of leadership for Mexico and the world. With the creation of the Leadership Institute,
Tecnológico de Monterrey renews its commitment to society and with the responsibility of generating collective awareness and social development, through the strengthening of intrapersonal and interpersonal leadership, building from diversity and inclusion, service orientation and from a multidisciplinary and borderless approach.
The Leadership Institute has three objectives:
- Contribute to the reinvention of the concept of leadership. Align and coordinate the leadership development of the Tec community under the "one Tec" philosophy. Position the Tecnológico de Monterrey as an international leader in leadership.
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Líneas de Acción
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To carry out its objectives, the Leadership Institute has four lines of action that develop projects aligned with different areas of the Tec de Monterrey and with external entities.
- Research: Develops an international group of leadership experts who collaboratively generate knowledge in the field and make Tec a benchmark in leadership research.
- Leadership Development: Generates value proposals that contribute to the development of the leaders of our Institution, the community of leadership experts, students and organizations.
- Leadership Observatory: Provides a participatory space that encourages the analysis, generation, development and dissemination of leadership models, tools and resources for the internal and external community of the Institution.
- Strategic Projects: Develop projects that encourage reflection, dialogue and analysis generating a new vision of leadership aligned with the 2030 vision of Tec.
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Reach
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Through the objectives and projects executed by the four lines of action, the Leadership Institute impacts positively on following audiences: Students: through the development of leadership models, tools and techniques, strengthening and supporting the development of transversal competences defined in the Tec21 Educational Model, in cooperation with the Learning Quality Improvement Plan (QEP),
- Leadership and Student Training (LiFE), General Education and National Schools. Collaborators: enriching the development programs displayed by the Talent and Culture area.
- Teachers: related to teaching and research in the field of leadership.
- EXATEC community: providing access to the knowledge, products and services generated by the Institute. External audiences: companies, organizations and governments.
- Tec de Monterrey: as an institution, contributing to the strengthening of the new vision: Leadership, Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Human Flowering.
- Society in general: generating individual and collective consciousness about a new, more humane and responsible leadership.
- We value the existence of others.
- We prioritize human development.
- We harmonize the complexity of our reality with that of others.
- We place our potentialities at the service of others.
- We foster hope and purpose of life in others.
The Leadership Institute seeks to prepare leaders with self-awareness and environment awareness, immersed in a lifelong learning process, committed, resilient, with a positive vision of the present and
- of the future, who find meaning in their life mission
- and flourish by helping others to flourish.
Human flourishing
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What is it?
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Why talk about flourishing?
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Leadership Model
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What is a Leader?
Human flourishing is the conscious, positive development of individuals, achieving their full potential in their physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual and social dimensions.
- We are facing a new era that could be called the Human Age (Manpower, 2011). This new era is defined by a particularly dynamic, changing environment that requires the generation of awareness of the need to leave the old leadership paradigms behind and develop new ways of understanding it.
- In this new era, the leadership deficit has been defined as one of the ten most important challenges faced by humanity and, in the opinion of José Antonio Fernández and Salvador Alva, the first and most important is undoubtedly just that, since, without leaders, who will tackle the challenges of the future and how are we, as a society, going to deal with them?
- The need to build new, more appropriate strategies to address current challenges reflects a new scenario in which leadership acquires a new prominence. A large part of these strategies lies in the maximization of talent, developing people’s potential in volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous settings. The proposal to link leadership to happiness could possibly be considered as the generation of a blue ocean.
- Human flourishing and happiness are extremely valuable for society, so their scarcity makes them a priority.
- The term flourishing is presented as a revised, corrected proposal of the early definitions of happiness and implies an evolution in which happiness will no longer be identified as a unidimensional variable, but rather as a new version in which happiness or flourishing is considered as a multivariable construct.
- The earliest definitions of happiness presented an eminently hedonistic approach that was identified with subjective wellbeing, while the current concept of human flourishing is related to plenitude or self-fulfillment, encompassing other elements apart from pleasure or positive emotions.
Considering this initial analysis and in order to progress in research on leadership and flourishing, a new construct needs to be developed based on the following elements: self-awareness and environment awareness, meaningfulness, positiveness, resilience and commitment.
A leader is an individual who flourishes by helping others to flourish.
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What does it do and who are its members?
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The Community of Leadership Specialists of Tecnológico de Monterrey was created with the aim of transferring the “one Tec” philosophy to the key commitment of preparing leaders, while addressing one of the objectives of the Leadership Institute.
This is achieved through collaboration, the generation of synergies and the optimization of resources that will broaden the scope of the objectives.
The Community is made up of representatives of the different National Schools, members of Student Leadership and Development (LiFE), and the diverse institutional initiatives, such as the Educational Model Tec21 and the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), among others, that manage and master the topic of leadership in their areas of work.
The community also pursues the development of actions that will impact programs, subjects, concentrations, seminars, workshops and courses, targeting diverse segments of interest in a structured, homologous manner and responding to a global strategy.
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Objectives
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- Inform the Tec community about the leadership-related initiatives and strategies being implemented.
- Encourage the community to participate in initiatives and strategies.
- Generate content that will support the mission of the community members and provide a meaningful contribution for society in general.
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Workdays
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Twice a year, members of the Community of Leadership Specialists meet to work on diverse topics, generate projects and internal and external impact collaborations, in relation to leadership.
Workdays:
- Initial Planning Meeting - April 2018 Campus Monterrey
- Workday I – October 2018 Campus Monterrey
- Workday II – March 2019 Campus Guadalajara
- Soon: Workday III – October 2019, Mixcoac
Development Services
The Leadership Institute offers development solutions to drive individual and organizational leadership:
Student leadership
- We design learning experiences for our high school, undergraduate and graduate students.
- Leadership in organizations
- We design solutions for organizations that seek to drive leadership in their human resources.
- Leadership Assessment Service
- This service makes it possible to identify a leadership profile based on a diagnosis of: behaviors, communication styles, motivators and competencies.
Development Opportunities
We offer the course Leadership towards Human Flourishing, where you will learn to develop a leadership style based on consciousness, meaningfulness, resilience, positiveness and commitment, in short, a leadership towards human flourishing.
Leadership Observatory
The Leadership Observatory is an active site, designed to support you with information, resources and a series of services that will favor your development and enable you to interact with the community interested in this important, relevant topic. Visit us!
Where have we been?
We organized the forum "mexico: the yes country " to reflect on the importance of leadership in view of the challenges of mexico of the future. Approximately 400 attendees enjoyed the leadership stories of four members of the Tec community; watched the panel “a possible mexico”; and participated in the dynamic "Mexico, the country we built together", reaffirming their commitment to the country’s transformation.
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We participated in the ILA (International Leadership Association) International Conference, presenting the People Management towards Human Flourishing Model, in West Palm Beach, Florida, in October 2018.
We had two interventions at the Universidad TecMilenio International Forum for the Science of Happiness: 360º Happiness (November 2018): a conference and a workshop on positive leadership, introducing the Leadership towards Human Flourishing Model.
We participated in the CIIE in December 2018 as speakers, offering the conference: "Leadership towards Human Flourishing ".
We designed and executed a leadership activation within the LID (Leaders in Development) Congress for Student Leaders. In this space, 74 undergraduate students from 10 different Tec campuses participated in 27 social impact projects that have driven their leadership skills. We also offered a conference to all the LID attendees on self-leadership.
We will be present at:
- The World Congress of the International Positive Psychology Association in Australia, in July, presenting a symposium on the new perspectives of positive leadership, together with Marisa Salanova, Michael Steger, Wilmar Schaufeli and Kim Cameron.
- The International Leadership Association Conference, in Canada, in October 2019, this time presenting a symposium focused on the new perspective of leadership in higher education, with the participation of LiFE, QEP, Leaders of Tomorrow and the Leadership focus group.
Reinventing leadership
We are working to offer you a series of tools that will enhance your leadership abilities. Coming soon!
Contact us
Please contact us if you require further information. We’re here to help!
Correo: institutodeliderazgo@tec.mx
Whatsapp: +52 1 81 2352 1119