Leadership in Action: A Question of Leadership—What are the Best Ways to Develop Socially Responsible Leaders?

A QUESTION of LEADERSHIP

RUDI PLETTINX

Plettinx is managing director of CCL's European operations, based in Brussels. He previously was a program director for Management Centre Europe, working with major international companies on their strategic learning needs.

I think social responsibility has always been part of what CCL teaches, although the term itself has entered business language only recently. Social responsibility is implicit in CCL's philosophy that if you change individuals, you can change organizations, and if you change organizations, you can change society.

All of CCL's educational programs focus on self-awareness as the stepping stone to development, and a major part of self-awareness is getting in touch with some basic values ...