For more than 20 years now, Boris Grundl has been intensively engaged with the nature of human development. An inner calling became a profession. The profession became a vocation, which led to the founding of a leadership academy—now successfully transformed under the name "Grundl Leadership Institute."
As continuing education experts, we ensure that management teams leader , gain a deeper understanding of, and implement the profession of leader . For us, it's not just about training, but about genuine transformation that has an impact at all levels of the hierarchy. That is our strength. To ensure that this remains the case, we regularly review our raison d'être and ask ourselves the question: "What exactly is human development all about?"
Core of human development
For five years now, our experiences and intellectual efforts have increasingly focused on one concept— responsibility. We are now certain that a conscious approach to responsibility at the heart of human development. zest for responsibility when I experience meaning by taking responsibility within my sphere of influence.
We were astonished to discover that there was responsibility substantial research on the topic responsibility . No one had taken a deeper look at responsibility all its diversity over a longer period of time and published practical findings on the subject. We wanted to change that. So the path forward was clear to us. The idea for the Responsibility Index was born. In 2017, we responsibility more than 1,000 people on the topic responsibility , measuring the topic scientifically for the first time. It was exciting, but not always easy.
Measure social status
Previously, we asked ourselves how responsibility has responsibility been defined up to now. In everyday life and at work, responsibility is responsibility used intuitively and indiscriminately: we are responsible or irresponsible. We gravitate toward responsibility, call for it, and demand it. We take it on or pass it on. We possess it, face it head-on, or turn a blind eye to it. We admonish it, live up to it, or fail to do so. We transfer it or steal away from it...
Philosophy and Psychology
responsibility is generally understood responsibility behaving appropriately toward other people and institutions. In short, it always comes down to the question: Who is responsible to whom for what? Taking responsibility can be active or passive. Someone actively responsibility , seeks it out, takes it on, and delivers good results. Or someone passively waits until they are asked to do so.
In addition, the term is viewed differently by different disciplines. Philosophy takes a more normative perspective: Under what conditions can a person take responsibility something? What prerequisites must be met? Psychology raises the question of free will, but tends to refer to the ability to act or control one's actions. Here, the term responsibility refers responsibility to correct behavior. But what exactly guides people in choosing certain behaviors?
We're staying on the ball – Responsibility Index 2018
As you can see, the topic responsibility as complex as it is exciting. And we as an institute will of course stay on the ball! We will continue our research and gain new insights. For this reason, we responsibility a second survey on the topic responsibility this year—again surveying 1,000 people.
Now we can draw comparisons: Has the quality of responsibility in Germany changed? Improved? Deteriorated? We will share the results with you shortly. What we can already reveal is that there are some surprising, alarming, and encouraging findings!
If you, as a company, are now asking yourself about the quality of responsibility in your company and want to measure and improve it, we are happy to help. Get in touch with us!
In a free self-test, you can compare your own level of responsibility with the German average.
Your team at the Grundl Leadership Institute
P.S. You can find out more about the Responsibility Index at www.verantwortungsindex.de and in the following video, "About the study."
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