Gerhard van Rensburg PhD

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Gerhard van Rensburg Quick Facts

Main Areas: Leadership
Best Sellers: The Leadership Challenge in Africa
Career Focus: Leadership development and coaching Business Owner
Affiliation: The Da Vinci Institute, The Coaching Centre, Lumus

Dr Gerhard van Rensburg has been practicing as a full-time leadership and executive coach since 2002. His coaching focus is the development of leadership. He published two leadership books, The Leadership Challenge in Africa, and Leadership Thoughts. He strongly believes that we need to be lifelong learners in the areas of our vision, character and relationships. Growth in these areas form the foundation to our career and leadership growth. His approach in coaching is to partner with people as a facilitator of their growth, particularly as leaders in the workplace – thereby optimizing potential and positive results. In doing so he integrates the various relevant contexts and perspectives.

He developed an online leadership development program in 2012/3 named '32 Leadership Principles to unlock your potential' (www.newlead.co.za.)

Other Programs & Highlights

The 32 Leadership Principles Online Development Program is available at www.newlead.co.za. The program is developed to help you on your journey in three main areas, your inner focus, your future focus and your focus on others. The future focus and focus on others is more specific to the world of work. The material of the program will help you to grow as a person and as a leader. The journey takes the form of a weekly module – or a food-for-thought-pack to carry with you during the week. The format is an introduction of one of the 32 leadership topics, then an illustration which can be a story or image or diagram. Then to help you in your reflection there are some questions to answer or a self-assessment exercise. Then follows a focus thought for the week or a small assignment to help you to experience the learning in the week to come. At the end of the week you record your experiences and learnings.

In addition a blog facility enhances learning as participants share their experiences and thoughts. A confidential journal facility is also included.

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Gerhard van Rensburg

Leaders are only credible and leadership only effective if it is authentic and from within. The authority of a leader depends on the level to which he/she internalises and then lives the principles of leadership. The commitment to a leadership principle precedes working on the particular competence relating to it.

Leadership and self-development is about the exploration of new things of value and meaning. It is to make discoveries that make us wiser, more effective and that enrich our lives.

Leaders stand or fall by their ability to lead in three fundamental areas: Leading self, leading change and leading others. If the leader is poor in any one area, his effectiveness overall is severely impeded. The three key questions to determine leadership is:

Does the person model leadership?
Does the person lead effective change?
Do people follow the person willingly and energetically?

Getting Started With Gerhard van Rensburg

My website www.newlead.co.za provides a comprehensive collection of my writings, products, work and description of my background and work with clients.