Gerhard van Rensburg
PhD
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Leadership coach and development facilitator Expert
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.)
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Losing Weight As An Exercise In Personal Mastery
As body, mind and spirit, how we take care of our bodies is of no less importance than how we think and how we love. After all, we received only one ‘vehicle’ for our life journey here on earth and that is the body that we feel, and later see in the mirror, when we wake up in the morning. All our great mind and spiritual potential depends to some degree on the good condition of our health. We know it is true that good feelings about our bodies transfer to positive thinking and more healthy attitudes.
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Defining Conversations With Yourself
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage - Anais Ninr Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; Genius will not; Education will not. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent - Calvin Coolidge
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Our Free Will And Four Levels Of Satisfaction
Since we are born with the mental and psychological ability to make choices, our lives will be determined mostly by what we want to do with our freedom of choice.
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Relationships And Self Knowledge In Leadership
There are few things as sad as when a person discovers the importance of his relationships too late in life. Too late, because so many years were wasted on the wrong priorities, pursuing success in the workplace at all costs, being caught up in endless conflict, platonic relationships, jealousy, hatred, feelings of resentment and bitte ess. Too late because quality relationships need time and focused attention to grow and mature before bearing all the fruits of true happiness, contentment and gratitude.
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The Leader As Champion Of Morality
As a leader you can be a good administrator, a good manager, a good negotiator, a shrewd politician, an astute businessman or a good strategist. But do others see you as a leader with moral authority? And is it important?
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The Leader As Gardener
The art of the good gardener lies in his ability to learn and appreciate natural growth processes. The shift in our understanding of organizations since the days when engineers analyzed organizations as they analyzed machines for their efficiency is to understand that organizations are fundamentally living systems of human beings. As the potential for growth is in the seed, so it is present in the members of the organization individually and collectively.
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A Different Kind Of Leader
The modern day worker cannot be deceived with promises of quick and easy solutions and a perfect world. The challenges we face at work are multidimensional. They are complex and demanding of both our cognitive and our emotional and social intelligences. In addition, modern day life is fast-paced with relentless waves of change. In such a world, the quality of our work and our progress is more dependent on the ability to respond effectively to situations than it is to comply with rules, regulations and standards.
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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?
Contacting Gerhard van Rensburg
Dr Gerhard van Rensburg
Owner: New Era Leadership
Pretoria, South Africa
Cell: +27 83 4556513
How to get started
My website www.newlead.co.za provides a comprehensive collection of my writings, products, work and description of my background and work with clients.
Other 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.