Helderberg Village Retirement Estate
Maturity Level
Transformational leadership is a style of
leadership where a leader works with teams
to identify needed change, creating a vision
to guide the change through inspiration,
and executing the change in tandem with
committed members of a group.
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Those who make an effort to understand the needs and issues
of all the major stakeholders on the estate and other external
parties with power to disrupt the smooth running and general
ambience of the estate. They understand the demographics in the
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estate (age, gender, children, sporting interests, club membership,
etc.). They also understand that there are other parties who can
influence the quality of life on the estate, like management and The challenge is to develop technically competent directors by
staff, affiliated clubs, neighbours, other estates close by, the increasing their understanding and awareness of the needs
municipality or other local authorities, the provincial authorities of all relevant stakeholders – for example, by conducting a
(roads, etc.), even Community Schemes Ombud Service (CSOS)! formal stakeholder analysis – and then encouraging balanced
decisions with a long-term focus that will benefit all the relevant
They try to serve all stakeholders by taking their collective interests
stakeholders.
and issues into account, and they seek balanced decisions when
deciding on matters that will affect those stakeholders. They Janssen Davies, Chairperson White River Country Estate
strive for win-win solutions and avoid zero-sum games where and Berg En Dal Estate
one wins and others lose. They will not be influenced by internal
pressure groups but strive to be fair to all. They subjugate their
own narrow interest and needs in the interest of the majority.
Maturity Level
5
Once in a while an estate is fortunate to have a director who can
take the board and the estate to favourable places that they would
not have imagined or would not have got to on their own without
him/her. This is the transformational leader who has achieved
Maturity Level 4 and holds a long-term focus and strives for best
practice and visionary leadership so that everybody involved ends
up in beneficial positions not previously imagined or understood.
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