Leadership Metaphor Explorer Facilitator's Guide

Using Leadership Metaphor Explorer

Leadership Metaphor Explorer can be used in any number of ways and with all kinds of people. Although it’s most commonly applied in small groups of leaders who use it to talk about their work and their future development, there are few limits to its use.

Later in this guide we present a number of applications and examples at societal, organizational, group, and individual levels. Before we go there, let’s review some of the possibilities when you consider the size of the group, the audience of which it’s composed, and the global reach of today’s working groups.

Group size. Leadership Metaphor Explorer can be used with a group of any size. It’s useful for individual self-reflection, for looking at one’s own leadership ...