Dr. Thomas Dullien

A distributed model of leadership is based upon a mutual promise towards capacity building and talent management. It has a number of key features:1. Distributed leadership is primarily concerned with improving the effectiveness of others’ competencies, based on their strengths. Competencies are behaviors that encompass the knowledge, skills, and attributes required for successful performance. In addition to intelligences and aptitudes, the underlying characteristics of a person, such as traits, habits, motives, social roles, and self-image, as well as the environment around them, enable a person to deliver superior performance in a given job, role, or situation.2. Distributed leadership can only be promoted; it cannot be mandated. This is the differentiator between performance management and the talent development (above) that increases its effectiveness and not just its efficiency. At the core is the free flow of all possible information within the con-text of the organizational culture and its vision.3. Distributed leadership is inclusive and implies broad based involvement in leadership practices.4. Distributed leadership does not mean everybody leads but rather that everybody has the potential to lead, at some time.5. Distributed leadership occurs in various patterns, there is no blueprint.6. Distributed leadership requires deep trust and reciprocal support.Specialties: Business: Human Relations Management, Casino Management, Country Club Management, Hospitality Management.Develop_mentoring: Leadership Development, Organizational Behaviorism, Organization Development, Instructional Design.Teaching: Business Management and Leadership, Organization Development, Casino Management, Human Resources, Talent Development, Food & Beverage Operations.