Our Approach

At Busara, we are committed to the development of leadership as a shared, relational process that exists at all levels of an organisation and society as a whole. Our approach to leadership goes beyond simply working with those with titles to working with all regardless of title or position. Our approach is:

  • Practical,
  • Creative, and
  • Collaborative.

We listen to and integrate our clients’ vast experience in finding practical solutions to their work challenges in a dynamic developing world. Our focus is on clients’ needs for practical solutions.

We adopt global best practices and an understanding of our African context to inform our work which is characterised by the following key elements:

  • 1. Emotional Intelligence
    We focus on self-awareness and emotional intelligence as critical elements of effective leadership.
  • 2. Transformation
    We go beyond leadership training events to leadership development as an ongoing process involving the transformation of the whole person.
  • 3. Ethics & Values
    We emphasise ethics and values as central to leadership.
  • 4. Everyone can be a Leader
    We seek to develop leadership at all levels of the organisation, believing that everyone can exercise effective leadership if provided with the right support and development.
  • 5. Action & Change
    We seek to bring about action and changed behaviour, not just knowledge acquisition.
  • 6. Learning From Work
    We provide people with opportunities to learn from their work rather than taking them away from their work to learn.
  • 7. Responsive Programmes
    We work closely with our clients in the design of our programmes to ensure that such programmes are responsive to their unique challenges, vision and mission.
  • 8. Ongoing Support
    We recognise that learning is a process, not an event.  We thus combine our training with ongoing support through coaching and follow-up engagements.