Robin Clark’s Style and Approach to Leadership Robin Clark’s approach and style to leadership was: transformational. According to Black and Porter (2000), this approach motivates other individuals and groups to ignore self-interests and work towards the larger good of the organisation to achieve ‘significant accomplishments’, more than what they would thought possible. Dimensions of this approach includes: demonstrating idealised behaviour, by means of being a role model and encouraging a shared vision, and leading through inspiring visions and intellectual stimulation (Bass, 1990). Robin Clark demonstrates this throughout her work in which she envisioned what an ideal system would look like, wherein she was a pioneer in designing a system for maximum impact in the 1980-1990s (Clark & Burke, 1998). According to Spall (2002), Robin Clark visually equated a system design to a bell shaped curve, in which the group of children, young people and families who fall under the middle of the bell curve would be the centre of and the system should be designed around. It was envisioned that in this way, a standard system of care or program can offer maximum impact to the greatest number of individuals, and such a design does not ignore the needs of those at either end of the bell curve who may have more specialist needs (Spall, 2002). …show more content…
Robin Clark strongly advocated for multi systemic work and multi sector community strategies throughout the course of her career (Morton, Clark & Pead, 1999). This approach endeavoured to develop collaborative and systemic service provisions between agencies and systems for children and young people (Morton, Clark & Pead,