ABSTRACT
This chapter considers alternative practices and strategies for how everyday endeavours can be considered relationally. Original applications to assist with the professional formation of leaders are described as learning activities that can have the effect of rehumanizing those involved. The chapter discusses ontological findings of relationships and relational leadership into the context of professional development and learning. Indeed, the relational sensibility, improvisation, is a reminder that a leader's practice is not a matter of following a script but rather a matter of decision-making while on the run and moving towards that which concerns them. A range of relational sensibilities have been identified in the context of relationships, professional practice and leadership including nous, attunement, tact, pedagogical thoughtfulness, improvisation, phronesis, resoluteness and moral judgement. These sensibilities are evident in phenomenological and hermeneutic analyses of everyday leadership experiences. Relational sensibilities appear to have an enduring ontological presence within leadership experiences.
