Effective leadership begins with the moral clarity to ensure effective governance practice between the board and the Executive team and other key stakeholders.
Assuming effective governance practice are in place, it then falls to the CEO to establish a system of leadership that enables the organisation to deliver on its strategy while creating an environment that inspires all staff and key stakeholders to be intrinsically motivated.
With our combined 50 years of experience in leadership work, we have learned that there are some defining principles of organisations who have effective leadership systems;
- Leadership is viewed as an organisational asset
- Leaders at all levels have the requisite intellectual capability, technical & relationship skills as well as aligned values to add value to the leadership role and the organisation
- Leaders at all levels treat all staff with trust and fairness
- Leaders at all levels respect the psychological contract that exists between the organisation and employees (regardless of their employment status)
- Leaders at all levels see accountability as two-way concept where employees are expected to give their best and leaders provide their team members with regular feedback and coaching regarding their performance
- It is the job of leaders to help make employees more effective at their work
- Leaders at all levels understand the difference between learning and development and make genuine efforts to improve individual and organisational capability
Unfortunately, the vast of leadership development efforts fail to add value to their organisatations.
Not only are most development initiatives a complete waste of time and money in themselves but they actually distract leaders from doing value-adding work.
Failure to extract value from leadership development efforts happens for a variety of reasons but primarily because of a lack of clear goals and value-adding measurement, insufficient consideration of the competitive landscape and translation to the organisational context.
Our approach to leadership development is based on the latest empirical research and our own proven methodologies to address these highlighted issues.
Clear Goals
Team Engagement
Competitive Translation
Connected Relationships
Context Ready
