Taking organisations, teams, individuals and customers to new places
The reactive (and necessary) tasks of management are well
covered in most organisations. Within those organisations many
people have developed highly evolved coping strategies for
dealing with the day-to-day pressures and workload. Few of
those people are pro-actively engaged in defining, creating,
or implementing the kind of strategies that will not only
deliver the today, but also deliver the tomorrow. It’s a poor
excuse to be too busy to become a better organisation. The
catalyst for this new way of thinking (paradigm) is
Leadership.
©Predaptive 2002-08
Leadership is about the taking of people, whether that’s large
or small numbers (it might mean just yourself!), and
customers, markets and products to new places. With this
pro-active, highly accountable, change orientated mind-set organisations can take greater control of their external and
internal environments.
However, many organisations struggle to create this
constituency of leaders. Why is this? They focus on it being:
- A seniority thing (just for Directors),
- A training thing, without examining the cultural context,
- An exhortation thing, by motivating (telling?) managers (not
the wider population), to lead more, that they will. In our
experience, they don’t, they simply give their superiors all
the reasons why they can’t lead more, creating a dialogue of
the deaf.
At Predaptive, we believe that leadership focus can only be
achieved when the organisation has a clear view of what their
leadership expectations are, and how that expectation is
expressed. For instance, how explicitly is leadership embedded
in appraisals, reward and recognition, competencies, job
descriptions etc?
To get at these issues in more detail we at Predaptive use our 4SLeadership™ process.
One of the other key benefits of a leadership focus is the
increased capability for coaching. Leaders like to coach,
others seeing role model behaviour become suggestible and keen
to be coached. Again effective coaching is more than just
skills based training. To see how much more go to Total Coaching™.
All of these leadership initiatives can be supported by a
Predaptive secure Client Extranet, designed using
Technology
Enabled People Engagement (TEPE). They are ideal for
facilitating coaching or supporting the initiative with highly
effective blended learning programmes.
To find out how Predaptive can help your organisation, please
contact one of our Customer Business Managers on:
T: +44 (0)1789 734333
E: info@predaptive.com
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