What Leadership Is Not

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• Leadership is not management. Management is the efficient use of resources to achieve predetermined goals. Managers are measured on achieving outcomes within constraints of time, manpower, infrastructure, money, and technology. Management is always subordinated to those who set the objectives - the leaders. Management is about function, process, and order.

• Leadership is not a personality. Much research has gone into trying to find the personality traits that act as the key variable in excellent leadership.

• Leadership is not experience. Many examples exist of CEOs appointed on experience, only to drive companies into distress. Think GE.

• Leadership is not process. Models such as Situational Leadership, Eight Habits of Highly Successful Leaders, are based on simple process constructs. Yet they don’t create effective leaders.

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What Leadership Is

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• Leadership is certainty in the face of significant uncertainty. Good leaders have an uncanny ability to understand and interpret many variables and provide decisive guidance from very little information.

• Leadership is clarity. People give their trust and therefore subordination to those who can clearly and cohesively describe the future and how to get there.

• Leadership is reassurance. Every one of us operates from a different frame of reference and belief about survival and success. Truly great leaders make individuals feel relevant and valuable despite mutual interdependency.

• Leadership is systems. Every collective human endeavor depends on the commitment and coordination of capabilities in a system of ever-changing relationships. Truly great leaders design and deploy systems that enable the whole to achieve more than the parts. They constantly triage the competitive and ever-changing external environment. They do not hesitate to re-configure, re-align and re-purpose systems and functions to ensure ongoing success.

• Leadership is about conflict and disorder. Truly great leaders are exceptional at constantly resolving conflicts in their quest for success amongst powerplays, constraints, partisan priorities and fragile alliances.

 

The 4 Core Capabilities

 

These are the 4 most important capabilities that we focus on during the workshop. All 4 tie together in order to be a better and effective leader. This is what we will teach you to focus your efforts on when it comes to leading your team.

 

• Leveraging Tribes

• Resolving Conflicts

• Configuring Systems

• Relating to People

 

 

How much more successful do you believe that you and your organization can be if you were to resolve the most impactful and debilitating constraint in most organizations – leadership capability.

 

Its time for you to harness your untapped potential for excellence in your leadership effectiveness and performance.