John Kotter
Our mission at Executive Skillworks is to support organizations in transforming their leadership so that they can achieve success and fulfillment in our times.
Today’s fast paced global-technical business environment is challenging many organizations to regularly reexamine their approaches to their business and market. Most would agree we live in increasingly ambiguous times. To succeed, today’s organizations must be able to generate and lead cultures that are more creative and nimble in meeting their client’s most pressing needs. An organization’s ability to build such cultures is dependent on the quality of their leadership population. A high quality creative leadership population is strategic, results-focused, proactive, people oriented and cares deeply about the value it is generating.
Today’s research is also proving what we have always sensed – that great leaders make a measurable difference to the profitability and performance of their organizations. In fact, one compelling study shows that great leaders outperform good Leaders by a factor of two and poor leaders by a factor of six on key business outcome measures [1]. Further, the research is showing that poor leadership costs organizations millions of dollars a year.
It has never been clearer - organizations serious about improving business results must invest in strengthening the capacity of their executives to lead! When an organization has strong leadership times of ambiguity lead to new opportunities. Without such leadership – times of ambiguity disrupt performance and ultimately threaten the survival of an organization.
Our focus at Executive Skillworks is to provide solutions that are: