“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but 'we' gets the credit.... This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”
Peter Drucker
Transforming Your Leadership
Executive Skillworks brings strategic, proven and practical solutions that upgrade motivated and successful executives to a high performing leadership platform.
The true centerline for successfully generating and maintaining great leadership in today’s organizations must be the transformation of an executive’s underlying “operating system” of beliefs. Such a transformation cannot be achieved through traditional competency building programs. Certainly competency development is important yet when the executive engages in a process that supports this upgrade to a “new platform” - leadership competencies will begin to naturally “boot up” during the process and take form in their actions.
The primary shift to this leadership mindset involves:
- First, challenging and retiring a set of outdated beliefs and strategies that are frequently more reactive and focused primarily on problem resolution.
- Second, Accepting and integrating a new set of assumptions that foster creativity and an outcome focused that supports the manifestation of leadership qualities.
Some examples of this shift include moving from:
- A tactical “get it done now” focus towards a passion for aligning your commitments and actions with what is most valuable to achieve.
- The need to get things done your way towards believing in the value of creating an environment that inspires shared ownership and accountability with your people for key results.
- The need for your decision making being led by personally held opinions towards the desire to engage in authentic, courageous conversations that develop mutual decisions that best support the desired outcomes.
- The need to stay comfortable doing things the same way towards a desire to regularly challenge the status quo so you can improve your approach and results.
Executive Skillworks provides the consulting as well as deploys the following proven and complete system that will develop leaders who are accountable for big results.
Executive Skillworks' Leadership Development Process
(click each stage of process to view more details]
Guaranteeing Results and Sustainability
The ingredients necessary for the sustainable development of leadership include:
- A commitment from the top of the organization that provides a backbone of support for the program and includes measures of success.
- Strong alignment between your organization’s vision, mission and core objectives and those for your leadership development program.
- A proven development process that has a track record of generating real leadership transformation delivered by seasoned practitioners.
- An openness in your leaders that facilitates full participation and a willingness to learn.
- A means for measuring the progress of leadership development and its impact on key organizational results.
With these elements in place a committed organization will succeed in enhancing the quality of its leadership.
Contact Us – to schedule a no obligation consultation if you are ready to take your “leadership culture” to the next level. Through this and ensuing conversations we are confident we can customize our proven approach to support you with your desired outcomes.
