21st Century Leadership Challenge
Evolve. Further. Faster.
The Problem/Opportunity:
As the world becomes more complex, businesses are recognising the need to be able to respond better and faster. The need to continually evolve is known. Improvement and Innovation through people and process is key.
What we have found from working with many organisations and our research in the field is that there’s a major gap between the results their improvement interventions deliver and the results the organisation actually needs. We see organisations drive improvements with key change catalysts. Pockets of excellence emerge. Yet when focus shifts progress stops. Teams revert to old ways of working. Silos build, collaboration stops. The enterprise becomes misaligned. People become overwhelmed and overworked. Performance drops.
The Solution
Businesses need to overcome this 21st Century challenge. Business leaders need to foster deeper learning. They need to drive continuous improvement in every aspect within their organisation.
Some see this as a pure capability issue. We experience it's both a capability (knowledge and skill) and the capacity (the ability to apply that knowledge under pressure).
We have developed a set of leadership practices for all levels of leaders to adopt that tackles this knowledge vs doing gap head on.
Our Lean Practices are built on the concept of Lean and have been developed to embed best practice thinking and behaviour. Making these practices a habit will:
Expand thinking
Change conditioned behaviours
Unite the team behind a common purpose
Increase engagement and ownership around exploring new ways of working
Create the commitment and drive to raise performance
Personal Transformation
Conceptually “Lean” is common sense, however not common practice. We have found you need uncommon discipline to apply lean thinking and transform your behaviours, especially when under pressure. Making things stick is the holy grail, to think past the short terms wins requires a deep commitment to personal transformation.
We are here to get under your skin and make this transformation real. To make it stick. To get the changes you desire.
Actions:
Do you resonate with the problem statement?
If so, have you thought about whether its a capability or a capacity issue, or both?
What could you do to ensure your improvements actually change the cultural fabric of your organisation so that results last?
