Visit http://www.leaderhipbydesign.co.nz for more free information on leadership
The senior leader fountain of all wisdom dispenses judgements and decisions from on high. Does this fit your paradigm of a leader ? after all a leader needs followers don't they?
I am sure if I asked you here how important is leadership to your organizations I am sure most of you would comment on increased competition,
global volatility and uncertainty,
Low levels of engagement
Need for innovation etc as justifications for why leadership was so important certainly we invest billions globally on developing leadership capability. I wonder what we are getting back in return?
Because currently there is a significant disconnect about what we know and talk about as leadership and what we see happening in our organizations
Here are four leadership trends that provide some direction on where you should think about focusing your leadership development.
3. The CIPD Annual Survey Report 2012
Nearly three-quarters (72 per cent)
of organisations in England
reported a deficit of management
and leadership skills.
4. 2008 Global Survey by Egon Zehnder
Nearly six in 10 global leaders
consider a lack of leadership a
major cause of their company’s
inability to deal with business
change
5. Leadership Impact
Leadership Management
The art of influencing others to achieve The science of obtaining
Definition their maximum performance, and to results through the efforts
accomplish any task or objective of others
Produce constructive or adaptive change Produce consistency and
Objective
order
Influence Control
6. 4 Leadership Trends
Sustainability
Complexity Disconnection Collaboration
Speed Interruptions Authenticity Fitness
Volatility Virtual Teams Stakeholders Well being
Complex Gaps Better Resilience
between conversations
Change
Managers Innovation
9. Research by Gloria Mark (reported in The New
York Times Magazine in October 2005
concluded:
11 minutes
25 minutes
10. The 2000 U.S. Census estimated that the
baby boomer generation :83 million
who would started leaving in 2004
Expertise that is most likely to be lost
institutional vision,
followed by knowledge,
Internal and external personal networks,
skills and historical context.
11. “There’s nothing more demoralizing than a leader who
can’t clearly articulate why we’re doing what we’re
doing.” James Kouzes and Barry Posner
12. Collaboration
Authenticity – the willingness of a leader
to be himself rather than a remote, unapproachable
manager – is one skill that
can help foster a collaborative workplace.
13. Stephen Covey, author of Seven
Habits of Highly Effective People
“Effective leadership is the only
competitive advantage that will
endure.
That's because leadership has two
sides - what a person is (character)
and what a person does
(competence)."
15. Research shows that effective leadership and
regular exercise are strongly linked. (European CEO,
December 2006).
Executives who exercise are rated
significantly higher by their co-workers on
their leadership effectiveness than non-
exercisers.
In addition to the health benefits, exercisers
score better than non-exercisers in all
leadership categories including organization,
credibility, leading others and authenticity
16. But the trend most often mentioned
is the shift from
autocratic style to one
that’s more participative.
Leaders predict that future
success will depend on the
ability to be
collaborative
and to focus on the team
rather than the individual.
Does this fit your paradigm of a leader After all a leader needs followers don’t they?High status, fountain of all wisdom I am sure if I asked you here how important is leadership to your organisations I am sure most of you would comment on increased competition global volatility and uncertainty Low levels of engagement Need for innovate etc as justifications for why leadership was important It is an important question Because currently there is a significant disconnect about what we know and talk about as leadership and what we see happening inoprganisationsLet me explain what I mean •According to the University of Lancasterestimated annual global spend on management and leadership development of $36 -$60 billion The just-released 2012 Bersin & Associates Leadership Development Factbook® shows that U.S. companies have increased leadership development spending 14 percent over 2011 levels to an estimated $13.6 billion in 2012.
A recent Survey by the CIPD in the UK found that 72% of organisations had deficits of management and leadership skillsOr this private sector turnover data as shared by Mercer in October 2011: In 2012, 32% of employees are "planning on leaving" their employers, vs 19% two years ago.Only 55% of employees believe their employer is a sound "long term" place to work vs. 65% over the last three years.People under the age of 35 are twice as likely to be looking for new work as older workers.----Mercer October 2011Goal engagement scores Aon Hewitt plummeted to 56% in 2010 now showing a bit of a comeback
A global survey in 2008 found that 60% of Senior Leaders considered a lack of leadership to be holding back their companies ability to change So there is an understanding of the criticaloty of impirtance in investing in leadership capability building but with somewhat mixed results
Just briefly I am in the camp that all organisations need an appropriate balance between management and leadership It is horses for courses Right now most organisations I come into contact with need more of both
So hee are my 4 key fuure trendsComplexity Disconnection Collaboration and Sustainability
Speed VolatitlityComplexity Change Theodore Modis, a physicist, once predicted that we will face the equivalent of all themilestones of the 20th century – world wars, creation of the automobile, sequencingof DNA, rise of the Internet, etc. – in a single week in the year 2025. Modis arguedthat both the breadth and intensity of change will continue to increase at alarming levels.Is leadership truly becoming more complex?Generally, the top factors listed 2010 CCL survey were internal changes to the organization, market dynamics, a shortage of talent, andGlobalizationRAD spending fell in 2007 for the first time in 18 years rebounded in 2009 growth of 9.3%Part of that response is a surge in efforts in innovation looking for the next big thing The rise of the Chief Innovations Officer Ledershipimlications in identifying and nuturngtalend and creating open cultures and oportunitis for thinking and sharing of ideas and a capoacityfrexpereiment and failure
I WANT TO TALK ABOUT 3 THINGS InterruptionsVirtual TeamsGaps between Managers
Loss of experienced managers and institutional knowledge
Creating guidelines for when and how to communicate.Designing ways for the team to document and store its knowledge in acentral location.Utilizing a variety of collaborative technologies whenever possible.Creating a dispersed-team communication planner to aid in prioritizing the urgencyof messages and available communication choices.
And this is why ro 1 of the reasons spening on leadership skill dvelopment isn’t enough Lester Levy coined a term leadership mindset and it is related to character and disposition how we see the world A leadership mindsetilcudes :Optimistic rather than pessimistic Solutions rather than problem based Agile rather than fixed Inquisitive rather than accepting Courageous rather than timid Self aware rather than self-denial Comfortable with ambiguity