Andrew Blum of The Trium Group, a solution provider at the marcus evans Corporate Learning & Talent Development Summit 2013, on leadership development.
Interview with: Andrew Blum, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner, The Trium Group
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Helping Leaders Execute Multi-Dimensional Strategies - Andrew Blum, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner, The Trium Group
1. Helping Leaders Execute Multi-Dimensional Strategies
The Trium Group helps leaders The next step is to equip people with a
“align, equip and mobilize their set of structured tools and processes to
organization” to deal with business bring that strategy to life. This means
challenges and execute multi- helping them develop metrics for their
dimensional strategies. Can you tell change initiatives and defining the
us more on each step and how they qualitative and quantitative objectives
need to be implemented? that the strategy will fulfill through its
execution. It is about moving it the
The first thing leaders have to do is strategy from plan to action.
make sure people are aligned around
their strategy. Not only must the Finally, mobilization is about getting the
strategy be the right one, but rest of the organization behind the
employees must understand it and plans. A classic weakness in most
Interview with: Andrew Blum, Chief connect to it emotionally. Additionally, strategies is failing to engage leaders at
Executive Officer and Managing leaders must distinguish between all organizational levels.
Partner, The Trium Group alignment and agreement. Agreement
means that everyone gets their way, The most successful strategy is one
but we know that is not possible in where all leaders truly understand the
Change is a continuous state. There today’s world. At Trium, we align strategy, declare their commitment and
isn’t going to be an endpoint at which organizations by creating shared take an active part in executing it.
everything is stable. Therefore, leaders understanding and commitment, even
must learn how to continually evolve though that means people won’t get all What do executives overlook in this
their strategies, their organizations and that they want. All strategies have trade- space?
their own thinking, according to Andrew offs, and alignment is about
Blum, Chief Executive Officer and acknowledging those trade-offs. The question of how to develop leaders
Managing Partner at The Trium Group. is always preceded by the question of
where the company is going and what
A solution provider company and capabilities will be needed. It is easy to
keynote speaker at the upcoming jump into building leadership
marcus evans Corporate Learning & competencies but these should always
Talent Development Summit 2013, have a clear connection to the strategy
in Atlanta, Georgia, April 28-30, Blum
discusses how the corporate learning
In the leadership of the business.
function can help leaders unlock their
potential and solve their toughest game, you have Leaders also tend to overlook the
development of people’s personal
business challenges. leadership vision. A lot of emphasis
What is the biggest challenge for
to start with goes to the strategic vision for the
company, but what about an employee’s
Corporate Learning and Talent
Development Officers today?
yourself and vision of themselves as a leader? In the
future, learning and development
Their biggest challenge is in helping your own executives are going to be tasked with
helping leaders create that vision and
their internal clients deal with align it to the company’s strategic
continuous change. It is not just periods
of transition anymore, but a series of
impact and vision.
them.
effectiveness In the leadership game, you have to
start with yourself and your own impact
as a leader
That is very difficult for some people to and effectiveness as a leader.
keep up with, so leaders have to be
flexible and stay in relationship with Corporate learning and
their teams, because in the absence of development has enormous potential
connection and shared purpose, to be the engine helping leaders evolve
changes are disruptive. as the organization’s strategy evolves.
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About The Trium Group
The Trium Group helps leaders align, equip and mobilize their organizations to solve complex problems and execute multi-
dimensional strategies. The firm specializes in large-scale transformation, new business and operating model development,
roadmapping restructuring and turnarounds, and the capability-building and culture change that must accompany such efforts.
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