Leading Through Changing Times
The Journey To Sustainable Success
There are three change criteria to achieving a vibrant organizational vision:
- Knowing where we are
- Knowing where we are going
- Knowing what it will look
like
when we arrive.
Planning for change is like mapping a travel itinery over dry land.
Undertaking the journey is like being at sea, no land in sight and with very questionable maps!!
Your leaders are in charge of this journey. Not just the captain, but every member that is responsible for a crucial aspect to the journey.
Sailing purposefully requires a compass, one eye on the horizon, the other on the constantly changing circumstances of sea and sky, negotiation of trade winds, people and purpose.
Leaders undertake constant dynamic revision taking everyone with them.
If your organizational strategy is the map of the journey, how do your leaders identify the right features for success when they are out of sight of land?
As well as the technical training to do the job, leaders need to learn to find creative responses inspired by whatever is around them at present and in relationship to everyone concerned.
Crucially, the skills that achieved advancement to new roles are often not the same leadership skills required in the new role, whether at senior executive or board level.
Leadership presence releases the natural internal compass
within executives to find the best direction in each moment.