We believe improvement is based on a growth mindset and a deep understanding of the current situation. We invite you to consider these questions, yourself and / or with your teams, and to reflect honestly on your current situation.
Strategic Leadership
Does your leadership community / department / organisation:
- Have a clear vision?
- Have a compelling purpose?
- Have shared values?
- Have strategic objectives?
- Have a clear and published strategy and does it say what you are going to focus on and actually DO to achieve your goals?
Performance Leadership
Does your leadership community / department / organisation::
- Have a robust and consistent performance management methodology across all areas and used by all leaders? Is it taught to new leaders?
- Have the disciplines to ensure everyone follows the methodology?
- Have cascaded measures with agreed targets that clearly flow up and down the levels of the organisation?
- Have all employees fully bought into the strategy, are they understanding exactly what they need to do to contribute and how they make a difference?
- Know quickly and easily where you are against all relevant measures?
- Know quickly and easily where there are issues / risks?
- Know quickly and easily what is being done to fix / mitigate?
People Leadership
Do the people who lead in your organisation:
- Know that all employees believe in and identify with your purpose?
- Know that all employees believe in and share in your vision?
- Know who the brightest stars are that have the potential to grow themselves and the organisation?
- Have a consistent and successful methodology for identifying talent inside and outside your organisation?
- Have a consistent and successful methodology for ensuring people reach their potential?
- Have agreed behaviours for all that are rigorously adhered to and discussed with individuals?
- Have agreed competencies that people know are expected of them in their roles?
- Have leaders that think strategically, perform to success, lead people and hold themselves to account?
Personal Leadership
Do the people who lead in your organisation:
- Know their leadership strengths and weaknesses?
- Actively work on self improvement in identified and focused areas?
- Know how to think strategically, perform to success, lead people and hold themselves to account?
- Seek support from a trusted network when they need it?
- Have a coach that will help them to see what they cannot see themselves?
- Have a culture of feedback? Of giving, listening carefully to, and acting on two way, non hierarchical feedback?
Outcome
If you have answered no to between 2-5 of these questions then you are on the right path, but however well you feel you are doing, you are not performing to the high level you could – your organisation is leaving money on the table
If you answered no to 6-14 of these questions then your organisation is some way from achieving all that it could – you could as easily fail as succeed
If you answered no to 15 or more of these questions then your organisation will in all likelihood fail completely at some point, or at least lose to the competition
The good news is that if you have answered no to some or even many of these questions, you can click here to see how our Learn : Lead TM leadership development methodology can help you. Alternatively contact us here or directly at info@asensys.co.uk