Shaping the Future Program – Employing Multidimensional Leadership
Our experience
Over the past twenty years of working with senior leaders, managers and teams we have seen more complex, adaptive, interlocking human and social systems develop. Senior leaders and their teams in organisations are challenged by complex issues, changing directions and increasing workloads and need to develop sustainable solutions that deliver against their most important priorities.
In response we have designed this program to help leaders take a multidimensional approach to shape a meaningful, resilient and sustainable future. The focus of this program is aligning an organisation at all levels – spiritually, politically, culturally, socially, and structurally.
In this program our focus is on four main areas
Supporting leadership in establishing direction. This is achieved through a series of well facilitated strategic interventions with senior leaders and their teams. These are co-designed to clarify purpose and direction while taking into account current situations, priorities and desired business outcomes. Our processes are designed to increase awareness and reveal underlying pivotal opportunities to effect more sustainable change and organisational resilience. The outcome is the establishment of clear and strong strategic intent.
Building leadership and team capacity. Based on the stronger strategic intent, we are able to educate and support leadership and management as they embrace this preferred new direction and help them to turn it into results on the ground that deliver desired outcomes. The aim of this work is to establish a culture of shared leadership by designing training, workshops, facilitating business planning meetings and supporting leaders and teams as they try new things. The learning is transformational and sustained. The outcomes are the business outcomes. We tailor the learning to deliver against negotiated business cases with senior leadership.
Individual health and well-being. As results are ultimately achieved through people, our work develops each individual’s capacity to care for themselves, develop good work life balance and live in integrity. That is, to learn more who they are, what their strengths are, where they need support and to orient their lives around that.
Cultural change and resilience. Developing and shaping your organisational culture to reflect your new priorities and behaviours is essential if you are to sustain new directions and priorities. This is important work for leaders where commitment and motivation are largely influenced by the pervading culture. Resilience comes from a congruent set of beliefs and a personal commitment to the work being performed and is influenced and informed by you as their leader.
The Human Dimension Model for Multidimensional Leadership
The main benefit of this program is gaining a multidimensional perspective of your situation that will allow you, and your organisation, to build identity, resilience and sustainability within the context of complex issues and change agendas. Essential to this outcome is the Human Dimension Model for Multidimensional Leadership.
The Human Dimension Model for Multidimensional Leadership underpins this program, or series of negotiated outcome-focused interventions, and will help you solve your most pressing problems. A robust coaching approach is employed that will support, facilitate and catalyse deeper thinking, leadership effectiveness and organisational change.
Time and ‘head space’ is devoted to thinking, learning and working collaboratively with you, your colleagues and key stakeholders in order to identify and access collective wisdom and develop different mindsets that equip you to solve complex business and people issues. This program schedules, maintains and generates continuity and focus over a period of time to deliver required results.
This program employs an effective and unique (to THD) way of framing and modelling a situation developed out of our collective experience and approaches to improving leadership and catalysing organisational change over the past three decades.
The spiritual dimension focuses on the high-level aspirations and purpose of your organisation, the discovery of soul and natural order particular to the discipline your organisation represents, and having it expressed through the hearts and minds of your people and the meaningful contributions they make. Aspiration and purpose constitute the animating forces behind political endeavour and cultural expression.
The social dimension emphasises an understanding of the relationship between your people and your organisation, and focuses on aligning individual and collective will, wisdom and emotion with the aspirations and purpose of the organisation.
The structural dimension champions an evolving pattern of well-thought-out formal and informal relationships that, when properly designed, differentiated and integrated, will better accommodate both collective goals and individual differences in a flexible and resilient manner.
How will this approach help?
The Shaping the Future interventions will provide you as a leader with a multidimensional way of understanding your situation. You will be able to:
- comprehensively analyse and respond strategically with greater effect;
- obtain deep insights into various complex challenges;
- have a sophisticated lens that provides new insight and meaning;
- map and navigate through complexity; and
- access tools for problem solving, decision making and getting things done.
Benefits and flow-on effects
Each solution is unique to each organisation based on thoughtful analysis, strategic conversations and scoping of the overall initiative. We work as co-designers and co-creators with you as our client. The program provides a strong results focus with outcomes pre-negotiated and evaluated at the conclusion of the program. We schedule, maintain and generate enough continuity and focus over a period of time to deliver required results. You, and your organisation, will build identity, resilience and sustainability within the context of complex issues and change agendas.
Typically, flow-on effects of this process include:
- The latent potential of people in your organisation is unlocked through processes of engagement and self-motivation leading to a culture of shared leadership.
- Teams and units overcome silo mentalities and develop a “one team” approach (collaborative and co-operative) and an ability to deal with competing interests, systems and politics constructively and effectively.
- Structure, systems and processes are upgraded or redesigned to serve the soul and purpose of the organisation; the right balance of flexibility and responsiveness is established.
- Organisationally, business relationships with external stakeholders and partners and your internal capacity to deliver are more aligned and effective.
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