Offerings

The Leadership Partnership

For general managers and divisional leaders stepping into enterprise leadership

You lead leaders, often as a general manager, divisional head or direct report to the executive team, and your remit now reaches well beyond your function. Perhaps the role has recently expanded, or you are preparing to join the executive table. This partnership develops the leadership capability, capacity and judgement the position calls for, so your leadership carries enterprise weight in every setting you find yourself in.

The Work

At this level your influence travels mostly through other leaders, and they take their cues from your leadership presence. The role asks you to turn enterprise strategy into a vision for your part of the organisation that people commit to. We work on the moments that define this layer: holding the line between executive intent and operational reality, and influencing upward and across where you have no formal authority.

The partnership also works with what the role asks of you inwardly. The strengths that built your career, whether deep expertise, a drive to deliver or a commitment to maintaining harmony, remain valuable. But when they begin to drive your responses, they can narrow how you lead and keep you anchored at the functional level. We work with the patterns that surface under pressure and the identity formed around being the one who knows, delivers or keeps everyone onside. The work draws on the eight vertical capacities in the Arc of Leadership Consciousness, with particular emphasis on Self as Instrument, Internal Coherence and Systemic Seeing.

Structure

Six to nine months, shaped around your live remit. At the outset we agree with you and your sponsor the measures the work will be held to, informed by the views of those you work with most closely. Regular sessions work across your live leadership situations and the inner patterns behind them, with access between sessions, and at the close we review progress against the agreed measures. This offering is available for individuals or for groups of leaders.

Outcomes

In your leadership

  • ·You discern the effect your leadership presence has on those around you, and use it with intent
  • ·You stay coherent and steady under pressure and your decisions reflect the whole of the situation in front of you
  • ·You see the wider system your division sits within, and act on the levers and patterns that generate results across it

In performance

  • ·Your division moves with a shared vision and your leaders align their own priorities to it
  • ·Your division delivers against its commitments more consistently, with fewer surprises reaching the executive team
  • ·Your direct reports take full ownership of results, freeing your time to extend your influence across the enterprise
  • ·You become a ready successor for an executive role, reducing the organisation’s succession risk

Individual development work often follows group development, when the understanding is in place and the role is asking for more.

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