Leadership Excellence
In the 21st century workplace discontinuity, caused by the exponential growth of digital technology, is changing organizational and workplace reality and straining the skills and behaviors of traditional leadership. Our system guides you in shaping your managers and employees into an agile organization that will thrive in the challenging world of digital disruption.
Despite decades of books, blogs, seminars, conferences and TED talks about leadership, today few employees trust their leaders, employee engagement is continually shrinking, too many supervisors manage through fear, and a primary reason people quit their jobs is because of the poor management under which they work.
Never easy, leadership is growing ever more difficult as the exponential growth of technology changes not only the workplace but the very nature of work itself, and challenges the future existence of traditional hierarchical organizations.
In a time when the workplace is asking more of employees’ leaders in government and business are finding themselves in cultures of mediocrity characterized by little innovation, no sense of urgency and practically no accountability. The negative impact of these on the effectiveness and efficiency of any organization is obvious.
A New Kind
Amid this age of rapid change - both technical and social - traditional organizations are finding it difficult to keep up. A situation that will become severe, even existential, to many organizations if they fail to evolve from the concept of an organization as a machine that seeks stability in a predictable world to one that is a living organism, non-hierarchical, open, and inclusive. What is often referred to today as agile.
Successful evolution to an agile organization requires a new kind of leadership that moves away from a structural hierarchy, linear planning and control to one that is rooted in creativity and innovation, and embraces:
- Unequivocal Expectation That Every Person Will Treat Every Person at Work with Dignity and Respect
- Simple Rules
- Trust
- Truth Always
- Eliminating Fear
- Empowering Employees at the Organizations Edges
- Giving Employees Autonomy and Freedom
- Building from the Bottom Up
- Collective Intelligence
- Distributed Leadership
- Distributed Decision Making
- Self-Management
- Self-Organization
- Continuous Communication
- Expectation That New Ideas Will Be Forthcoming
- Continual Small-Scale Experimentation (“If It’s Legal and Won’t Kill Anybody, Give It a Go™”)
- Providing Employees Tools and ‘Real Time’ Information Needed to Make Timely, Informed Decisions
- Accountability
The Simple Essence of Leadership Excellence
Technological disruption is an irresistible force. Digital Transformation is not something any organization can delay pursuing or – worse – decide not to do at all. It requires a significant, intentional and strategic shift in the mindset of organization leaders and managers to accomplish. Without this, Digital Transformation will fail.
Our philosophy of Leadership Excellence incorporates all of this structured on the principle of common sense… something that is lacking in organizations today and somewhat of a challenge to reintroduce. It also sees leadership as coming from the middle of an organization… not the top. A Leadership-Centric Organization, if you will.
We have successfully accomplished this and would enjoy assisting your organization to do the same. If you are a business, we can help your company move into the digital world.
If you are a government organization, SATRDÉ™ can help you transform into an organization that provides “Service Uncharacteristic of Government ™”.
