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Leadership Development Training Essential For Increased Productivity
Leadership development program that is tied to business results is essential for companies that wish to boost their ability to innovate and execute as a competitive strength.
(PRWEB) September 22, 2005 -- “Leadership development that is tied to business results is essential for companies that wish to boost their ability to innovate and execute as a competitive strength,” states Anne Miller, Managing Director of A Miller & Associates.
A Miller & Associates provides executive team alignment, leadership development, strategy innovation and executive coaching services to clients such as Coca Cola, Hewlett Packard and Royal Dutch Shell.
“We have found that some of the biggest obstacles to corporations declaring and realizing bold ambitions – and to leaders acting consistent with their potential – can be found in our deep rooted behaviors of what we think is possible and safe in the corporate context.”
Anne and her colleagues base all their work on the premise that it is far “easier to act our way into a new way of thinking, than to think our way into a new way of acting.”
“One of the most successful programs for breaking down old ways of working and developing leaders while delivering bold results is our Action Lab. The Action Lab™ is typically used for trying out radical strategies, developing new ways of working, creating new commercial ventures or reinventing industry practices.”
The Action Lab can be a series of 1-3 day workshops or a dedicated full time commitment over 3-4 weeks depending on the needs and goals of the company.
When used for delivering major change inside a corporation, the Action Lab leadership program typically involves a cross-functional team drawn from all levels of the company - sometimes including customers, suppliers and even competitors. For early stage companies, it involves the founding team along with key partners, advisors and investors.
“Although the Action Lab initially generates a great deal of pressure, it has been found to create breakthroughs to issues thought to be intractable. The outcome then becomes a compelling example for subsequent opportunities,” continues Miller.
To achieve this type of corporate success several principles are fundamental to the design:
1: Create an environment that is safe enough to promote experimentation and learning but intense enough to foster a change.
The key here is to keep the team focused on the challenge. Regulate any distress so that the group does not become dysfunctional and handle conflicts
2: Evoke new behavior patterns using a compelling and real-life experience to stress the social order of the entire team that needs to work together and force team members to think outside of their comfort zone.
3: Get to the bottom of what really drives collective action by uncovering the "ground truth" the real business issues and commitments that exist when all the unspoken layers of assumptions are peeled away.
4: Foster a discontinuity in leadership approaches as a prerequisite for achieving a discontinuity in performance.
In the Action Lab setting team participants should not look to management for the answers but feel they have the freedom to offer their own answers to issues.”
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