‘Because every organisation needs healthy leadership’ is our strap line: we are passionate about supporting leaders so that they and their teams can be more effective, and so that their organisations can be more successful. We believe that healthy leadership is about improving individual and organisational performance.
We suggest that there are 3 key components of healthy leadership:
1.Establishing direction and climate
This is a very sad picture! But it shows so well that if leaders don’t know where they are going, it will end badly! It is impossible to engage others successfully without a clear vision and focus, and without establishing a clear direction for everyone to follow. Leaders need to engage others througout their organisation through high quality interactions: people like conversations and they like to be listened to, as well as informed and kept in the loop.
2. Sustaining implementation
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle
Do you have what it takes to achieve and sustain success? You can have a great vision, and great engagement in the organisation, but these will only take you so far. You will also need the right reinforcement mechanisms, capabilities, learning processes and coordination. Top performing organisations follow through on their vision: healthy leaders do what they say they will do.
3. Leading self and others well
“Teamship is just as important as leadership, if not more so.”
Healthy leadership is also about building healthy teamship in and around organisations: teams characterized by high levels of trust, mastery of conflict, commitment to each other and the vision and accountability for results. Healthy leaders role-model this and will be inspiring, soulful and appreciative. Leaders and their teams are linked together, and integral to the leadership of the organisation.
We believe that leaders who deliberately focus on improvements in these three areas will be modelling healthy leadership, and giving their organisations the best chance for success.
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