Leading Effectively e-Newsletter - March 2005 Issue
Becoming a Strategic Leader
Have you been told you need to be "more strategic" in your current job or to get a promotion? Is your organization faltering when it comes to connecting the vision and mission with the daily demands of the work? Do you struggle to balance short-term and long-term pressures? These are some of the challenges managers commonly face.
In this issue of Leading Effectively, based on the new CCL publication Becoming a Strategic Leader: Your Role in Your Organization's Enduring Success, we start you on the path to becoming a more strategic leader. We'll follow up with a future issue that offers additional insight into how you can strengthen your ability to lead strategically and foster strategic leadership in your teams and organizations.
Strategic Leadership: Beyond Setting Direction
Much is made of the importance of strategy in today's organizations. Even so, managers and executives often struggle to move strategy beyond setting direction or goals and toward an on-going process of transforming and sustaining the organization. The missing piece is strategic leadership say CCL's Kate Beatty and Rich Hughes. (more... )
Making Strategic Leadership Work
Overcoming the challenges posed by a lack of strategic clarity and focus, poorly aligned tactics and limited perspective is no easy task. The key to implementing strategic leadership is to sharpen your skills in the areas of strategic thinking, strategic acting and strategic influencing. (more... )
Strategy as a Learning Process
In the role of strategic leader, you are likely to be seen as a change agent. But strategic leadership is more than just introducing change after change. Effective leaders make strategic changes that progressively build on each other. To do this, organizations need to understand strategy as a learning process. (more... )
Culture Clues: Does Your Organization Foster Strategic Leadership?
Are some organizations better suited for strategic leadership? Should certain conditions be met? Here, we offer some signs that your organizational culture supports strategic leadership, as well as characteristics that hinder it. (more... )
Monday Morning Tools: Question It
All the leaders in an organization have the potential to make an impact in their own spheres of influence. But how to begin? "One of the best ways to build capacity for strategic leadership is by asking probing questions," says CCL's Kate Beatty. (more... )
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February Poll Results
In our February 2005 Leading Effectively e-Newsletter, readers were invited to participate in CCL's Emerging Leaders research study. A total of 100 individuals completed the survey. (more...)
CCL Program Spotlight: Coaching for Development
By applying the Center's developmental framework of assessment, challenge and support and working in small groups with a feedback coach, participants learn to coach others for sustainable results. The program emphasizes building the coaching relationship to more effectively develop others, strengthen leadership and enhance a climate of learning.
During this program, participants:
- Acquire new coaching skills that can immediately be applied back on the job.
- Learn the importance and impact of managing the coaching relationship.
- Gain self-awareness of personal preferences and how those influence coaching outcomes.
- Build a results-driven development plan using a powerful peer coaching process facilitated by experienced CCL faculty.
- Increase understanding of others' personalities and learning styles to enhance coaching effectiveness.
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