Innovative Leadership Means Energizing Your Strategic Thinking Skills

Strategic Leadership Means Applying Strategic Energy!

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Experience Enrichment!Experience Enrichment!

Domain Growth!Domain Growth!

Maturation Nourishment!Maturation Nourishment!

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Successful Strategic Leadership are:Successful Strategic Leadership are:

Three (3) of The Most Essential Ingredients Three (3) of The Most Essential Ingredients for...for...


By blending your leadership By blending your leadership skills, employee training and skills, employee training and strategic planning together, you strategic planning together, you can quickly and easily boost your can quickly and easily boost your business results and energize business results and energize performance improvements.performance improvements.

2005 Survey

1000 Managers

Strategic Planning &

Management Processes

By Linking HR Development

Efforts To:

Improved Business

Performance


UK Chartered Management

Institute (CMI)

revealed how organizations experiencerevealed how organizations experience


The real secret to being an The real secret to being an effective, critical, strategic or effective, critical, strategic or creative thinker in today's creative thinker in today's complex realities is complex realities is understanding the premise of understanding the premise of our model for technology.our model for technology.


As Peter F. Drucker pointed out in the Introduction to his landmark book entitled:

...beginning in July 1945, the model for all technology has been based upon,

Our understanding of "the biologic processes" occurring "in an organism" or within an ecological niche.


...further clarified this idea by explaining that, ...further clarified this idea by explaining that, those "processes are not organized aroundthose "processes are not organized aroundenergy in the physicist's meaning of the term"energy in the physicist's meaning of the term" but "they are organized around information."but "they are organized around information."

Dr. Peter F. Drucker


Therefore, any study of social energies will involve the processes of information importing, exporting, converting and absorbing needed to sustain the biological (such as, the life-replicating, life-giving, life-sustaining and life-consuming) forces at work within socially-based ecological niches and ecosystems.


How can organizational managers train, engage, advise & encourage

their people using the strategic plan as a guideline for making performance improvements?

How can organizational managers train, engage, advise & encourage

their people using the strategic plan as a guideline for making performance improvements?

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Usually we separate planning from training, however, wise leaders see our plans as a blueprint for enriching, growing

and nurturing the skills, attitudes and maturity of our people.

Enrich Their Experiences!Enrich Their Experiences!

Grow Their Domains!Grow Their Domains!

Nurture Their Maturity!Nurture Their Maturity!


Using Your Strategic Plans As Your Guideline To:Using Your Strategic Plans As Your Guideline To:

Making Performance Improvements Means...Making Performance Improvements Means...


Inertia is defined as the tendency for things to remain the same. When we get trapped by the draining energies of inertia, our efforts begin to fail or our plans become as stale and lifeless as pieces of old paper.

If you hope to break out of inertia's grip and your feelings of frustration or futility, you must turn your plans into opportunities to guide, develop and train your people to become those critically important “front-line” leaders you need them to be.

Step 1 Step 3 Goal!

Explain WHY the Plan was created that way

Step 2

Show HOW the Plan helps reveal the directions towards objectives

Describe WHAT their duties & roles will be for a very successful strategy & its Plan

Look WHEN they do the Plan to assess their ability, set-backs and chances for any improve-ments



By supervising their performance once every 2 weeks, you could help people develop specifically targeted plans for self-directed learning exercises, coaching-supervised practicums and instructor-led training coursework.

Enrich their experiences by improving their skills, boosting their expertise or by strengthening their confidence and bolstering their positive self-image!








How To Grow Their Domain!How To Grow Their Domain!We can use the strategic planning process itselfWe can use the strategic planning process itselfas an opportunity to generate energy andas an opportunity to generate energy anddistribute those energies throughout the organization.distribute those energies throughout the organization.

Those energies produced during the planningThose energies produced during the planningprocess should be identified, evaluated,process should be identified, evaluated,captured and directed towards the refinementcaptured and directed towards the refinementand execution of the plan.and execution of the plan.

Domain = "a field of action" or "a realm or range of authority, personal knowledge (or) responsibility"

Produces types of outcomes or results & impacts

"strategic energy" = information-generating action, knowledge artifact, a factor, force or influence

Creative or Innovative

Systems or Entrepreneurial

Social or Educational


Ent. Soc. Sys. Edu.C & I

perceiving perceiving new new things, things, looking at, looking at, trying or trying or doing doing things things differentlydifferently

approach-approach-ing or ing or offering offering ideas or ideas or objects in objects in new & new & different different waysways

designs, designs, analysis, analysis, operations operations or support or support processes processes that will that will facilitate facilitate advance-advance-mentsments

You can transform your strategic planning process and its improvements or execution into skills training & development exercises for any Domains.

Grow the domains, that range of actions, responsibilities & authorities, of your people, then hold them accountable for refining & supervising the plan!

involving involving teamwork, teamwork, collabora-collabora-tions, tions, forming forming networks, networks, partner-partner-ships or ships or alliancesalliances

training, training, develop-develop-ment, self-ment, self-directed directed learning or learning or leveraging leveraging human human capital capital assetsassets


C & I = Creative & Innovative; Ent = Entrepreneurial; Soc = Social; Sys = system; Edu = Educational







Stage 1 Stage 3 Goal!

Take Take responsibility responsibility & commit to & commit to staying the staying the coursecourse

Stage 2

Accept the Accept the ethical & ethical & honest honest authority of authority of others with-others with-out rancorout rancor

Admit your Admit your need for need for help, help, support or support or guidanceguidance

Act in Act in congruence congruence with your with your values, values, ethics and ethics and moralsmorals



Use the objectives of your strategic plans as Use the objectives of your strategic plans as your guideline and blueprint for teaching, your guideline and blueprint for teaching, coaching, counseling, mentoring and coaching, counseling, mentoring and consulting your people.consulting your people.

Facilitate Their Success ('make it easy'!)Facilitate Their Success ('make it easy'!)

Provide your people with a safety net by Provide your people with a safety net by giving them authority to implement the plan giving them authority to implement the plan but be sure you involve them in authentic, but be sure you involve them in authentic, yet attainable experiences which will nurture yet attainable experiences which will nurture them towards developing into confident, them towards developing into confident, mature, seasoned leaders.mature, seasoned leaders.

StrategicStrategicEnergyEnergy

CreativeInnovative

SocialSystems

Information-Generating

Actions, Actions, Factors,Factors, Forces Forces

InfluencesInfluences


EntrepreneurEntrepreneurEducationalEducationalKnowledge

WisdomBiologicalBiologicalProcessesProcesses

EnrichEnrichGrowthGrowthNurtureNurture

Causes, Sources, InputsCauses, Sources, Inputs Results, Outcomes, ProductsResults, Outcomes, Products


““Everything depends upon execution; Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution."having just a vision is no solution."

Stephen Sondheim, musical composerStephen Sondheim, musical composer

Remember, enrich your people, grow their domains and nurture them into maturity - do those 3 things, apply your strategic energies and you will always enjoy highly successful outcomes, results and products from your strategic plans!

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