”Only three things happen naturally In organizations, friction, confusion and under-performance, everything else requires leadership” -Peter Drucker

Leadership is one of the most broadly used terms in business and it means a lot of different things to different people. Not all visionaries are leaders and not all leaders are visionaries. However, both are required for highly successful business and economic development.

“Everything rises and falls on leadership.” -John Maxwell

This includes businesses, economies, families, organizations, and nations. Although technologies and processes have evolved rapidly in recent decades, how organizations develop leaders hasn’t changed much. An important response to today’s global challenges is to provide leaders with the development necessary in order for them to engage in a process of personal transformation while influencing others to achieve the extraordinary. A recent Gallup global study revealed that actively disengaged workers outnumber their engaged colleagues by two to one. The greatest opportunities for growth, increasing ROI, and expanding impact are obtainable through a focus on any organization’s most valuable asset, its people.

Great leaders don’t just talk about the change they want to see in their organizations; they model it and authentically share their own stories of growth. Personal transformation, which combines new paradigms with new practices, behaviors, and attitudes, is the key element in developing these leaders. The reality is that we can’t change others’ behavior; we can only change our own. To influence others and organizations in the unprecedented, leaders must first look within. An internal shift in the way we see the world is like switching on the lights. These shifts give leaders insight and breakthrough to results that previously weren’t possible.

"If you want to make minor, incremental changes and improvements, work on practices, behavior or attitude. But if you want to make significant, quantum improvement, work on paradigms . . . i.e., perceptions, assumptions, theories, frames of reference, or lenses through which you view the world.” - Steven Covey

Learning in this context is not simply about acquiring more information but expanding the ability to produce results. It is generative learning, focused on building individual identities, empowering leaders to realize more of their potential, identifying blind spots and limiting beliefs, and equipping them for breakthrough results. Shifts in attitude and increased self-awareness are combined with on the job behavior and action changes resulting in positive organizational impact. The gap between vision and current reality, the total of all present internal and external elements and factors, is narrowed.

Learning studies have proven that individuals learn five times faster from what is experienced emotionally versus what is heard repeatedly. The reality is that decisions are made intuitively, and the rational brain is consulted to affirm what has been decided. An effective approach must include the transformational keys of time, intensity, and repetition.

There is no more cost-effective investment for strategic impact than in leadership development.

Visioneering Associates focuses on training, mentoring and coaching leaders to develop or sharpen the following capabilities:

  • Perpetual vision toward new possibilities

  • Assessment of perceived "limitations" and mitigation of same

  • Creative, out-of-the-box thinking & neuro-linguistics thinking

  • Recognizing internal conversations & biases

  • Lifetime learning discipline

  • Acute listening skills

  • Leading vs managing

  • Enrolling vs mandating

  • Establishing clear communication

  • Strategy and goal setting

  • Establishing a culture of quality and safety

  • Taking responsibility

This approach to leadership development has been effectively implemented with 1,000’s of leaders across the globe!

For more information on Leadership Development possibilities for your organization, please Contact Us.