Session Type: Interactive Roundtable Accepted by MIG(s): Time Allotted: 75 Description: Superior performance is the ultimate responsibility of Leadership 2.0. The presenter will share a framework that quickly highlights strategic weaknesses and suggests how to reach superior performance and strengthen competitiveness. The framework operates on the principles of collaborative leadership and draws on the power of emergent conversation to highlight opportunities and specific actions to leverage them. Abstract: Perhaps with 2020 vision, Goethe stated more than 100 years ago: Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
These insights from the past highlight what is missing from many “leaders” now and what will become more important as we move into our collective future. Leadership 2.0 is fundamentally about Time for Action. However, the issue is few know how to act to achieve superior performance or what (specifically) to do. Most business leaders are good at strategy OR good at implementation, but only the best are good at both.
This round table conversttion will engage the participants in a collective exercise to help them deliver superior performance by finding the links between strategic goals and the initiatives that are needed to deliver them in the best possible way. We will work through an innovative new framework that quickly highlights strategic weaknesses and how to leverage the strengths of their own organisations. This intuitive and rapid tool enables participants to determine how they can reach superior performance and strengthen competitiveness whilst engaging those around them behind their strategy. The framework operates on the principles of collaborative leadership and draws on the power of emergent conversation to highlight opportunities and specific actions to leverage them.
This exercise builds the bridges between tactics and strategy in a way that even relative novice leaders can develop their skills quickly and generate confidence in those around them to engage with them in their desired direction. The framework itself is being made freely available through sharing in professional networks and has generated some positive results which will be discussed.
The framework has been developed through an iterative process involving a diverse set of views from both academics and practitioners and was recently published to encourage wider general use. Leaders of the future will find this simple tool a great way to stimulate open constructive conversations about what needs to be put into action and deliver the desired superior performance across strategic goals - in a way that is sustainable over time and acceptable to all beneficiaries and the wider community. Arthur Shelley, Intelligent Answers, RMIT University
Bio: Arthur Shelley is the Founder of Intelligent Answers and The Organizational Zoo Ambassadors Network (or OZAN, a free professional development network) OZAN members focus on practical ways to enhance behavioral aspects of leadership capability. In his former role of Global Knowledge Director at Cadbury Schweppes, he initiated virtual global communities to leverage knowledge, exchange ideas and increase performance and mentored successors to take responsibility for them. Arthur is the Knowledge Management Coordinator for RMIT University’s MBA program where he also teaches Entrepreneurship. In 2009 he received the “Outstanding Sessional Teacher” in the Learning and Teaching Excellence program. He is also a PhD candidate researching the impact of behaviour on project outcomes and the author of two books, Being a Successful Knowledge Leader and The Organizational Zoo, A Survival Guide to Workplace Behavior.
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