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In the complex environment of the current business world, leaders need to know when to share power and when to wield it alone, when to look to the wisdom of the group and when to take their own counsel. A deep understanding of context, the ability to embrace complexity and paradox, and a willingness to flexibly change leadership style will be required for leaders who want to make things happen in a time of increasing uncertainty. What has worked in the past for leaders is unlikely to work in the future. Increasingly, they will be called upon to act against their instincts.
Based on the Harvard Business Review article she recently co-authored, “A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making,” Ms. Boone describes how to operate in this new environment and why different contexts call for dramatically different leadership and communication approaches. She provides practical guidance for leaders who must navigate a maze of contradictory demands, information overload and intractable problems.
Some key takeaways from this presentation:
- How complexity science is relevant to leadership
- Why periods of uncertainty are an executive’s best opportunity to bring about change
- What approaches leaders can take to stimulate innovation and creativity in their organizations
- When best practices work and when they don’t
- Why most measures of effectiveness in organizations are useless and what to do about it
In the New Economy, organizational boundaries are fuzzy, workers are dispersed, and attention spans are fractured. Interactive leaders need to know how to connect, inform, and engage a wide range of stakeholders despite the demands of a complex working environment. Based on her research with over 85 companies, Ms. Boone shares practical approaches for leading interactively and fully engaging a workforce instead of simply getting their “buy-in.” Leaders will learn:
- The most useful new collaborative technologies and methods and how to use them to connect, inform, and engage people
- How to excel at virtual leadership – managing people across distance and time
- How to effectively work with people outside your organizational structure whether they are alliance partners, vendors, contractors or other relationships
- Ways to differentiate between 5 different types of communication and when to use the various communication approaches to capture people’s attention and encourage their participation
Meetings are one of the most powerful leadership tools available for tapping into the wisdom of large groups, ensuring effective strategy execution, and instituting change in complex organizations. However, most leaders see large meetings as opportunities to simply showcase products, people or initiatives. In order to function as effective leadership tools, meetings must be carefully designed to integrate with organizational objectives and they must be considered in the context of other communication efforts, including the use of collaborative technologies. In this presentation, Ms. Boone shows leaders how to completely rethink their approach to meetings.
Some key takeaways from this presentation:
- Why face to face meetings are necessary in a networked world
- How billions of meeting dollars are wasted each year
- The difference between meeting planning and meeting design
- Clear approaches to linking meeting objectives to business objectives
- Ways to extend the boundaries of face to face meetings
When delivering ideas, we always customize time frame and content to suit your needs. We strongly believe in carefully aligning our ideas with your objectives and we can offer concise speeches or longer educational workshops. All of our presentations and workshops are highly interactive as Ms. Boone is not only a speaker but also an experienced meeting designer and facilitator.
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