Purpose
How can leaders create Brand Ambassadors if they do not live the journey themselves?
Leadership coaching and ongoing professional development is a critical discipline for empowering leaders to realise their potential. TowerStone Connect, the leadership shaping practice, offers four key consulting services:
- Professional HR Services
- Executive Coaching Services
- Leadership Philosophy Workshops
- An Advanced Diploma in Organisational Coaching
All consulting is underpinned by the Brand Ambassador framework i.e. how can we empower and shape leaders and the organisational culture to best extract the potential that exists in all our people?
Ongoing leadership development is most effective against self observation, conversations and feedback to build awareness and the capacity to self generate solutions to new possibilities.
This is a continuous improvement process. As each leadership challenge is met, so there is reassessment and redefinition of new challenges to create another cycle of self development. A coaching relationship is based on a journey of self awareness, personal development, visioning and action. TowerStone Connect subscribes to a number of coaching best practices including those advocated by James Flaherty (Integral Coaching Principles®) and Richard Barrett (Cultural Transformation Tools®).
The Leadership Conversation Series is designed to develop leadership readiness for shaping a culture of Brand Ambassadors. Leadership philosophy is used from internationally respected authors (e.g. Peter Senge, Judith Glaser, Jim Collins) in a series of “power sessions”. These sessions are facilitated workshops designed to challenge, interrogate and apply these best practice leadership principles to the reality of the work environment.
Benefits
- Understanding the role of conversation in unleashing potential.
- Understanding how to create a culture of Brand Ambassadors.
- Exploring the capacity for authentic leadership.
- Developing new competencies to enable the leader to develop talent.
- Finding new ways to unlock latent talent and potential.
- Understanding how to mobilise talent to work collaboratively in teams and cross functionally to find new opportunities.
- Enabling leaders to see the connectedness in business systems and the levers for change that will result in breakthrough performance.
- Inspiring great leadership to set the platform for others to be great.
Solution Overview
Leadership Coaching
21st century leadership requires not only a visionary leader, but one who purposefully engages with their organisation at multiple levels through coaching. TowerStone’s Advanced Diploma in Organisational Coaching provides a comprehensive structure aimed at developing leaders into successful coaches, who champion Brand Ambassadorship across the complex layers of organisations. They are self-motivated and inspire their organisation to achieve greatness.
These leaders shape and nurture Brand Ambassadors – inspired employees whose values are closely aligned with those of the organisation and who drive performance through personal accountability and commitment.
In today’s terms, many leaders call themselves coaches. However, on closer scrutiny of their priorities, the intent of engaging with their people is not to empower them. Their intent is to satisfy their customers, even at the expense of their people. This mindset allows for success that is not sustainable. In our extensive work with corporates across various sectors, we have consistently found that when organisations develop a culture of true coaching, driven by leadership, employees are able to contribute more than just their hands and mind, but they are inspired to contribute their hands, mind and hearts. This has a significant effect on productivity and delivery of results.
The key is intent. Authentic leaders who call themselves coaches, inspire all they come into contact with because they understand the core elements of leadership themselves and operate purposefully in their organisation.
Leadership Conversation Series©
The Leadership Conversation Series is designed to create awareness of current leadership philosophies as a means to develop leadership readiness for shaping Brand Ambassadors. We employ and facilitate teachings from internationally respected authors (e.g. Peter Senge, Judith Glaser, Jim Collins) through a series of "power sessions". These sessions are structured, conversation based workshops designed to challenge, interrogate and apply these principles to the reality of the work environment.
Outline
| Conversation 1: Creating Brand Ambassadors |
- Understanding the value of conversation in the workplace
- Learning how to be in conversation
- Exploring ways to manage change
- Learning to lead through Care and Growth
- Finding ways to build talent for now and the future
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References:
Our Iceberg is Melting (Kotter),
Care and Growth (Schuitema),
Leadership Pipeline (Charan, Drotter, Noel) |
| Conversation 2: Being an Authentic Leader |
- Gaining self awareness through self insight
- Understanding your leadership impact on others
- Exploring new ways to create a culture of Brand Ambassadors through personal leadership contribution.
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References:
Leadership DNA (Glaser) |
| Conversation 3: Inspiring Talent |
- Exploring the value of collaboration and team work
- Learning new ways of thinking and being to create a culture of collaboration
- Exploring the impact of leadership styles on team work and collaboration
- Finding new practices to create a culture of collaboration
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References:
Creating WE (Glaser)
5th Discipline (Senge) |
| Conversation 4: Mobilising Talent |
- Understanding the value of cross-functional team work
- Seeing cross-functional connectedness in your business
- Finding the opportunities in working together
- Building relationships for cross functional strategising and break through performance
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References:
Living Supply Chain (Gattorna)
5th Discipline (Senge) |
| Conversation 5: Liberating outstanding performance |
- Understanding the impact of connectedness
- Finding levers for change
- Focusing on the levers that lead to exceptional performance
- Making your ideas stick
- Inspiring greatness in others
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References:
Tipping Point (Gladwell)
Good to Great (Collins) |
| Conversation 6: Mapping future success |
- Planning the journey – using new insight
to embed a culture of Brand Ambassadors and
unleash exceptional performance
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References:
All of above |
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