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Chief of Air StaffLeadership Conference – Changing Culture?

18-19 July 2007

Leadership for Challenging Environments

Roger Lane Consulting Ltd

Leadership Development and Executive Coaching

Multi-National Command in Contemporary Operations: Empowerment Realities and Myths


Aim

To stimulate thinking about empowerment in multinational operations in order to contribute to

RAF thinking on agile leadership.


The FEEL FITTER Agenda for High Performance

Focus on V4 - Vision, Values, Velocity and Virtue Empowerment and MotivationEfficient, Effective DeliveryLinking and Relationships

Flexibility and AgilityInnovation and ImprovementTeam Work and PartnershipsTransparencyEmpathyRecognition and Appreciation


Empowerment

“ Empowerment is all about giving people power to make decisions.”


Empowerment

• Position Power - aircraft captain or squadron command• Knowledge Power - avionics engineer• Task Power - Air Load Master• Relationship Power - sitting next to CAS at dinner! • Personal Power - personal attributes and interpersonal

skills


Empowerment

“ Empowerment is the creation of an organisational climate that releases the knowledge, experience and motivation that resides in people.”

Ken Blanchard, “Leading at a Higher Level”


Empowerment

“ The price of empowerment and freedom is a share in the risk and taking responsibility.”


Empowerment – the Language• Share information with everybody

• Create autonomy through clear direction as to what is to be achieved and within what constraints (boundary management)

• Transform hierarchical organisations into self-directed individuals and teams

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Empowerment and Multinational Command

• Positional Power: Commander is in an institutional position of weak authority.

• Knowledge Power: Nations are reluctant to share Intelligence and information.

• Task Power: Nations reluctant to resource operations properly; impose caveats.

• Relationship Power: Capacity to create and leverage network of relationships.

• Personal Power: Personal power; and cost of leadership.


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ENDS

MEANS

COMMAND

LEADERSHIP

MANAGEMENT

COMMANDChallenge: Change

Objective: Shared view ofOperational Design

Challenge: UncertaintyObjective: Operational Success

Challenge: Complexity

Objective: Sound processes and risk reduction.Economic, efficient use of resources.


Mission Command

“ The very essence of mission command is to give clear direction on what is to be done, allocate the resources and delegate authority to commanders to achieve the objectives.”


Team work and Partnership - Stages in Team Development

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FORMINGSTORMINGNORMINGPERFORMINGDISBANDING

TIME

COMPETENCE

COMMITMENT


Conclusion

© TMSDI Development International 2004

• Empowerment is a key element of leadership

• It is not about “giving” power – but creating the environment

• The price of empowerment is a share in risk and responsibility

• Nuances in multi-national operations

• Individuals and teams need different styles matched to their stage in development


Chief of Air Staff Leadership Conference

Leadership for Challenging Environments

Roger Lane Consulting Ltd

Leadership Development and Coaching

“ Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”Henry Ford

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