global footprints: navigating leadership for the future
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This lead paper explores critical capabilities that leaders will need to thrive in a networked, global environment. We must forge new pathways, stepping through challenges with courage and looking to the possibilities – personally and professionally. What are some of the trends and how might leaders operate in future landscapes? What is important to focus on and why is it important right now?TRANSCRIPT
Global Footprints: Navigating Leadership for the future
Dr Cheryl Doig
#cheryldoig
8500 aftershocks
A year in Christchurch…
Chch City Mall
The changing songlines
• Leadership Development
• Talent Management
• Management Innovation http://www.ddiworld.com/glf2011
DDI
Social Capital: Building collaborative cultures within and across schools -Michael Fullan http://www.cse.edu.au/Publications1.aspx
Boundary Spanning Leadership
• “Capability to establish direction, alignment and commitment across boundaries in service of a higher vision or goal.”
• (2008-9 study) 128 senior executives • 86% said it was extremely important to work
effectively across boundaries - only 7% felt they were very effective in doing so…
• http://www.ccl.org/leadership/pdf/research/BoundarySpanningLeadership.pdf
Future Leadership Capabilities Marshall Goldsmith
Thinking globally
Cross cultural diversity
Technological savvy
Building alliances and partnerships
Sharing leadership
Learning agility
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0ARtWgAEvs&feature=related
Talent Management
Clarity
Creativity Relationships
Technological savvy
Ethical Relationships
and Behaviors
Adaptive
Networked
Self regulating
Contextual
Leadership for the future
An iterative model…
Self Regulated
Self Regulated
• Leads self for learning: ACEL Leadership Capability Framework
• Mindfulness
• The organising principle: Doing less - Not multitasking
Key influencer: David Rock
Key stretch: Neuroleadership
Positional power to Influence
Away From
• Telling
• One off
• One way (either/or)
• Discussion
• Advocacy
• Making assumptions
• Judgment
Towards
• Learning Talk
• 365 days of the year
• Multiple ways (and/both)
• Dialogue & Discussion
• Inquiry and Advocacy
• Checking for understanding
• Evidence
Contextual
Contextual
• Diversity – age, gender, culture, language….
• Biased followers
• Intergenerational staff and stakeholders
• Key influencer: David Livermore
• Key stretch: Cultural Leadership
Culturally Intelligence
• Cultural intelligence (CQ) refers to the capabiliity of individuals to function effectively in multicultural contexts.
Earley & Ang (2003)
We tend to be more able to more readily decode the mental states of others in social groups closest to us; thus, relative to those outside the group, we would have an intra-cultural advantage.
Ringleb, Rock, Conser - “NeuroLeadership in 2010”
Cultural Intelligence
Leading with cultural intelligence doesn’t mean being a chameleon to every individual and situation encountered. But it does mean knowing when an empowering style is most necessary as compared to a more directive one…. It requires discipline and hard work to become more adaptable in how we inspire and lead people in an increasingly diverse world. And with that hard work, slowly but surely, you can be a global leader.
http://davidlivermore.com/2011/09/09/can-you-really-be-a-global-leader/
Biased followers
• Researchers have found some universally desired leadership traits among followers everywhere, such as competence, trustworthiness, and decisiveness.
• The expectations and stereotypes of followers influence our leadership
• One size does not fit all
http://davidlivermore.com/2011/09/09/can-you-really-be-a-global-leader/
Landmarks and waterholes…the songlines are altered…
Adaptive
• Flexible
• Agile
• Conflict
• Managing polarities
Adaptive
• Key influencer: Heifetz, Grashow & Linsky
• Key stretch: Adaptive Leadership
Changing Landscape
• Trauma
• Roll drop
• Staffing loss
• Property damage
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Possibilities thinking
Capitalising on Complexity
• Better performers manage complexity
• Creativity is the greatest leadership quality needed
• Most successful organisations co-create products and services with customers, and integrate customers into core processes
IBM Global CEO Study 2010
©Think Beyond Ltd 2011 Cartoon by David Fletcher
Networked
Networked
• Collaboration is key • Collective intelligence • Sharism - Isaac Mao • Share more gain more • Heterarchy, wirearchy, • Connectivism • Amplification of ideas
• Key influencer: Mal Lee & Glenn Finger • Key stretch: The internet of things
Collective Intelligence Explains a groups performance on a wide variety of tasks
Factors that were important: – average social sensitivity (the ability to read and understand the
emotion of others) of group members,
– the quality in distribution of conversational turn-taking.
Ringleb, Rock, Conser - “NeuroLeadership in 2010”
Collective intelligence is not strongly correlated with the average of maximum individual intelligence of group members
Collaboration
http://testingground.samjohnson.co.nz/?page_id=7
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE5xbGYxa1ZGYm1yc2Z3cEhpcEg4WkE6MQ
Over 360,000 tonnes of liquifaction shovelled
Over 75,000 volunteer hours
Filter Bubble
We need the internet to connect us all together. We need it to introduce us to new ideas and new people and different perspectives and it is not going to do that if it leaves us all isolated in a web of one.
http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html
Eli Parisier
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The footprints that we leave now have a compelling impact on the next
generation of leaders.
Top stories…whose top stories?
25/09/11
Aimi Eguchi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh_BC_HU_lk&feature=related
Ethical
Relationships Behaviour
Moral purpose
Dilemmas
Polarities Conflict
Jan Robertson http://www.icsei.net/icsei2011/Full%20Papers/0181.pdf Michael Bezzina http://research.acer.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=research_conference_2007
Shaking Up Christchurch Education
• Learner focused
• Future focused
• System coherent
• Sustainable
To be a teacher you need to be a prophet – we are preparing children for a world that does not exist yet. – Peter Senge ACEL Conference, Adelaide 2011
www.thinkbeyond.co.nz/suce/
Ethical Relationships
and Behaviors
Adaptive
Networked
Self regulating
Contextual
Leadership for the future
An iterative model…
The songs must be continually sung to keep the land alive.
www.thinkbeyond.co.nz [email protected]
www.alpineleadership.com
Dr Cheryl Doig
#cheryldoig
http://thefounta.in/WL5jH