Building muscle for what’s required now (12 of 12 Part Series)

At the start of this series, we asked ourselves - Is our organisation (really) Ready for this period?

Acknowledging that, in the same way that we don’t know what we don’t know, we haven’t considered what we haven’t considered.

It’s such as healthy view, even for the smartest among us.

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“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.”

?~ Albert Einstein

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At a headline level, you knew that strategy implementation had shifted to a more dynamic setting. Through the 10 x 10 Consideration exercises, you will have expanded your strategic implementation thinking.

If you are like all the other leaders that I have worked with over time, you will have preferred angles where you go deep and remain current. Scanning across all 10 factors, and using the What? So What? Now What? reflective process, I guarantee you will see new opportunities and risks. Sometimes it’s a new topic, more often it’s topics we have seen before, and it is the current opportunity or risk implications that are the new epiphany.?

Surrounding most organisations at this time there is a lot of “noise”. Our experience tells us that feeling a lot of movement on the periphery of our awareness triggers different reactions in ourselves and team members ranging from avoidance, to doubling down on efforts to control, or achieve internal targets, or becoming a stickler for the details. Working through these Consideration exercises is designed to feel like building muscle for expanded organisational awareness – both seeing and “dot connecting”.

Those who engage in this leadership work, wanting to ensure positive outcomes, know it is not to be taken lightly.

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“Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”

~ Mike Tyson

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There’s a brutality to the Mike Tyson quote that is confronting and useful in this discussion. I am often asked why do I obsess on building the strength of the agenda, leadership, and team dynamic of Fitness for Business Transformation? There’s always the upside answer of seeing teams achieve what even they had doubted at times. I do love being a part of that. There is also the other angle of the unnecessary pain experienced of totally avoidable topics that became issues while leaders and teams are busy working on their operations and strategy.?

As the environment continues to shift, your organisation’s Business Transformation can no longer be led like a technical project plan. Building awareness of considerations that impact fitness into your leadership rhythms is a critical evolution of your good work.

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Like signing up for an Ultra-Marathon, or getting in the ring with Mike Tyson, leading an organisation through transformation is a challenge to be respected and prepared for rigorously!

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Build your Organisation Fitness for this period

Build your Fitness for this period

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Accomplished leaders

If you are an accomplished leader that’s aware of the need, and are actively expanding perspectives to survive and thrive in this dynamic leadership environment, I salute you! Like me, this is not our ‘first rodeo’ and we still have plenty to contribute. If you’ve appreciated the gift of the 10 x 10 Considerations for assessing organisation fitness for now, we are collating the series into a playbook. If you would like a customised copy with your team logo or personal message to gift to others – please send a message to [email protected]

Like the users of Suduko puzzles play to build mental fitness for broader applications and life health, the richness of your insights will be noted in your professional and social circles.

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Chief Transformation Officers, Change Champions, Internal and External Strategy & Transformation Facilitators, Trainers and Coaches

If you are a leader and proactive influencer of teams and organisations through strategy implementation requiring transformation, I salute you! I respect your unique skills and energy. I share your passion for this work and the ongoing commitment to mastery of our craft. If you suspect Fitness for Business Transformation exercises and insights could complement your good work, we are collating the 10 x 10 Consideration series into a playbook. If you would like a customised copy with your team logo or personal message to gift to others – please send a message to [email protected]

Bernie

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Are you a Bright Spark, bright with a spark for today and the future, seeking reconnection with what matters and the capability to lead with intention without being limited by your past, even if the world around you is constantly disrupting?

Are you a Bold Executive Leader seeking shifts in yourself and your organisation’s outcomes without compromising relationships, self-care, and meaning in work, even if the conundrums are mounting and deep down you doubt this is possible across your team?

?Are you a Board Director seeking to maintain or achieve industry leadership through periods of disruption, without disrupting shareholder confidence or Executive commitment, even if others in your industry say it is not possible?

Where do you need to elevate and integrate?

Bernie is known for building capability and confidence in leaders who need to transform organisations that are continually reshaping to survive and thrive.

His career began in whole of enterprise and cross-organisation shifts, followed by 10 years in Business Transformation Diagnostics, Training, and Mentoring across Australia and SE Asia.?He currently works with leaders who are focused on accelerated development and re-imagination of industry value systems. He loves working with the Bright, the Bold and the Board to successfully transition to the next phase, creating a positive ripple effect.

In 2020 Bernie authored Traction: Building Change-fit Leadership Teams.

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