Leaders: It’s No Time to be Spectators

Insight: “Relationships between leaders and followers - employers and employees, politicians and constituents, coaches and athletes, teachers and students, are the most productive when based on certain key mutual expectations.” In corporate enterprise, the same principle of relationship applies between committee and project leaders and their respective members who seek a high level of performance marked by effective collaboration and innovation.

Situation: The aforementioned quote about leaders and followers is attributed to General Martin Dempsey, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He addresses the issue in his book: ”No Time for Spectators: The Lessons that Mattered Most from West Point to the West Wing.”  He raises the questions about why are the best leaders the ones who are most adept at following? — What should we expect of those who have the privilege of leading?

The subject matter about leading and following is taken into account as part of the material covered in the Talent Based Management Program (“TBM”) which has been designed to help people work better together. Despite corporate America spending huge sums of money on coaching, internal training, schooling, and internal venture capital incubators, according to one survey after another by firms like McKinsey, businesses believe they are not getting the impact they want despite all the spending. Some experts suggest the cause for lack of performance with collaboration and innovation is rooted in the day-to-day routines and habits that stifle original thinking.

The Solution: As General Dempsey illustrates, Leadership is not a spectator sport. It requires an understanding of what it takes to sharpen one’s leadership skills. The exercise of leadership does not happen by chance, it takes preparation and practice and like muscles, it has to be exercised or it will atrophy. To learn more about leading and following, Talent Based Management introduces leadership in the context of performance and positive outcomes. The workshop on Leadership Awareness addresses both leading and following in sequential sections:

#1: You will learn about a holistic view of leadership – an Overview. The material will focus on a sense of what leadership is and the personalization of it.

#2: You will learn about the role of self-organization and the distinction between being a leader in your own life and to exercising leadership with others.

#3: You will learn about the four domains of leadership as reference points and alignment of individual natural talents with natural leadership skills.

#4: You will have the opportunities for your talents and leadership connection as well as to become familiar with a practical approach to maximizing your leadership potential and the leadership potential of others.

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