The Sense Makers

5I’s – From Survive To Thrive!

You hear categorical statements about ‘what leadership is’, reports appear in the news on leadership and poor leadership, there are articles on innovation, transparency, trust and more. These are snapshots of a vignette. There is no coherent context – just advice, exhortations in fact, on what you MUST do.

The 5 I’s is a framework to bring the scattered pieces together and provide a context for you actions and behaviours. Its not an “all or nothing” neither is it a prescription. As a keynote the framework ties different concepts together using graphic stories to illustrate the ‘hooks’; as a workshop, your participants will practice behaviours and ‘try them on’ as an introduction to them choosing to show up differently; as a leadership development program, your leaders will work through an intense but supportive process delving into the concepts and applying these to their own organisational examples. Participants look into their future and decide how they will use the framework to their and the organisation’s benefit.

All participants will be exposed to the:
- Processes making up the framework
- Theory behind each process
- Experience how the theory works in practice using a story
- 5 processes drawn together as the framework

Making Projects “Stick”

Projects have an enviable track record of being “less that successful” in meeting initial expectations.

More importantly, projects that do transition into operations tend to lose their impact over 18 to 36 months. This has more to do with change and leading the new behaviours needed to sustain organisation life of the operations. In fact, it has everything to do with leadership downwards, across and up the organisational hierarchy and more importantly through the informal network present in every organisation.

All delegates will participate in multi-disciplinary learning of:
- Positioning the project transition plan as a make or break activity
- Facilitating cross-departmental communication of the project benefits
- Coaching departmental executives communicating new process impacts
- Supporting leaders understand and adopt a changed context

Onboarding – Securing Your ROI

Studies show that 40% of new appointments into the executive ranks fail in 18 months. This statistic is valid for both internal moves and introduction of new people to the organisation.

Costs range between a quarter of a million dollars to potentially many million where teams are disrupted, customers estranged and competitive advantage lost.

Managing Chaos – A Leadership Approach

Problems come at you thick and fast: you are expected to react immediately with a poised and rational counter or plan.

You relay on your past experience in designing the plan. Before long, you have developed a pattern that works more often than not. Your approach is reinforced and all problems have the same template applied.

Over time and a much shorter timeframe these days, your solutions no longer seem to work so you work harder making the solution work. The harder you work, the more erratic the result; you become discouraged then paralysed with indecision.

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