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| Changing the Conversation at the Top How leaders can strengthen boardroom discussions
Do you want to get more meaningful conversations taking place during your top team meetings? Experience greater participation and more authentic conversations from everyone in the room? Move beyond strengthening communications skills, aligning leadership styles and leveraging personality profiles?
Some of the top leadership teams I encounter suffer from what I’d term an ‘overly active’ senior leader. This individual, regardless of title (e.g. CEO, President, Executive Director), usually demonstrates a fairly consistent style of leadership during the team’s interactions and conversations.
In many ways this consistency is both essential and helpful, but in specific situations it can be a major hindrance. Rather than tailor their style to the subject under discussion, they play their role similarly for each and every discussion. And this mostly shows up as a ‘foot on the accelerator’ approach – a need to drive the conversation forward, usually with lots of their presence in the discussion.
What's really needed, to strengthen the conversation, is a look at the dynamics taking place around the...... (cont'd)
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As globalization and turbulence continues to accelerate, the current C-Suite model is often ill-equipped to address these rapid changes. For many organizations it’s time for a reconfiguration of the top leadership team into something more effective. This article makes the case for a ‘Version 3.0’ that looks quite different in terms of function and structure.
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Prosperity for companies is often challenging to achieve in today’s low growth economy. Strategy may be flawed or execution may fall short. Most often, however, initiatives fail primarily because of people issues – things like leadership capability, organizational culture, and talent management. This article highlights these imperatives for success.
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