Leadership Development

This resource includes ten proven strategies for working with senior leaders who do not fully understand the people or change process dynamics impacting success on change initiatives.

In this article, we want to share with you what we perceive you need to be doing—or doing differently, or to stop doing altogether—to get the return on investment you need from the change efforts you sponsor or lead. This is a candid portrayal based on our observations of our senior executive clients over the past four decades. The picture we paint here is further fortified by what we consistently hear from other seasoned consultants and project managers, both external experts and internal professionals, about the successes and challenges they face in getting their senior leaders to do what is required for change to succeed.

A common assumption among leaders and managers is that their success is dependent on having the right answers at the right time and providing clear direction to their people amidst the clamor of day-to-day operations. This may have been historically true when the pace and complexity of change were moderate, but is far less so in times of large scale, high-pressured transformational change.

In this article we will outline six key actions that you can take to stay on top of the “bucking bronco” of change and continue to provide guidance and stability. We will demonstrate how these actions provide sound leadership in times of uncertainty, as well as debunk the faulty assumption that you, as the leader, should be all-knowing.

One of the toughest change efforts we supported was made more difficult because the CEO was not willing to change himself in the very ways he was demanding that his organization change. The company was transforming its strategy, operations, business processes, and culture.

This article explores the key change leadership issue of “modeling,” and provides insights for how you can get your leaders to model the changes they are asking of your organization.

Executives have never before been as challenged in their roles as they are today. The business challenges they face are enormous—globalization and the integration of cultures, unheard-of technological advances, increasingly sophisticated customers AND employees, a struggling economy, and the need to find business performance enhancers beyond cost-cutting and downsizing.

In this article, we describe the five keys to success that we believe will make every coach, and the executives they work with, far more successful.

A good change consultant's primary job is to catalyze insight and clear thinking in their clients so their executive leaders are able to lead their organization's change efforts with greater skill and competency. In this free eBook we provide you with questions that promote the right type of thinking and actions to support change.

In this eBook, you will discover a new leadership paradigm, skills and methods to achieve breakthrough in business results, culture and leadership in all your complex change efforts.

Does your organization suffer from these symptoms - caused by poor change leadership and ineffective change strategies? To find out, take the Symptoms of Poor Change Leadership Assessment.

Watch Dean Anderson describe Conscious Change Leadership.

Vertical Leadership Development is key to building a new level of trust during transformational change. It enables leaders to co-create solutions to complex challenges they could not solve previously. Watch Bill Torbert and Dean Anderson discuss the breakthroughs in trust and results that naturally occur when leaders develop greater self-mastery and the ability to dialogue openly.