The Leader with 7 Faces: Finding your own ways to practice leadership in today's organization
Uncover true leadership values and create more unified skills and capabilities
Leadership is something we practice, not a theory, not a set of off-the-shelf rules or ready-made answers. The Seven Faces framework questions leadership practices and offers a process to answer them.
Based upon Dr Herrero’s book of the same title, The Leader with Seven Faces describes our unique programme engaging individual managers or management groups in an in-depth exercise to uncover true and often hidden values and beliefs and create leadership skills and capabilities. This programme will give you the tools needed to propel your leadership team to the next stage of insights, change and effectiveness. For example, the team becomes more aligned faster through agreed non-negotiable behaviours and shared commitment to action.
It has become almost impossible for leaders in organizations today to create some personal space for reflection upon one’s leadership capabilities, style and impact. Pulled into many directions, the senior executive often reacts to events (or is controlled by them!) without a chance to sit back and evaluate their role as leader. This programme helps you to find ways to ‘protect space and time’ for reflection whilst at the same time providing a clear structure for this reflection.
What you will learn
On this journey we approach the Seven Faces:
- What leaders say. The issue of their language, what they say and what people hear, perhaps not the same. The meaning and intention of the language used.
- Where leaders go. And take people with them. Here the topic of destinations (or lack of), journeys and whether we have a good map. The leader in this face appears a bit like a Cartographer.
- What leaders build. How leaders build spaces and protect time. How they build ‘homes’ to belong, or to long for. And, of course, the key issue of legacy: what do leaders leave behind, and whether that matters.
- What leaders care about. Here is the area of values and non-negotiables. And how deep we need to go, beyond words.
- How leaders do it. The ‘how’ is a question of style, but not in the sense of individual personalities, but more on the styles of bringing people along. For example, a race? A constant race” A pack? A marathon? I draw analogies from running (jogging) in solitary, or in a group.
- What leaders are. With emphasis on the ‘what’, as in what kind of beast. There are three topics: awareness, responsibility and identity.
- What leaders actually do. The focus here is on role modelling, change ability and the overall practicing of the seven faces.
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