Our Organisational Leadership Consulting Services
Creating leadership advantage not only means having the right leaders for your strategy but also the right strategy for leadership. Here, the focus is on creating the optimal environment for leadership to thrive. Organisational leadership concerns ‘leadership from within’, embedded at every level, across the organisation.
The whole system needs to be involved in making leadership happen in this way. This is reflected in our leadership consulting services which are founded upon deep expertise in organisational analysis and design, cultural dynamics, capability development, mindset and behavioural change, as well as change management.
CLARIFYING THE STRATEGY, CULTURE AND CAPABILITY FOR LEADERSHIP ACROSS YOUR ORGANISATION
Examples of our work:
- The corporate centre of an international retailer is under pressure to raise the leadership bar, amidst increasing market uncertainty
- The UK MD of a professional services firm looks to develop a new leadership strategy as the firm struggles to win in new markets
- A family-owned SME is reluctant to engage with leadership succession, placing its growth and longer-term viability in jeopardy
RETOOLING THE ORGANISATION TO CREATE PURPOSEFUL, ALIGNED AND ACCOUNTABLE LEADERSHIP AT EVERY LEVEL
Examples of our work:
- Following a restructuring, an international facilities management company aspires to develop more of a leadership coaching culture
- As a firm’s share price falls and valued talent defects, leadership is criticised for creating a culture of fear and mistrust
- A company’s leaders express frustration at the slow pace of change amidst market disruption and evident ‘change fatigue’
ENHANCING THE ORGANISATION’S CAPABILITY TO WORK AT A DEEPER LEVEL WITH THE PEOPLE SIDE OF CHANGE
Examples of our work include:
- A telco looks for a deeper, more transformative experience for participants attending a flagship global leadership programme
- The board of an international investment fund wants to build its capability to lead in the ‘new normal’
- A UK educational services provider looks for a keynote input on leadership and behavioural change at its leadership conference
OUR APPROACH
As with individual leaders and their teams, organisations have a ‘shadow side’ to their personality; one that is often more potent than the rational world of strategy, budgets, change roadmaps and KPIs. The shadow side includes phenomena such as culture, climate, values, myths, trust, turf-wars and institutional bias.
The shadow side can be observed at a surface, behavioural level. Culture, for example, is often referred to as ‘….the way we do things around here’. However, digging deeper, one finds realities of organisational life that are easier to feel than define and which transcend mere culture. These include out-of-awareness, seemingly irrational forces that can keep an organisation stuck, overwhelmed or in crisis mode. For example, when leaders and their teams act out their unspoken anxiety about the future, unwittingly behaving in ways that maintain the safety of the status quo.
Creating the right conditions for leadership means working with these less visible, felt aspects of your organisation’s ‘shadow side’. Deep C designs and implements leadership systems that call upon our expertise in this area. We believe that for any organisation to be innovative, agile and adaptive, it needs to achieve – and maintain – a healthy and balanced relationship between its rational ‘personality’ and its shadow side. Without this equilibrium, change initiatives are unlikely to succeed.
THE BENEFITS
We can help you build organisational leadership by:
- Bringing a fresh perspective on leadership, culture and change; one that is grounded in the realities of complex organisations
- Facilitating challenging conversations that need to happen, where new approaches to intractable problems are required
- Clarifying what’s happening at a deeper level in the organisation, providing the basis for effective action
- Designing and implementing leadership systems which provide a bridge between strategy and desired results
- Acting as coaches to your leaders, building their deeper capability in terms of addressing the people side of change.
“I wanted to thank you for facilitating the various sessions on our leadership strategy and culture last week. My expectation going into this was completely different compared to the end result and I felt that as a senior management team we accomplished things that might otherwise not have been realised. I appreciated you encouraging us to think and act outside our traditional comfort zone and ensuring that the sessions provided an opportunity to look at some of our business challenges in a completely different light. I look forward to further working with Deep C on this in the future….”
REGIONAL OPERATIONS DIRECTOR, GLOBAL INFORMATION SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
For further details of our organisational leadership consulting services and how we can help you to build organisational leadership, please contact us.