Advanced Executive Leadership
Jan 11, 2022
#3 Does your executive team have a purpose?
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If your executive team are currently not performing as a cohesive team, it could be that the team isn't a team at all. Dr Jacqueline Conway explains how the creation of a team purpose can act as a north star for your executive team's focus and structure.
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Mar 16, 2023
#30 Leadership Conversations
It’s safe to say that there’s a lot of noise that leaderships teams are confronted with and a lot of triaging to determine what needs to be stay on the exec’s desk and what can reasonably be delegated somewhere else in the organisation.
In today’ podcast I’m joined by two dear friends and colleagues, Bryan Sampson and Pauline Holland as we riff on the challenges that leadership teams are facing and how we best offer help and support to these teams.
With more disruption, complexity and noise, we all agree that the quality of conversations that leadership teams are able to have determines how well they’re able to deal with these pressures.
But there are also challenges in executive teams being able to take the time to have more expansive, sensemaking conversations. How can this be resolved?
If you like to find out more about how Waldencroft could help your executive team, please reach out to us here: https://waldencroft.com/contact/
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Feb 23, 2023
#29 The NEW Integrative Framework of Team Effectiveness
In Waldencroft, our work with executive and senior leadership teams is based on our Integrative Framework of Team Effectiveness, or the IF-TE for short.
It's a powerful framework that provides an overall picture of the components that influence the functioning of senior teams. And it seeks to explore how the connectivity between these impacts how the team are performing.
As we engage with new research as it becomes available or as we assimilate our ongoing practical experience working with executive teams, we evolve our understanding of their developmental edge. When this happens, we put the IF-TE under scrutiny and iterate it to make it even better.
We’ve just launched IF-TE 2.0 with some significant changes!
The biggest change to the Integrative Framework of Team Effectiveness (IF-TE), is that we’ve further developed our idea of the importance of context. By this I mean the authorising environment, organisational culture, how the team reasons and actually does work and its attention to its own performance.
That's what I explore in this edition of the podcast.
If you'd like to find out more about the IF-TE, or if you would like to set up a call to explore working with Waldencroft, you can contact us on https://waldencroft.com/contact/
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Feb 9, 2023
#28 Giving it all away
Yvon Chouinard, the 84-year-old founder of the billion-dollar outdoor wear company, Patagonia, looks like an unlikely business tycoon. And in a move that sent ripples around the globe late last year, he made a move that proved he isn’t. He gave the company away. The reason: to divert all of Patagonia’s future profits saying: *_Earth is now our only shareholder._*
His move is in stark contrast to the ideology of the most influential economist of our time, Milton Friedman, who admonished those interested in corporate social responsibility that *_the social responsibility of a business, is to make a profit_*.
Who is right, and what does this say about the kinds of challenges that executives are grappling with in a world that may be finally waking up to the need to create just outcomes for _all_ stakeholders?
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