Structural Approach to Leadership
with Robert Fritz
The central role in any organization is the leader. Without good leadership, the company self-organizes into various conflicts in which internal structural issues vie for the same resource base, authority, and control.
How can leaders increase their effectiveness? How might they best deal with the range of concerns that demand their attention? With limited time available, how can they get a true fix on the reality they face? How can they build a supportive team in which alignment, wisdom, experience, good faith, and good judgment reinforce the direction of the organization?
Too often, leaders are caught between short-term demands and long-term aspirations, with each dimension being compromised to the detriment of both.
This two-day seminar is for two groups of professionals: those who lead organizations, and those who coach them.
Nowadays, leaders have the wisdom to work with an executive coach to support their leadership roles. The role is complex. They need to be able to think, try out ideas, explore scenarios, consider personnel changes, consider acquisitions or divestitures. None of this can be done within the structure of the board or the executive team. One suggestion of radical change, even though it might be only part of a thought experiment, can be detrimental to the organization, and perhaps, business. This is why the executive coach plays such an important role.
For the executive-leader, he or she can benefit from the ability to explore overall strategy, tactics, organization design, and use of talent. The leader’s role is multifaceted. Questions of how to spend time, how to build the leadership capacity within the organization, and how to bring the organization to a profound sense of alignment or of ongoing concern are a constant challenge to every leader.
Leadership is not a science, it is an art. But it is an art that functions within the principles of structural dynamics. Too often, leaders are up against invisible structural forces, not of their own making, but these forces will determine, and often limit, their level of success. And that is the theme of this seminar: the structural dynamics of leadership.
Without a change of underlying structure, the organization will oscillate. We have seen this throughout the years as organizations build up capacity, and then downsize, only to build up capacity again. They centralize decisions, and then decentralize decisions, and centralize decisions yet again. They focus on quality, then cost, and then quality again. These cycles usually occur over two to five years. The point is, they are often predictable. But beyond that, how might the leader change the cycles so that the organization can move with strategic advancement, build a balance between capacity and workload, create organizational momentum, understand and manage the relationship between flexibility and steadfastness, and enable people to become better over time? These are the vital issues this seminar will address in new ways, using the principles of structural dynamics to better understand and design organizations that work well, improve over time, and achieve their goals.
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Who should attend:
LEADERS
Those in leadership positions within their organizations. CEOs, COOs, presidents, managing directors, senior vice presidents, and others in key leadership roles within the company. The size of the organization doesn’t matter, because small and large companies face the very same issues. Each organizational leader must come to a personal understanding and strategy for the actual situation he or she confronts.
EXECUTIVE COACHES
This seminar is unique in that executive coaches are invited to join. Their perspective and professional skills are quite different from the leaders. But they are in an exceptional position to support leaders in ways that are truly critical and not able to be duplicated elsewhere in the leaders life.
This course is lead by Robert Fritz, founder of the field of structural dynamics, and executive coach to several senior leaders. Robert co-created the workshop Leadership and Mastery, along with Peter Senge and Charlie Keifer. (This course was the foundation for Peter’s classic book The Fifth Discipline.) Robert has lead many seminars for senior executives throughout the years, and this seminar will be a culmination of much of that work, along with new insights about how to lead during difficult times.
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The workshop takes place over two days. The first day will focus on Leadership and the second day will be focused on Leadership Coaching. The cost is $995US – The deposit is $350US. If you wish to attend the first day only the fee will be $725US. Please note you cannot attend the second day if you have not attended the first day. The price of this course includes rooms & meals when held in Oberursel, Germany location.
You can reach us at 800-848-9700 or email to seminars@robertfritz.com for more information. |
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Next dates:
Feb 03 - Feb 04 2011
Oberursel, Germany
Jun 09 - Jun 10 2011
Newfane, VT
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