Defining Leadership Team Requirements

Today's organization is facing an unparalleled series of challenges that create constant and turbulent change. In order to gain competitive advantage, organizations need to manage change more effectively than its competition. The strategies that the organization develops to deal with these challenges, and the speed and efficiency with which it executes these strategies, will determine its performance and growth.

It is the people within the organization who must translate corporate strategy and business goals into action. Organizations differ greatly in terms of what they will require to succeed in the future.

The Strategic Directions process is designed to develop the link between business objectives and leadership practices. The FS&F Strategic Directions program will:

• Define the leadership role in terms of specific behavioral practices
• Identify the critical leadership practices that will be necessary to support and achieve the organization's strategic goals and objectives
• Show the level of consensus that exist in your management team concerning your critical leadership requirements
• Understand risks of current leadership styles to your organization's future
• Clearly define supporting conditions that help develop and maintain these critical leadership behaviors
• Provide a framework your business can use to communicate this information throughout the organization, thus facilitating change

The Strategic Leadership profile will provide a template that can be used throughout the organization to focus and channel the developmental efforts of individuals at all levels.

The pre-assessment phase to understand your team's beliefs regarding a critical leadership profile, is based on tools from 35 years of validated research of North American executives in major industries.