| IP Australia Senior Leadership Team Facilitation |
| Client |
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| Disciplines |
Facilitation Services |
| Situation |
IP Australia engaged O2C to create a new model for the Senior Leadership Team (SLT). Previously,
senior leaders gathered to receive information from the
SLT - this forum traditionally provided an opportunity for the executive group to impart information
from above. |
| Challenge |
The executive group recognised that the strategic direction the organisation required a different
model of leadership from the senior leadership group. The previous top down approach would not fit with
the strategic direction and a more open and inclusive style would engender the necessary behaviours and
action to achieve the vision. |
| Response |
The O2C facilitation team utilised a number of methods and techniques to challenge the SLT to think,
to identify key issues and to explore challenges and opportunities in the process of moving towards this
new identity and new leadership model. These methods included:
- Visualisation: Through
the Looking Glass required the SLT to identify possibilities and futures without constraints and
limitations. This technique enables people to look beyond current problems and identify and create their
own futures. This is the first step in establishing what the SLT wants to be.
- Emotions. A number of sessions
including Anything Goes, The
Great Race, and the initial presentation challenged the SLT to consider their feelings in relation
to the activity. Emotions are what drive and motivate people to achieve, think and behave in certain ways.
In changing the nature of the SLT, awareness of and responding to emotions will be vital to engage and
maintain momentum.
- Clearing Negativity. The initial presentation enabled
participants an opportunity to "get things off their chest" as one participant explained. Identifying
and dealing with potentially problematic energies generated by emotions and thought processes is
essential to the re-energising process.
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| Outcome |
O2C provided a final report on the activity that outlined the values, behaviours and actions
identified during the activity. The evaluation highlighted that participants' had substantially
increased their understanding of strategic issues, improved their motivation and could identify
relevant steps to building an effective SLT. |
