Authentic Leadership Transformation
Authentic Leadership: Courage In Action ~by Dr. Robert Terry What does authentic leadership transformation look like in your organization. How is authentic leadership measured?
Read More About Authentic Leadership TransformationTransformation: Authentic Engagement Generates Wisdom for FulfillmentBecause of the dynamic, surprise and often chaotic external changes that are occurring in today’s global market place, organization transformation is imperative. Leaders, who engage reality with honesty, create intelligence that will indeed realize or fulfill best strategic direction. Transformative change is creating a conscious dramatic shift in meaning, mission and power dynamics. It’s more than step-by-step improvement or incremental change. Freeing a caterpillar from an enclosed jar improves its situation, but doesn’t change its nature. In transformation, the caterpillar becomes the butterfly. Its essential nature is changed. It has a new identity. It has a new meaning. It cannot revert to its old identity. Such metamorphic change releases an incredible positive energy. This new sense of freedom and excitement produces an organization agility that is required today to capitalize tremendous opportunities that exist in the unpredictable and fast changing market place. There has been a mind, culture or paradigm shift. Organization transformation starts when the centric leadership team becomes authentically, wholistically, aligned around its best strategic thinking. Transformation becomes effective when everyone collaboratively creates the best action to succeed. The critical mass has a confidence that they have never experienced before. Genuine enterprise-wide conversations and newly formed relationships launch right action that guarantees survival. The organization, for the first time ever, has confidence in their leadership to continue an effort collaboratively with employees and customers in the initiation of a compelling, striking and dramatically positive jump into a brilliant future. Whole System Transformation The transformative journey starts by creating the system to become more of a unified whole. It is the process of changing from one configuration or expression into another. All parts of the system must change in harmony. Laggards must be identified and dealt with. Individuals must change. Teams and functions must change. Relationships in all dimensions, but especially with clients or customers, must change. True transformation requires the organization to function as a “whole” to be healthy. In any change process, if wholeness is not the first focus, further separation into disconnected pieces occurs. Becoming whole then will indeed even become more of a challenge. We know of one large organization that has 75 separate change programs conflicting with each other. The term “whole system transformation” means that every aspect, every characteristic, of the organization must be dealt with simultaneously. Often change efforts just deal with one element such as leadership, culture, innovation, customer satisfaction or structure. Most change direction is created at the top and rolled out. Top management defends and advocates for the direction it created in isolation only to be met with resistance. Transformation of a critical mass, through large group interactive events, significantly reduces resistance and ensures that the complete intelligence of the organization is utilized. Whole System Transformation includes and affects the entire system; plus the entire system is involved in creating itself anew. It is collaborative innovation at it best. The focus then moves from change management, or imposing change on an organization, to enabling or allowing the system to start moving to a future present that is a true ordered self. Now it is ready to best deal with the upcoming chaotic external world. This type of transformation requires the participants in the system to discover authenticity through self-awareness and collectively creating an innovative state. When individuals in a system converse in truth, they are able to understand what needs to be. There is an appreciation of all parts and how they relate to each other...and to the outside environment. The impact of a whole system transformation journey is in moving to new zones of increased performance. The organization becomes more of a healthy system that knows what to do next. It is capable of acting quickly and competently. Its structure, resources and newly crystallized identity or existence all support effective action. The fulfillment of enterprise being and becoming is the outcome. All sustains itself because the change methodology was authentic right from the start. Learning at all levels becomes continuous. All are perpetually becoming different. Continuous change becomes part and parcel of the organization’s DNA. Most of all, people feel fulfilled and the purpose of the organization is achieved at the speed of imagination. ~ Roland Sullivan, Action Wheel Leadership Senior Consultant Books and Ebooks By Our Company Founder, Dr. Robert Terry:
 
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