Manifesting Executive Leadership

Name: Manifesting Executive Leadership
Author: Thomas Poulin

Use your executive authority to guide your organization

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(gentle music) Welcome to Manifesting Executive Leadership. In these lessons, You'll learn how to become a better executive leader by accounting for limitations, leveraging technology, shaping strategy, fostering connections and conveying appropriate values. Your organization isn't perfect. It might be running well and even excelling but it's still important to strive for improvement. Even though there will be limitations on what your organization might strive to achieve. When you create your organizational purpose and develop strategic plans, it's best to consider whether they're realistically achievable. it's advised to consider the external and internal limitations. This will help you plan a means of minimizing or overcoming limitations, or plan a means to stretch those limitations to the greatest extent possible. Every organization exists with a complex environment. One environmental model for the external environment is the political, economic, social, and technological model. Otherwise known as the PEST model. At any given time political environments might frame what organizations may or may not do and sometimes mandate how activities must be completed. The financial status of your organization, your community and the market will provide both opportunities and limitations. Most leader managers are more than capable of working in a growing economy where opportunities are widespread and funding is available. But not all have been prepared for working in a shrinking economic environment. One way that you can prepare them is to provide a leadership or management training Organizations also exist within communities. And those communities have expectations for organizations like safe working conditions, appropriate compensation and corporate social responsibility. If you meet or exceed their positive expectations your organization is likely to face lesser oversight and restrictions. You could also perform an internal assessment to determine your potential limitations. It's recommended to conduct a strengths weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis. Also known as a SWOT. You can use a SWOT analysis for programs, projects or goals In a SWOT analysis, You consider a proposal in terms of differing factors. You can ask, what organizational strength do you have that will support success? What potential organizational weaknesses does the proposal pose that must be addressed? What are the potential opportunities this proposal brings to the organization ? And what are the potential threats like opportunity costs that might have to be dealt with, if your organization pursues this proposal? As a general rule, a SWOT analysis should be done once for every endeavor, unless something changes. For example, if one of your strengths is the image and credibility of your top leadership but that leadership changes abruptly, this would likely affect the outcome of the SWAT. So, in this case, it would be wise to repeat it. When it comes to SWOT, people may focus on the strengths and opportunities while ignoring the weaknesses and threats. This creates a potential flaw in your plan leaving you vulnerable to unexpected consequences which might have been avoided with some pre-planning. It's important for an organization's executive leadership to be positive, aspirational and forward looking. It's best to be optimistic and entrepreneurial and seek out or create opportunities while also considering the potential limitations on achieving any goal or objective. This supports more realistic planning, more effective leveraging of strengths and more direct action to minimize or eliminate limitations they might face. In doing so you will optimize the likelihood of success As an executive leader, It's imperative to communicate these concepts to your subordinate leaders throughout your organization. By doing so you create a more realistic mindset so they can plan better at their own levels and achieve greater successes with their own projects and programs.

Advanced Provider : Thomas Poulin 7 Lessons · 26m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Urdu, Chinese

Course Description

To be an executive leader, it’s essential to leverage certain competencies for the sake of accomplishing the strategic direction that you’ve put forth into your company. That means accounting for limitations, leveraging your available technology, shaping strategy, fostering connections, and conveying appropriate values. So, what specific skills and competencies are necessary for getting to that point?

In these lessons on Manifesting Executive Leadership, you’ll learn how to recognize the various limitations that are set by your internal and external environments. We’ll also explore how to shape planning in the strategic, operational, and tactical senses. We’ll focus on strategic planning in particular. Then, these lessons will cap off with the people side of things. You’ll discover how you can foster a network of connections through relationship-building. We’ll also show you how to convey appropriate values to your employees through modeling. You’ll also know why it’s essential to maintain integrity while doing so.

What You'll Learn

Identify your personal and environmental limitations, including those of your employees and organization
Recognize the limitations set by your internal and external environments
Shape organizational strategy across the strategic, operational, and tactical senses, with a focus on strategic planning
Create and foster a network of connections through relationship-building
Convey appropriate organizational values to employees through modeling
Maintain integrity while conveying values to employees

Key Takeaways

To be an executive leader, it is essential to leverage certain competencies to accomplish the strategic direction set forth into a company.
Effective executive leadership involves accounting for limitations, leveraging available technology, shaping strategy, fostering connections, and conveying appropriate values.
Planning can be shaped in the strategic, operational, and tactical senses, with strategic planning receiving particular focus in this course.
Leaders can foster a network of connections through relationship-building and convey appropriate values to employees through modeling.
Maintaining integrity is essential while conveying organizational values to employees.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I learn in this course?

You will learn how to recognize the various limitations set by your internal and external environments, how to shape planning in the strategic, operational, and tactical senses (with a focus on strategic planning), how to foster a network of connections through relationship-building, and how to convey appropriate values to employees through modeling while maintaining integrity.

What competencies does executive leadership require according to this course?

The course explains that executive leadership means accounting for limitations, leveraging your available technology, shaping strategy, fostering connections, and conveying appropriate values in order to accomplish the strategic direction set for the company.

What topics or lessons are covered?

Lessons cover Knowing Your Employees and Organizational Limitations, Being Aware of Your Own Limitations, Shaping Organizational Strategy, Strategic Planning, Creating and Fostering Connections, and Conveying Appropriate Values, followed by a Test Your Knowledge section.

How does the course approach the people side of leadership?

The course caps off with the people side by showing how you can foster a network of connections through relationship-building and how to convey appropriate values to your employees through modeling, while explaining why it is essential to maintain integrity in doing so.