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Strategic Leadership Profile
Using the Scaled Comparison
What Are the Leadership Attributes Required by Your Strategy?
The following question process is employed to determine the leadership attributes required for strategy implementation:
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Which leadership attribute is more important to the successful implementation of our 2002 Diversification Strategy? |
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Which leadership attribute is more important to the successful implementation of our 2002 Diversification Strategy? |
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The same process, using the same list of attributes, but a different question is used to determine the actual leadership attributes of each of your managers in the target group. The persons completing this evaluation do not need to know anything about the strategy, rather they should be people who have a thorough day-to-day knowledge about how the leader in question actually manages.
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Which attribute in each pair better describes Jim Saunders? |
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The Leadership Gap
After all leaders have been assessed on their Leadership attributes, the Actual attribute profile describing the group can be determined, by combining and averaging the data from all individuals. This "average actual" profile is then compared with the Ideal Strategic Leadership Profile required by the strategy. This is how it looks:
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The "Gap" information can be seen as the distance between the "A" (actual attribute strength) and the end of the black bar (ideal attribute strength required). This "Gap Analysis" report is a visual representation of the data gathered, which exist in numerical form on other reports. The larger the gap, especially with attributes very critical to the implementation of the strategy, the greater the attention that must be paid to that attribute.
Closing the gaps between Actual and Ideal is not simply a matter of a development program. For some attributes, for example "Results oriented" or "Delegates well", training and perhaps an adjustment of incentives may be able to effect a change. For others, such as "Integrity", the solution may lie in recruiting and replacement of leaders absent the required qualities. You track your success by periodically readministering the Strategic Leadership Profile to see if your efforts are closing the gaps and increasing your readiness.
And when you reassess, be sure to look at the Ideal Attribute Profile as well. None of these concepts are static, and as the strategy gets implemented, cultures evolve as well. The ideal may need adjusting.
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