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Johan Beeckmans |
Johan Beeckmans’s extensive
international expertise in leadership, strategy and management development
has been built over a
25 year career in key Human Resources roles and senior
positions with international companies in the US and Europe. He is also Senior Associate at MCE and he talks
about Leadership development.
How to change the mindset?
What makes now a great and successful leaders
is not anymore the most important question. It is about how to change the
mindset? This can be done following the four step approach.
- Self-awareness
Great
managers have a wide range of competencies to draw on. They understand their
strengths and weaknesses, their preferences, what makes them tick, what they
avoid and how they learn. They know themselves well. Successful leaders learn from
listening to others and from feedback. They are open to listen to feedback and
make the necessary changes in their behaviors in order to plan their own
stages of development. And becoming a
more complex thinker, they focus on vertical development i.e, the steps to
become a more complex thinker.
- Inspiring the Team
- Leading in a complex world
- Create your Personal Leadership Brand
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the experience and capability of team members
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the complexity of the task
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time pressures and resource availability
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the risks that result from under-performance
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the organization’s culture or norms.
Finally,
they keep an open mind and observe their impact, watch out for changes in the
situation that demand a different approach, and assess changes in the climate
they are
creating for their team.
Managing your personal brand requires leaders to be a great role model, mentor, and / or a voice that others can depend upon.
Managing your personal brand requires leaders to be a great role model, mentor, and / or a voice that others can depend upon.
A
major part of leadership development is helping people develop how they think.
How they get to an answer matters more than ever. The
focus is on the individual’s responsibility for own development. And it starts
with the self-awareness and the ability to change the mindset. When people are confronted with increased complexity and challenge that can’t be
reconciled with what they know and can do at their current level, people have to
take the next step. Development accelerates when people are able to identify
the assumptions that are holding them at their current level of development and
find a way to do something about it.
Where
to start? A starting point can come from redefining what is meant by the term
leadership. It is not anymore the heroic leader with the 5, 7, 10 traits that
makes them successful. Leadership is a process of mobilizing people to face
difficult challenges, process of inspiring teams to high performance; process
of leading in a complex world and above all to create a leadership brand. Who
is the leader becomes less important than what is needed in the system and how we
can produce it.
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