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Leadership Intensives / The System

Strategic and Systems Skills

Reading the system that keeps producing a problem, rather than solving the problem in front of you each time.

$4,000

six sessions

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What This Focus Area Builds

These are the capabilities the Intensive develops. Which of them the work concentrates on is set with your Leadership Faculty member, from where you actually need to grow.

  1. 01

    Diagnosing before deciding: technical vs adaptive challenges

  2. 02

    Mapping the system that keeps producing the problem

  3. 03

    Reading stakeholders, incentives, and informal networks

  4. 04

    Moving from your function's view to the enterprise view

  5. 05

    Building a strategic narrative others can act on

What It Includes

  • Six individual sessions with a member of the Leadership Faculty
  • The Insight Leadership Skill Assessment - a self-assessment of your competence across the skills that decide performance in complex environments
  • Structured exercises and work between sessions

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Creating the psychological safety and productive disagreement that innovation depends on.

Leading Through Uncertainty

Leading and deciding when the answer is not known and others are looking to you.

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Start with a conversation

Fifteen minutes with a member of the Leadership Faculty, at no cost. Tell us what you are facing and we will tell you whether this is the right Intensive for it.

Book a 15-minute intro call