THE PARADIGM SHIFT

don’t play the leadership lottery

The leadership lottery is a game of chance - give leaders as much exposure as possible, hope that they learn something useful. This is a messy, inefficient process that produces leaders constrained by functional understanding.

However, the hard skills provided by 3Elements® Leadership Science™ means leaders can be made by choice rather than by chance.

This takes the guesswork out of leadership development, and enables the creation of professional leaders.

make professional leaders

Professional leadership is defined by standards and measurement.

Standards describe the outcomes of effective leadership, and measurement reveals progress towards these outcomes.

This creates a holistic concept of leadership that shows how existing knowledge, experience and intuition can be applied into different situations, making the professional leader effective across a wide range of contexts.

Professional leadership is based on reproducible standards

Professional standards describe the outcomes associated with a given profession.

For these standards to be meaningful, they must be reproducible – meaning that different professionals in different situations can achieve the same outcomes.

►Soft skills cannot define reproducible standards because they have variable outcomes.

►Hard skills standards are reproducible because they have clear and fixed outcomes.

Leadership Science^_™ provides a hard skills framework that guides the use of soft skills

Reproducible standards allow direct measurement

Reproducible standards allow direct measurement – because clearly defined outcomes can be clearly measured.

►Without direct measurement, we need to rely on proxy indicators – such as business performance, KPIs, survey feedback or general impressions.

►Proxy indicators provide vague, ambiguous or even misleading feedback that makes it difficult for the organisation to recognize and reward effective leadership.

With Leadership Science™ frameworks, direct measurement produces clear and actionable feedback - allowing professional leaders to make meaningful changes, and increase actual leadership effectiveness.

Getting started with Leadership Science™

Development programs based on Leadership Science™ frameworks are easy to scale because the science doesn’t change.

The Leadership Science™ Atlas provides an overview of the journey that a professional leader will undertake, providing clarity for long-term career planning and resource management.

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