Leading an organization through constant change and disruption requires embracing the Enterprise Agility Way of Thinking (EAWT). The Leadership Aspect in Enterprise Agility provides guidance for executives and managers on how to mobilize and empower their workforce to thrive during accelerated change.
The Leadership Aspect focuses on developing leaders who act as change agents rather than commanders. These leaders promote the EAWT values defined in Shared Progress. They utilize EAWT change models that provide a structured approach for inspiring change, overcoming resistance, and achieving sustainable results even during stressful times.
A key focus area is equipping leaders to effectively sense emerging opportunities, threats, and changes needed within the organization. Leaders are trained on EAWT Collective Strategic Sensing techniques to gather insights across three areas:
- Self-Sensing - Understanding their own biases/blindspots
- Sensing the Organization - Gathering insights from workforce and partners
- Sensing the Market - Identifying external threats and opportunities
With improved sensing capabilities, leaders can detect crucial signals and guide more dynamic strategy adjustments aligned to the EAWT. Other key elements of the Leadership Aspect include:
- Strategic Mobility - Leaders adopt an agile and adaptive strategic planning process that continually integrates sensing inputs to refine strategy.
- EAWT Change Models - Frameworks like the Change Journey Pyramid and Circle framework give leaders tools to diagnose their organization's change readiness, identify resistance points, and develop targeted interventions to accelerate change adoption.
- Shared Progress - It provides the dynamics to build an organization ready for an uncertain future.
- M-leadership concepts - The concepts from the M-leadership framework, such as the Leadership multiplier and others, help executives re-align an organization in record time and with low stress levels.
The Leadership Aspect equips executives with the EAWT mindsets, skillsets and toolsets required for change leadership today. It enables more flexible and resilient navigation of disruption through empowered and aligned workforces equipped to rapidly sense threats and opportunities. With the Leadership Aspect, executives can confidently guide their organizations into the future.