Detailed Structure
The Five Arenas (A1-A5) are presented separately below. Within each arena, the elements (E1-E18) that make up that arena are listed. You can toggle each element title to view the components (C1-C47) and topics that make up each element.
Practices
A1: Directional Leadership
(Create and Guide)
Create the future and guide people towards it.
Provide meaning, clarify your direction and paint a clear picture of the vision.
Components:
- C1: Clarify Purpose
- C2: Clarify DNA
- C3: Clarify Value Proposition
- C4: Clarify Major Goals Targets, and Milestones
- C5: Illuminate Vision.
Understand the gap between your current reality and your vision and identify the priority issues that will close the gap.
Components:
- C6: Conduct External Analysis
- C7: Conduct Internal Analysis
- C8: Identify and Develop Priority Issues
Manage your priority issues and develop and implement a vision achievement plan.
Components:
- C9: Manage Priority Issues
- C10: Develop and Implement Vision Achievement Plan
Keep the elements needed to achieve vision fit and aligned on your journey to achieve vision.
Components:
- C11: Align Design and Systems and Ensure Ongoing Fitness
- C12: Align Ability and Culture and Ensure Ongoing Fitness
- C13: Align Stakeholder Perceptions and Expectations
A4: Transformational Leadership
(Innovate and Change)
Innovate and change to sustain success.
Ensure forward progress through continual improvement and innovation.
Components:
- 39: Inspire and bring about continual improvement
- C40: Inspire and bring about innovation
Start, direct and embed change.
Components:
- C41: Paint a clear picture of the end state and the required journey
- C42: Create readiness and commitment to the journey
- C43: Align work and support services
- C44: Align responsibility areas, roles, and structure
- C45: Align systems and management processes
- C46: Align people cabability
- C47: Entrench new culture
A1: Directional Leadership
(Create and Guide)
Create the future and guide people towards it.
Provide meaning, clarify your direction and paint a clear picture of the vision.
Components:
- C1: Clarify Purpose
- C2: Clarify DNA
- C3: Clarify Value Proposition
- C4: Clarify Major Goals Targets, and Milestones
- C5: Illuminate Vision.
Understand the gap between your current reality and your vision and identify the priority issues that will close the gap.
Components:
- C6: Conduct External Analysis
- C7: Conduct Internal Analysis
- C8: Identify and Develop Priority Issues
Manage your priority issues and develop and implement a vision achievement plan.
Components:
- C9: Manage Priority Issues
- C10: Develop and Implement Vision Achievement Plan
Keep the elements needed to achieve vision fit and aligned on your journey to achieve vision.
Components:
- C11: Align Design and Systems and Ensure Ongoing Fitness
- C12: Align Ability and Culture and Ensure Ongoing Fitness
- C13: Align Stakeholder Perceptions and Expectations
A2: Managerial Leadership
(Execute and Deliver)
Execute plans and deliver goals.
Make sure that the conditions for efficient operations have been created.
Components:
- C14: Optimise and Integrate Work and Interface Points
- C15: Clarify Policies and Procedures
- C16: Clarify Authority Framework
- C17: Clarify Practices and Behaviour.
Plan and execute your operations and deliver your goals.
Components:
- C18: Plan Operations
- C19: Organise and Resource Operations
- C20: Monitor and Control Operations.
Make sure that the sourcing and treatment of people forms a strong foundation for efficient operations.
Components:
- C21: Conduct Workforce Planning
- C22: Conduct Succession Planning
- C23: Ensure Fair and Value-enhancing Employment Conditions and Relations
Make sure each member of your team understands what their responsibilities and expected output is and ensure they are adding the required value.
Components:
- C24: Clarify Responsibilities, Delegate Authority, and Ensure Accountability
- C25: Set Individual Performance Expectations
- C26: Review and Manage Performance
A2: Managerial Leadership
(Execute and Deliver)
Execute plans and deliver goals.
Make sure that the conditions for efficient operations have been created.
Components:
- C14: Optimise and Integrate Work and Interface Points
- C15: Clarify Policies and Procedures
- C16: Clarify Authority Framework
- C17: Clarify Practices and Behaviour.
Plan and execute your operations and deliver your goals.
Components:
- C18: Plan Operations
- C19: Organise and Resource Operations
- C20: Monitor and Control Operations.
Make sure that the sourcing and treatment of people forms a strong foundation for efficient operations.
Components:
- C21: Conduct Workforce Planning
- C22: Conduct Succession Planning
- C23: Ensure Fair and Value-enhancing Employment Conditions and Relations
Make sure each member of your team understands what their responsibilities and expected output is and ensure they are adding the required value.
Components:
- C24: Clarify Responsibilities, Delegate Authority, and Ensure Accountability
- C25: Set Individual Performance Expectations
- C26: Review and Manage Performance
A3: Interactional Leadership
(Engage and Develop)
Engage and develop your most important asset.
Touch hearts and minds to ensure switched on and willing staff.
Components:
- C27: Cultivate an open and trusting environment
- C28: Shape values
- C29: Care for staff
- C30: Engage minds
- C31: Communicate and inspire.
Ensure staff participation and empower them to succeed.
Components:
- C32: Involve staff
- C33: Empower staff.
Identify development needs and plan and manage development actions to yield capable and growing staff.
Components:
- C34: Identify development needs
- C35: Plan and manage development.
Build team cohesion in order to produce a united and constructive team.
Components:
- C36: Unite the team around shared goals
- C37: Ensure constructive relationships and teamwork
- C38: Ensure fairness and value-add.
A3: Interactional Leadership
(Engage and Develop)
Engage and develop your most important asset.
Touch hearts and minds to ensure switched on and willing staff.
Components:
- C27: Cultivate an open and trusting environment
- C28: Shape values
- C29: Care for staff
- C30: Engage minds
- C31: Communicate and inspire.
Ensure staff participation and empower them to succeed.
Components:
- C32: Involve staff
- C33: Empower staff.
Identify development needs and plan and manage development actions to yield capable and growing staff.
Components:
- C34: Identify development needs
- C35: Plan and manage development.
Build team cohesion in order to produce a united and constructive team.
Components:
- C36: Unite the team around shared goals
- C37: Ensure constructive relationships and teamwork
- C38: Ensure fairness and value-add.
A4: Transformational Leadership
(Innovate and Change)
Innovate and change to sustain success.
Ensure forward progress through continual improvement and innovation.
Components:
- 39: Inspire and bring about continual improvement
- C40: Inspire and bring about innovation
Start, direct and embed change.
Components:
- C41: Paint a clear picture of the end state and the required journey
- C42: Create readiness and commitment to the journey
- C43: Align work and support services
- C44: Align responsibility areas, roles, and structure
- C45: Align systems and management processes
- C46: Align people cabability
- C47: Entrench new culture
Person
A5: Core of Leadership
(Protect and Master)
Protect the core. Master the key leadership characteristics and continually learn and grow.
Keep people at the centre of your leadership task. Give them purpose, significance, belonging, care, and hope.
Things to do:
- Provide a sense of purpose
- Provide opportunities for self-expression
- Build authentic relationships
- Provide challenge and growth
- Provide hope
- Be quick to offer recognition
- Be grateful
- Have fun
- Treat honetst failures as learning steps
- Celebrate success.
Always act with courage and integrity. Be accountable. Have self-control as well as passion. Pursue clarity and focus.
Key Characteristics:
- Courage
- Integrity
- Accountability
- Self-control
- Passion
- Clarity and Focus
Never stop learning. Continually improve your knowledge and competencies and increase your relevance and performance.
Learning Methods:
- Formal development
- Informal development
- Experiential learning
- Self-development
Reflect honestly on your impact as well as your environment so that you can make an increasingly authentic and appropriate contribution.
Self-reflection Steps:
- Reflection
- Awareness
- Insight
- Recognition
- Action
- Improvement
A5: Core of Leadership
(Protect and Master)
Protect the core. Master the key leadership characteristics and continually learn and grow.
Keep people at the centre of your leadership task. Give them purpose, significance, belonging, care, and hope.
Things to do:
- Provide a sense of purpose
- Provide opportunities for self-expression
- Build authentic relationships
- Provide challenge and growth
- Provide hope
- Be quick to offer recognition
- Be grateful
- Have fun
- Treat honetst failures as learning steps
- Celebrate success.
Always act with courage and integrity. Be accountable. Have self-control as well as passion. Pursue clarity and focus.
Key Characteristics:
- Courage
- Integrity
- Accountability
- Self-control
- Passion
- Clarity and Focus
Never stop learning. Continually improve your knowledge and competencies and increase your relevance and performance.
Learning Methods:
- Formal development
- Informal development
- Experiential learning
- Self-development
Reflect honestly on your impact as well as your environment so that you can make an increasingly authentic and appropriate contribution.
Self-reflection Steps:
- Reflection
- Awareness
- Insight
- Recognition
- Action
- Improvement