What is an Evergreen Leader?
Evergreen leaders have specific skills, attitudes and behaviors that make them much more adaptable to our current turbulent business environment. They are able to continually adapt and adjust – ensuring that the organizations they lead can do the same, remaining vital and vibrant. These attributes include being:
- Self Aware of their strengths and challenges and how that impacts their leadership
- Aligned with the organization’s values, vision and purpose and grounded to the fact that this is the unchanging core
- Creates new possibilities by questioning assumptions, reframing problems, reflecting and visioning, and approaching old situations in new ways
- Excellent communicators who can listen deeply and engage in two-way dialogue, be transparent and straight forward and can ask profound questions that challenge others to be their best
- Able to engage the collective intellect, energy and wisdom of the group to achieve unleash the power of the team to create a positive future
- A systems thinker considering all stakeholders, inside and out, when making decisions
- Able to plan well and execute even better
- A leader who develops others with focus and intention, is a coach and mentor
- Has both external and internal Contextual Prowess. Carves unique niches in the external market and is agile in working within the internal culture.
- Is unfailingly Curious – a constant explorer and learner.
What are the underpinnings of our Leadership Development Process?
We use 5 primary methods in our leadership development process: Individual Coaching, Group Coaching, Leadership Labs, 360 feedback and assessment tools. All our methodology is focused around this core:
- The work is done within the context of the organization’s vision, values and objectives.
- The focus is on the real challenges your leaders face in the trenches – not theory.
- We use a strength based approach to bring everyone’s best talents and skills forward.
- The process insists on and instills accountability – through planning, commitment, and follow up.
- Relevant action learning assignments deliver real results in a context of rich learning.
