Why do leaders need an Evidence-Based Leadership program?
To prove—and to improve—your strategic impact.
Leading an organization to high-performance is not just about getting things done. Ticking boxes is not evidence of impact. We only get evidence of impact by measuring results or outcomes.
Firstly, it’s important to objectively prove that your organization’s mission is being fulfilled, its vision is being realized, and its strategic goals are being achieved. Secondly, it’s important to improve the organization’s systems and processes, to increase strategic impact, through high-leverage strategic initiatives.
To prove and to improve your strategic impact, you must measure.
Too often, strategy has no measurable impact.
It is very common for executive leaders to struggle to measure and prove the impact of their business strategy:
- The strategy is so broad and intangible that it is hard to measure meaningfully.
- Initiatives and improvement projects do not show a direct strategic contribution.
- People are not engaged in aligning their results to the corporate strategy.
Evidence-based leaders know what to focus on, what to monitor and what to leverage to move an organization from guessing to knowing—and then to performing. They know how to create a culture of high-performance and measurable success.
It's not only about about HOW to lead—but WHAT to lead.
Evidence-based leadership is about what to give our attention to as we lead. It is not about how to communicate or how to inspire or how to direct or how to engage. It is about learning to apply all these attributes in a single framework to create a high-performance organization.
Evidence-based leadership is the roadmap to fulfill your mission, realize your vision, and achieve your strategic goals, sooner and with less effort. It requires adopting, practicing, inspiring and promoting the habits of high-performance.
There are three leadership habits of high-performance that leaders practice and master, to lead an organization that performs with excellence what it exists to do:
1) Direction: Designing and setting a measurable strategy
2) Evidence: Meaningfully measuring what matters
3) Execution: Implementing strategy through leverage
And there are three organizational habits of high-performance that leaders inspire, embed and support to build an engaged, high-performance culture throughout the organization:
1) Decision: Everyone chooses to own the strategy
2) Action: Everyone gets the right things done
3) Learning: Everyone turns failure into success
The evidence-based leadership program is where to start.
The Evidence-Based Leadership (EBL) Program is based on the groundbreaking work of Stacey Barr, renowned organizational performance measurement specialist. The methodology that underpins the program is detailed in her bestselling book, Prove It!
The EBL Program facilitates your leadership team through the first iteration of clarifying, measuring, communicating and cascading your strategic direction. It also gives you the practical skills for each EBL habit so you can continue to lead with evidence, with deep engagement from everyone, organization-wide.
Part of the EBL experience will feel like the conversation your leadership team should have had—years ago. The program is hands-on, expertly facilitated through practical and proven steps to:
- Make your business strategy outcome-oriented
- Make your strategic goals measurable and easier to communicate
- Design meaningful strategic performance measures
- Plan the communication, cascading and execution of your strategy
Your investment in the program.
We recommend your entire leadership team participates in this program, to get the most ownership of your strategy and the most consistency in its execution.
The EBL Program is anchored in a strong and proven methodology, which we are happy to customize to meet your needs. Our aim is to adapt the program to ensure that:
- It is sensitive to the time constraints of your senior leaders.
- It has a keen focus on creating and completing the suite of strategic KPIs for your current strategic direction.
- It provides clear steps to build the right kind of strategic KPI dashboard to report your new strategic KPIs.
- It gives the right amount of structured support to cascading strategy and engaging the rest of your organization in taking ownership of, and executing, your business strategy.
Imagine your strategy is now clearly understood by everyone, cascaded to every team, and executed so that it is measurably achieved. What would that be worth to you?
For more information on how the EBL Program can help your organization's management team design a measurable strategy that engages and motivates your teams, please send us a message.