Ten Minute Dispatches

Leadership Dispatch 15 - Leadership Capstone: This episode provides an overview for all of the concepts and frameworks we have explored in this leadership series. It starts with the foundation of influence as the currency of leadership. The levels we are developing include:

• How we lead ourselves.

• How we lead others.

• How we lead in specific circumstances.

<div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Leadership Dispatch 14: Leading via Culture - Infrastructure This episode is the second of two episodes that tackle culture as a tool for leadership. In this episode we explore the use of infrastructure in institutionalizing culture and that changes in that infrastructure can drive changes in culture. We look at three categories of infrastructure - governance, communication, and accelerators.

Leadership Dispatch 13: Leading via Culture - Values & Norms. This episode is the first of two episodes that tackle culture as a tool for leadership. In this episode we explore the philsophical approach to culture addressing belief, social norms, and our ever evolving culture.

Leadership Dispatch 12 - Leading in Circumstances, Leadership Models Part 2. This dispatch covers the leadership models and how they are applied, considering four vectors impacted by these models including outcomes, people, controls and context. This dispatch focuses on the leadership models that index on all vectors including:

• Transactional Leadership

• Authoritative Leadership

• Hierarchical Leadership

• Sitational Leadership

• Transformational Leadership

Mixing and changing models is covered as well.

Leadership Dispatch 11 - Leading in Circumstances, Leadership Models Part 1. This and the following dispatch covers the various, popular leadership models and how they are applied. We consider four vectors impacted by these models including outcomes, people, controls and context. This dispatch focuses on the leadership models that index on people including:

• Charismatic Leadership

• Democratic/Participative Leadership

• Servant Leadership

• Laissez-faire Leadership

Leadership Dispatch 10 - Leading Others, Creating a Leadership Incubator

Creating a leadership incubator allows you to lower the barriers to entry for developing a leadership cadre addressing:

• Cultural fit

• Subject matter expertise

• Leadership skills and capabilities

In this episode we introduce the concept of a leadership incubator with a use case describing the legacy circumstances, the desired performance outcomes, and the path we took to get there.

Leadership Dispatch 9 - Leading Others, Delivering Intelligence to Support Decision Making

In this dispatch we cover:

• Capturing, curating and packaging intelligence updates.

• Timing the updates for optimized freshness.

• Structuring the intelligence presentation for maximum impact.

If we identify the critical questions to ask and then curate the delivery of this intelligence we maintain a foundation of leadership knowledge upon which leaders can make wise decisions.

<div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Leadership Dispatch 8 - Leading Others, Decision Making

This dispatch tackles leadership decision making and what needs to be considered in building a foundation of leadership knowledge to support big decisions. This dispatch is the first in a two-part discussion about how to build and refresh that foundation of knowledge.

Leadership Dispatch 2 - Leading Ourselves, Establishing Our Purpose

In this dispatch we start the journey of leading ourselves by tackling our purpose. At the end of this dispatch you will have the tools to:

- Source your purpose.

- Strategically focus on the things that will drive and support your purpose.

- Find your sweet spot so that your remain replenished as you tackle your purpose.

Leadership Dispatch 7 - Leading Others, Qualities

In this dispatch we break the qualities out into what is needed to ensure success.

Engage with, Recruit, and Motivate Others in a Direction using: Emotional Intelligence, Empathy, Delegation, and Communication.

Sustaining the Effort, and the Others within the Effort, to Ensure a Trajectory Toward Success using: Integrity, Accountability, Decision-making, Adaptability, and Resilience.

Leadership Dispatch 6 - Leading Ourselves, Accountability

In this dispatch we tackle accountability for our purpose and commitments by first doing an inventory of:

- Our north stars

- Our current performance

We make our priorities and gaps actionable by establishing:

- Near-term milestones with stretch goals

- Weekly goals and daily tasks with a short retrospective assessment each week

Leadership Dispatch 5 - Leading Ourselves Elevating Practices Part 2

In this dispatch we com[plete the discussion around elevating practices. These practices are difficult to master. However if you do master them you are guaranteed to serve your purpose well.

The three practices covered in part 2 are broad multi-level awareness, tactical focus, and surrendering to the change.

Leadership Dispatch 4 Leading Ourselves Elevating Practices Part 1

In this dispatch we complete the discussion around elevating practices. These practices are difficult to master. However if you do master them you are guaranteed to serve your purpose well.

The two practices covered in part 1 are unconditional commitments and intense presence.

Leadership Dispatch 3 - Leading Ourselves, Manifesting Our Purpose

In this dispatch we continue the discussion about leading ourselves by establish our competence and confidence. We apply Agency, Focus, Curiosity, and Confidence to develop our capacities for:

• leadership

• subject matter expertise

• our operating context.

In 'Leadership Dispatch 1 - The Leadership Fundamentals' episode of the Ten Minute Leadership Dispatch series we establish the foundation for leadership and cover: - The series outline - The definition of leadership and a leader - Discusses the key currency of leadership - influence - Addresses the various types of influence

- The series outline

- The definition of leadership and a leader

- Discusses the key currency of leadership - influence

- Addresses the various types of influence

This video is a brief introduction to my new Ten Minute Dispatches -- Leadership series.

VDM Episode 2: We have a mechanism, via the S&O, for developing strategy and our big commitments. What ensures that we execute on those commitments? The PMO is the mechanism for ensuring the highest value solutions are delivered to meet those commitments with the least organizational churn. In this episode we overview the scope and responsibilities of a high performing PMO.

VDS Episode 9: Building Resilient Operations dives into what operations are, what they are used for, and common design considerations in the quest for a consistent, expected experience when engaging an organization. A well designed operation will, with high efficiency and precision, deliver a consistent output that is well managed and monitored.

VDS Episode 8: Guiding Organizations through Change tackles the change being forced on the organization as we develop and deploy those big solutions to meet our strategic commitments. Change curation ensures the organiztion is ready for the change and that we ultimately meet our adoption targets. Of the seven program success factors, it is by far the most complex aspect of success.

VDS Episode 6: Solutioning for Value is the stage in which we begin to translate our strategic commitments into real world organizational capability. Solutioning requires defining and aligning on the problem we are solving, ensuring we understand the solution's implications on other commitments we are delivering in this cycle, and that we complete solutioning understanding its strategic, operational, and systems impacts.

VDS Episode 5: In this dispatch we tackle translating our big strategic ideas into specific actionable outcomes. We use the Objectives-Key Results [OKRs] mechanism to provide an example of parsing our vision into actionable objectives, then further break them down into milestones via the KRs for efforts we are delivering in this or the upcoming cycle.

VDS Episode 4: This dispatch provides an overview of what a business model is, the types of business models that are popular, and factors we need to consider to operationalize the business model.

VDS Episode 3: In this episode of the Value Delivery Spine series we tackle the first stage of the framework, setting directional strategy. In this video we address the stakes at play and considerations for developing organizational strategy.

VDS Episode 2: In this Value Delivery Spine series episode desciribes the Value Delivery Spine Framework, the stages required and the guiding mechanisms structured to support the translation of strategic direction into delivered capability.

A short and sweet introduction to my Operations Architect blog highlighting the new ‘Ten Minute Dispatches’ videos feature.

I am passionate about forming effective strategy and translating that strategy into high performance organization capaility. Please enjoy the insights, hopefully learn something, and feedback is always welcome.

VDS Episode 1: Developing and executing on strategy is a high stakes effort filled with vagaries, complexities, and the potential of missteps. The organization's potential to thrive is on the line and most of the organization is involved with delivering the capability. To supercharge the value delivered we need an end-to-end understanding of what it takes.

VDM Episode 1: This dispatch presents the Strategy & Operations role as one of the mechanisms of the value delivery spine in supercharging our ability to translate strategy into operating capability.