Building Brilliant Learning Organisations releasing the potential of your team

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Building Brilliant Learning Organisationsrel
easing the potential of your team!
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Dont rebuild.. re-imagine.The New York
Times Magazine on the future of the World Trade
Centre
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our mission our ambition

• We want to be world class
• whatever it takes!

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.Indeed,
its the only thing that ever does!
Margaret Mead
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My personal philosophy

• Help everyone understand that the job is easy
• Show some enthusiasm
• Praise everyones efforts
• If it isnt working... change it
• Cut down on the paper
• Break the rules
• Get rid of the word I
• Share what everyone does
• Let them do it their way.

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Leadership matters!
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, Leadership is about Appetite for Life,
Action, Engagement, Initiative, Imagination,
Commitment, Great Causes, Trust, Fun, Joy,
Determination to Make a Damn Difference,
Brilliant Stories,Shared Adventures, Bizarre
Failures, Growth, and an Insatiable Appetite for
Change. Otherwise, why bother?
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Model the way.. ..clarify your values and align
your actionsInspire a shared vision.. ..share
your pictures of the future with
othersChallenge the process.. ..take risks and
seek ways to change, grow and improve and learn
from your mistakesEnable others to act..
..work with others, build trust and share
powerEncourage the heart.. ..recognise
contributions and celebrate successes.
The Five Practices of Exemplary
Leadership
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Success is NOT plan driven, it is NOT the product
of strategic thinking or planning or the product
of focus groups.
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Success is NEEDS driven, it is messy,
evolutionary, trivial, experimental and the
product of trial and error.
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Change your attitude!
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• Human beings can alter their lives by altering
  their attitudes.
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  William James

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What people think about themselves is the single
most important factor in their success.
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• It is as simple as thisthose who believe they
  can, can and those who believe they cant,
  cant. and it is no longer open to question.

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Culture matters!
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OUR Culture

• What we need is a "can do anything" culture
• A culture which
• is strategic
• empowers our teams
• celebrates success
• secures continuous improvement and
• delivers excellent services.
• A culture that we all model everyday!
• A culture that releases the magic!

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Three Simple Truths Great vision without
great people is irrelevant!

• Begin with who rather than what so that we
  can adapt as the world around us changes.
• If we have the right people on board the problem
  of how to motivate and manage them largely goes
  away.
• If we have the wrong people, it doesnt matter
  what we do we still wont create a great company.

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And Two Other Things Great vision without
great people is irrelevant!

• We need to attract an endless stream of talent.
  We must add outstanding people whenever and
  wherever we find themeven if we dont have a
  specific job in mind.
• We need to be clear and unambiguous that there
  are only seats for A players who are going to put
  in an A effort. Those who are not up for this
  had better find something else to do now!

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The Truth If you always tell the truth, you
dont have to remember what you said!

• We must create a culture and a climate where the
  truth is heard. We must
• ask questions and not always give answers.
• Engage in dialogue and debate not coercion.
• Conduct autopsies without blame.
• Build intelligent accountability systems that
  turn information into understanding.

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We need a revolution ..now!
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Analysing Performance
Culture of Discipline
BRILLIANT ORGANISATION
HIERARCHICAL ORGANISATION
BUREAUCRATIC ORGANISATION
NEW ORGANISATION
Culture of Creativity
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• We all want our organisations and our teams to
  be brilliant highly efficient, highly effective,
  improving and inclusive we must build places
  where everyone can be successful and high
  achieving whatever it takes.

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• We must build learning organisations. Learning
  is about engaging in intensive and concentrated
  activity. Learning is about passion and
  commitment. Learning is about experiences that
  demand discipline and that require the skilful
  use of mind and body.

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• We need to take this opportunity to re-invent
  and re-engineer our organisations and our systems
  building on the real excellence to eradicate the
  irrelevant, the second rate and the obsolete.

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OUR Heroes!
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Our job is to organise genius we need dreamers
with deadlines. We must innovate and create but
we must also deliver brilliant outcomes.
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In an age of value-added through imagination,
creativity and intellectual capital the
leaders job is to recruit, develop and retain
talent.
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OUR Stories!
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Passion moves mountains. Creating a passionate
enterprise is a modern leadership imperative.
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Have you changed the world today?
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the future

• Our greatest danger is not that we aim too high
  and we miss but that we aim too low and we reach
  it.
• Michelangelo

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And finally...

• ...those who say
• "it cannot be done"
• should not interrupt
• the person doing it.
• Chinese Proverb