Leadership Development Strategy & Strategic Planning

The Chicken and Egg Puzzle

Dr. Elijah EzenduFIMC, FCCM, FIIAN, FBDI, FAAFM, FSSM, MIMIS, MIAP, MITD, ACIArb, ACIPM,

PhD, DocM, MBA, CWM, CBDA, CMA, MPM, PME, CSOL, CCIP, CMC, CMgr

Exploratory Supposition

• Can effective strategic planning yield appropriate leadership development strategy?

• How can leadership development strategy positively impact business results?

Conventional Codependency of Strategic Planning and Leadership Development Strategy by Elijah Ezendu

Propensity for Assurance

“Even the best strategy can fail if a corporation doesn’t have a cadre of leaders with the right capabilities at the right levels of the organization.” - Tsun-yan Hsieh and Sara Yik, Leadership as the Starting Point

“A good leader can make a success of a weak business plan, but a poor leader can ruin even the best plan.” - Oracle White Paper, Seven Steps for Effective Leadership Development

Mutual Impingement of Strategic Planning and Leadership Development Strategy

Strategic Planning

Leadership Development Strategy

Mutual Impingement

Implementation Imperative for Achieving Envisioned State by Elijah Ezendu

Envisioned State

Strategic Planning

Strategic Plan

Leadership Development

Strategy

Leaders

Coordinated Alignment of Limbs

Generative Approach to Strategic Planning

Currently, this is the most advanced approach to strategic planning. It involves drafting of workable strategic plan and evolving it through Pilot Modelling, All-Inclusive Reflective Tests, Due Diligence, Review-Improve-Align, Systematic Evaluation and Continuous Coursing.

Capturing Generative Approach to Strategic Planning by Elijah Ezendu

Continuous Coursing

“There is a strong emphasis in this approach, as the name implies, on generativity—producing something, learning by doing, trying it out, ‘letting it all hang out’. Risk-taking and pilot-testing reside at the heart of this approach… It makes sense in a highly turbulent environment, for one must act quickly and learn quickly to keep up with the shifting conditions. It is not enough to create a learning organization, one must create a ‘fast-learning’ organization—which is even more challenging in terms of cognitive flexibility and willingness to learn from mistakes (as well as successes).” - Dr William Bergquist, Generative Planning

Traditional Versus Generative Planning Model

Action Traditional Generative Primary Purpose Coordination and Control Strategic Change Planning Creation of Plan Development of Strategic

Thinking Level of Involvement Limited Primarily to Senior and

Division Managers Broadly Inclusive of Diverse Members at all Levels

Nature of Involvement Through Written Communication, Directed Upward Advocacy Mode

Dialogue-Based Advocacy and Inquiry Mode Hypothesis Driven

Timing Periodic, Calendar Driven Episodic, Issue Driven Competencies Required Analytic Alternative Generation and

Evaluation, Conflict Resolution Leadership Role Strategic Thinker, Decision-

Generator Process-Enabler, Synthesizer

Contextual Elements Clarity in Providing Objectives and Planning Guidelines

Clarity of Purpose, Organizational Sense of Urgency, Psychological Safety

Source: Jeanne Liedtka, Strategic Planning as a Contributor to Strategic Change: A generative Model

Systematic Flow from Strategic Planning to Leadership Development Strategy by Elijah Ezendu

Strategic Planning

Strategic Plan

Strategic Manning Template

Enabling Culture Strategic Business Capability Model Business Process Model

Leadership Development Strategy

Enabling Culture

This is usually a resolution derived from Strategic Plan by ascertaining culture-fit through operability, fluidity and effectuality.

Interactivity of Culture and Strategy

Source: Elijah Ezendu, Cultural Analysis

Corporate Culture

“Corporate culture is a system of shared values, assumptions, beliefs, and norms that unite the members of an organization.” - Kathryn Bartol, Management

Strategic Business Capability Model

This refers to a well-articulated assessment of capacity, material and expertise required for achievement of stated strategic plan; showing clear-cut requirements at various development milestones.

Business Process Model

This shows all the processes required for driving the strategic plan in an organization. It actually represents how contributory actions shall be put together in order to produce value and thereby attain goals.

Strategic Manning Template

This shows various organizational growth/operational levels and the resulting staff requirements at each level. It throws light on required ‘staff mix’ in terms of type, competencies, quantity, distribution and evolutionary connectivity. It functions as standardized projected staff schedule. This is the backbone of Staffing Excellence.

Key Tools for Development of Strategic Manning Template

• Workload Analysis• Workforce Modelling • Benchmarking• Variability Analysis• Profitability Analysis• Business Capability Analysis• Strategic Concatenation Analysis

From Strategic Manning Template to Business Results

Strategic Manning Template facilitates identification of required leaders for achievement of business goals. This in turn enables ascertainment and clarification of ensuing gap in the leadership pipeline and the best leadership development strategy for filling-fit, so as to ensure favourable business results in line with strategic intent.

Dr Elijah Ezendu is Award-Winning Business Expert & Certified Management Consultant with expertise in Interim Management, Strategy, Competitive Intelligence, Transformation, Restructuring, Turnaround Management, Business Development, Marketing, Project & Cost Management, Leadership, HR, CSR, e-Business & Software Architecture. He had functioned as Founder, Initiative for Sustainable Business Equity; Chairman of Board, Charisma Broadcast Film Academy; Group Chief Operating Officer, Idova Group; CEO, Rubiini (UAE); Special Advisor, RTEAN; Director, MMNA Investments; Chair, Int’l Board of GCC Business Council (UAE); Senior Partner, Shevach Consulting; Chairman (Certification & Training), Coordinator (Board of Fellows), Lead Assessor & Governing Council Member, Institute of Management Consultants, Nigeria; Lead Resource, Centre for Competitive Intelligence Development; Lead Consultant/ Partner, JK Michaels; Turnaround Project Director, Consolidated Business Holdings Limited; Technical Director, Gestalt; Chief Operating Officer, Rohan Group; Executive Director (Various Roles), Fortuna, Gambia & Malta; Chief Advisor/ Partner, D & E; Vice Chairman of Board, Refined Shipping; Director of Programmes & Governing Council Member, Institute of Business Development, Nigeria; Member of TDD Committee, International Association of Software Architects, USA; Member of Strategic Planning and Implementation Committee, Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria; Country Manager (Nigeria) & Adjunct Faculty (MBA Programme), Regent Business School, South Africa; Adjunct Faculty (MBA Programme), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology; Editor-in-Chief, Cost Management Journal; Council Member, Institute of Internal Auditors of Nigeria; Member, Board of Directors (Several Organizations). He holds Doctoral Degree in Management, Master of Business Administration and Fellow of Professional Institutes in North America, UK & Nigeria. He is Innovator of Corporate Investment Structure Based on Financials and Intangibles, for valuation highlighting intangible contributions of host communities and ecological environment: A model celebrated globally as remedy for unmitigated depreciation of ecological capital and developmental deprivation of host communities. He had served as Examiner to Professional Institutes and Universities. He had been a member of Guild of Soundtrack Producers of Nigeria. He's an author and extensively featured speaker.

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