Developing and leveraging leadership in everyday business
Leadership development practices, especially those drawing on curriculum-based interventions in leadership seminars and training programs are in danger of losing their appeal to managers. This particularly applies to leaders who feel that the various seminars they attended (or even worse, had to attend) further burdened their already overladen agendas, and that the content was too far removed from the real-world requirements and challenges they face. Such lack of acceptance is a serious impediment to improving effectiveness. Leadership is thus at risk of losing its chance to make a difference, in relation to the way people act in an organisation and the outcomes they produce for the company. Boxenstopps represent a conscious and targeted contribution toward developing and leveraging leadership in everyday business. In Boxenstopps leadership know-how is developed by focusing on
(1) the specific working relations between leaders and their team members,
(2) cohesion and coordination within teams, and
(3) the orchestration of team activities with external stakeholders.
By preparing Boxenstopps with leaders individually and evaluating their outcomes, capable leaders acquire a very valuable resource for their personal development.
Boxenstopps foster a reflective dialogue between the strategic and individual meaning of leadership that is crucial for leveraging leadership on the organisational level.