In the next 20 years, 10 thousand people a day are going to be retiring.

One of the challenges we have in organisations today is that we have not equipped the leaders to lead the workforce. Now as the old guard starts to leave the business and the new generation comes through, how are we going to prepare ourselves as the next generation to be the leaders of that workforce.

In collaboration with today’s guest, Maureen Metcalf, we gave this episode a tongue in cheek name: Don’t be the flip phone of leadership.

One of the things she’s going to share with us is her Competency Framework to avoid being that flip phone of leadership.

Maureen is the CEO of Metcalf & Associates, a renowned executive advisor, author, speaker and coach who brings 30 years of business experience to provide high-impact, practical solutions that support her clients’ leadership development and organizational transformations.

Maureen designs and teaches MBA classes in Leadership and Organizational Transformation.

She hosts her own international radio show focusing on innovative leadership, and she is the author Innovative Leaders Guide to Transforming Organizations, winner of a 2014 International Book Award.

In the show this week:

* The Flip Phone of Leadership

* What does the future of leadership look like?

* The Strategists Competency Framework

* How does this Strategists Competency Framework help us as leaders?

* How to learn more about the Competency Framework and Maureen Metcalf

Links:

* Level 5 Leaders

* Metcalf-Associates.com

* Maureen’s Facebook Page

 

The Flip Phone of Leadership

Maureen has worked with leaders for a number of years trying to transform organisations. ‘Trying’ because the success rate varies between organisations.

What Maureen has seen are well-intended, skilled leaders moving forward with transformations, but often were not changing themselves at the same rate as they were changing their businesses. So that they became the problem.

She watched them launch programs and then be exited.

What we offer as leaders, our skill, is leadership. And if we are not staying current in how we lead, we are likely to get left behind. Much like the flip phone.

It’s therefore very important to focus on our own professional development.

What does the future of leadership look like?

Maureen has worked with Mike Morrow-Fox and Susan Cannon to look at how leadership has evolved over the centuries and define the competency model for what we will need going forward.

This is based largely on developmental psychology. If we think of Jim Collins’ reference to Level 5 Leaders, he describes a leadership hierarchy. When Maureen draws this out, she draws a series of concentric circles so rather than going up the ladder, she looks at expanding capacity.

In this way, you don’t lose what you started with, but as you go up through levels of the organisation, you continue to develop in various ways.

As the world becomes more interconnected, we begin to outsource various functions of our business and so are partnering in more significant ways with companies based all over the world.

This often means to make changes within our organisation, we are having to collaborate with a number of partners where in the past we would walk down the hall and tell our CFO to change something.

This requires a different skillset from leaders of today and going forward.

The Strategist Competency Framework

There are 7 competencies that Maureen highlights we should have as strategic leaders,...