This lead paper explores critical capabilities that leaders will need to thrive in a networked, global environment. We must forge new pathways, stepping through challenges with courage and looking to the possibilities – personally and professionally. What are some of the trends and how might leaders operate in future landscapes? What is important to focus on and why is it important right now?

1. Global Footprints: Navigating
Leadership for the future
Dr Cheryl Doig
#cheryldoig

2. 8500 aftershocks
A year in Christchurch…

3. Chch City
Mall
The
changing
songlines

6. DDI
• Leadership Development
• Talent Management
• Management Innovation
http://www.ddiworld.com/glf2011
Social Capital:
Building collaborative
cultures within and across schools
-Michael Fullan
http://www.cse.edu.au/Publications1.aspx

7. Boundary Spanning Leadership
• “Capability to establish direction, alignment and
commitment across boundaries in service of a
higher vision or goal.”
• (2008-9 study) 128 senior executives
• 86% said it was extremely important to work
effectively across boundaries - only 7% felt they
were very effective in doing so…
• http://www.ccl.org/leadership/pdf/research/Bou
ndarySpanningLeadership.pdf

8. Future Leadership Capabilities
Marshall Goldsmith
 Thinking globally
 Cross cultural diversity
 Technological savvy
 Building alliances and
partnerships
 Sharing leadership
 Learning agility
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0ARtWgAEvs&feature=related

9. Clarity Technological
savvy
Talent Management
Creativity
Relationships

10. Leadership for An iterative
Adaptive
the future model…
Ethical
Relationships
Contextual Networked
and
Behaviors
Self
regulating

11. Self Regulated

12. Self Regulated
• Leads self for learning: ACEL Leadership
Capability Framework
• Mindfulness
• The organising principle: Doing less - Not
multitasking
Key influencer: David Rock
Key stretch: Neuroleadership

13. Positional power to Influence
Away From Towards
• Telling • Learning Talk
• One off • 365 days of the year
• One way (either/or) • Multiple ways (and/both)
• Discussion • Dialogue & Discussion
• Advocacy • Inquiry and Advocacy
• Making assumptions • Checking for understanding
• Judgment • Evidence

14. Contextual

15. Contextual
• Diversity – age, gender, culture, language….
• Biased followers
• Intergenerational staff and stakeholders
• Key influencer: David Livermore
• Key stretch: Cultural Leadership

16. Culturally Intelligence
• Cultural intelligence (CQ) refers to the
capabiliity of individuals to function effectively
in multicultural contexts. Earley & Ang (2003)
We tend to be more able to more readily decode the
mental states of others in social groups closest to us;
thus, relative to those outside the group, we would
have an intra-cultural advantage.
Ringleb, Rock, Conser - “NeuroLeadership in 2010”

17. Cultural Intelligence
Leading with cultural intelligence doesn’t
mean being a chameleon to every individual
and situation encountered. But it does mean
knowing when an empowering style is most
necessary as compared to a more directive
one…. It requires discipline and hard work to
become more adaptable in how we inspire
and lead people in an increasingly diverse
world. And with that hard work, slowly but
surely, you can be a global leader.
http://davidlivermore.com/2011/09/09/can-you-really-be-a-global-leader/

18. Biased followers
• Researchers have found some universally
desired leadership traits among followers
everywhere, such as competence,
trustworthiness, and decisiveness.
• The expectations and stereotypes of followers
influence our leadership
• One size does not fit all
http://davidlivermore.com/2011/09/09/can-you-really-be-a-global-leader/

19. Adaptive
Landmarks
and
waterholes…
the songlines
are altered…

20. Adaptive
• Flexible
• Agile
• Conflict
• Managing polarities
• Key influencer: Heifetz, Grashow & Linsky
• Key stretch: Adaptive Leadership

21. Changing
Landscape
• Trauma
• Roll drop
• Staffing loss
• Property damage
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Possibilities
thinking

22. Capitalising on Complexity
• Better performers
manage complexity
• Creativity is the greatest
leadership quality needed
• Most successful
organisations co-create
products and services
with customers, and
integrate customers into
core processes
IBM Global CEO Study 2010

23. ©Think Beyond Ltd 2011 Cartoon by David Fletcher

24. Networked

25. Networked
• Collaboration is key
• Collective intelligence
• Sharism - Isaac Mao
• Share more gain more
• Heterarchy, wirearchy,
• Connectivism
• Amplification of ideas
• Key influencer: Mal Lee & Glenn Finger
• Key stretch: The internet of things

26. Collective Intelligence
Explains a groups performance on a wide variety of tasks
Collective intelligence is
not strongly correlated
with the average of
maximum individual
intelligence of group
members
Factors that were important:
– average social sensitivity (the ability to read and understand the
emotion of others) of group members,
– the quality in distribution of conversational turn-taking.
Ringleb, Rock, Conser - “NeuroLeadership in 2010”

27. Collaboration
Over 360,000 tonnes of liquifaction shovelled
Over 75,000 volunteer hours
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE5xbGYxa1ZGYm1yc2Z3cEhpcEg4WkE6MQ
http://testingground.samjohnson.co.nz/?page_id=7

29. Filter Bubble
We need the internet
to connect us all
together. We need it
to introduce us to new
ideas and new people
and different
Cartoon by David Fletcher
perspectives and it is
©Think Beyond Ltd 2011
not going to do that if
it leaves us all isolated
in a web of one. Eli Parisier
http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html

30. The footprints that we leave now have
a compelling impact on the next
generation of leaders.

31. Top stories…whose top stories?
25/09/11

32. Aimi Eguchi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh_BC_HU_lk&feature=related

33. Ethical
Relationships Behaviour
Dilemmas
Polarities Conflict
Moral purpose
Jan Robertson
http://www.icsei.net/icsei2011/Full%20Papers/0181.pdf
Michael Bezzina
http://research.acer.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=research_conference_2007

34. Shaking Up Christchurch Education
www.thinkbeyond.co.nz/suce/
• Learner focused
• Future focused
• System coherent
• Sustainable
To be a teacher you need to be a prophet – we are
preparing children for a world that does not exist yet.
– Peter Senge ACEL Conference, Adelaide 2011

35. Leadership for An iterative
Adaptive
the future model…
Ethical
Relationships
Contextual Networked
and
Behaviors
Self
regulating

36. The songs must be continually
sung to keep the land alive.

37. www.thinkbeyond.co.nz
c.doig@thinkbeyond.co.nz
www.alpineleadership.com
Dr Cheryl Doig
#cheryldoig
http://thefounta.in/WL5jH