One Leadership Team, Aligned and Fearless

2019 FL Red_RegisteredFearless Leadership® is accessing untapped potential. It’s the courageous shift to engage in essential conversations that build trust and move us forward.

Create the conditions for organisational success by fully leveraging the professional expertise and combined wisdom of your senior leadership team. One team, aligned and fearless.

Right now many executive teams face these challenges:

  • Big delivery agenda and/or significant change planned, with much at stake. The board, key stakeholders and markets are watching executive performance.
  • Leaders are working in silos. Smart divisional heads are not working as an organisational leadership team focused on a shared purpose
  • Low trust within the leadership team, with different styles leading to misunderstanding and friction.
  • Lack of cabinet solidarity. The team lacks safety and decisions and agreements are made with little real debate, and are not supported outside the boardroom.
  • Inappropriate or incongruent behaviour goes unchallenged. Leadership teams can lose sight of community values and stakeholder expectations.
  • Staff are watching, and not liking what they see. People across your organisation aren’t adopting the values posted on the walls – they are following the lead from the executive behaviour they experience, and it’s not always pretty.
  • Limited and inward facing focus, so faint signals of opportunity and risk in the external environment are easily missed, putting a sustainable future in jeopardy.

How Fearless is Your Leadership Team?

Executive teams range from Oblivious to Dysfunctional to Fearless with their culture, ability to meet objectives, and effort-to-impact ratios varying greatly. Fearless leadership teams operate in a league of their own.

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The Results

The transformational outcomes of Fearless Leadership are game changing:

  • Aligned and clear: Your team’s agreed and shared purpose aligns with the organisation. The team works as one.
  • Shared vision: There is clarity on the organisation you want to be and what you stand for.
  • Communication that builds not bruises: Your team is equipped to constructively surface and address underlying tensions.
  • Decisions made and honoured: Team decisions are confidently and robustly debated, then committed to and upheld by the entire team
  • Accountability: Team members hold themselves and each other accountable for individual and collective successes and failures.
  • Courageous culture: Your leadership team models the Fearless dynamic needed for success. Inappropriate or incongruent behaviour goes is challenged and addressed in real time.
  • Confidence and safety: Trust across the team creates an enhanced appetite for innovation and risk. They have each other’s backs.
  • Inclusion that generates results: Leverage the diversity of your team – Decision-making, personal styles and professional expertise.
  • External awareness: Tuned into external context and abreast of strategic opportunities and threats to secure a sustainable.
  • Organisational success: Flows from a leadership team that connects deeply, leads fearlessly and delivers transformational results.

Executive development with an edge! Fearless Leadership teams create the future.

This program has helped us to mature – in our individual leadership and as an executive team. We are prepared to have challenging conversations in a respectful way. We now have less silos and greater collaboration, making better use of resources across the organisation. An unintended consequence of the program has been increased confidence in how we engage with the board. The board has been pleased to see the executive investing in their relationships and has observed emerging benefits. You would be surprised about how far you can come… It’s not until you go through this program that you realise what you could gain and have gained.

Damien Walsh
Managing Director, Bank Australia

I approach executive team development and team build with a degree of scepticism! Corrinne understood where I was coming from and challenged me – and the whole team – to be better. The conversations we had as an executive team built on each other, without feeling like we were being fitted into a plan. Corrinne is flexible and knew when to push us and when to hold us in a conversation, resulting in people taking risks with personal disclosure, and growing from that, both individually and holistically as a team.

Peter Skeels
General Manager Operations, Gippsland Water

Right from the beginning I had confidence that Corrinne completely understood our challenges. Her approach ensures we invest and space for honest reflection on where we are now, where we need to get to, and an honest assessment of what’s required to be successful. Her methodology brings out the right conversations and holds us there while we work through issues. Corrinne’s ability to customise and adjust as needed means that the content and pace has been just right.

Fearless Leadership has had an exponential impact on our business. With a combination of this program with the exec team, strategy work driven internally, and a focus on accountability, we hoped we would make a movement into a blue constructive culture and shift one layer of leadership. We have actually delivered on three layers of leadership, positively impacting culture across the whole organisation.

Sarah Cumming
Managing Director – Gippsland Water

Corrinne took our leadership team on a journey of self-discovery that has transformed us from being a ‘group’ of people to a ‘team’ of people. As a newly formed divisional senior management team striving for early excellence, Corrinne helped us navigate and fast track our journey to becoming a ‘fearless’ leadership team. The combination of leadership coaching, facilitation and neuroscience brought about an elevated energy and wisdom to the journey to help us really understand and appreciate ourselves and each other. The style and approach of this leadership development is unique, bringing quick results and equipping the team with the right questions and tools.

Liana Thompson
Director Partnerships & Engagement, City of Whittlesea