Enabling leaders to navigate change
Case Study
Our leadership development solutions
Davidson’s leadership development solutions armed leaders with the capability to manage
an increasingly complex environment, through
experiential programs.
Challenge
The sector faces complex challenges while delivering a broad range of services with limited resources. Employers must equip their leadership teams with the capability to respond to this complexity and meet the demands of multiple stakeholders.
Our client is a large local government authority. It identified that leadership was key to its ability to perform to meet community needs. Davidson partnered with it to support leaders through transformational leadership initiatives and the implementation of a new leadership competency framework.
The goal was to provide senior managers with the opportunity to undertake scenario-based activities that enabled them to
demonstrate leadership competency and to
receive individual feedback and development.
Solutions
Focus on developing leadership capability
Davidson developed a program with two components:
Experiential development centre
Debrief session
Experiential development centre
Participants underwent a mix of practical and challenging exercises. These targeted core capabilities critical in promoting and preserving the client’s value-based leadership culture.
The program followed best practice principles by:
including both individual and group-based
scenario activities
targeting each activity to assess no more
than three key capabilities
designing highly experiential and
challenging real-world scenarios
Independent observers assessed leadership abilities and effectiveness, identifying areas for development and improvement.
Debrief session
Upon completion of the Leadership Assessment Centre, we invited each participant to meet with a Davidson consulting psychologist to discuss their observations and to transfer learnings.
The session provided clear feedback on their
leadership competency,
identified strengths,
areas for improvement,
and suggested meaningful
improvement actions to pursue.
Outcomes
Alignment with leadership goals
The Executive Leadership Development Centre’s comprehensive integrated design and delivery system produced a number of outcomes aligned with the client’s goals and aspirations
It provided participants with clear, consistent and relevant expectations
regarding leadership roles and responsibilities.
Participants acquired new knowledge and perspectives about their own position from completing the program and debriefing their experiences. They
reported a renewed sense of self-awareness as a leader.
Participants had a better understanding of how their personal and professional
development strategically impacted the council’s growth.
As a result of attending the Executive Leadership Development Centre, many participants developed a behaviour change action plan.
Applying their new knowledge and understanding would ultimately deliver real results and public value.
This outcome gave the client
confidence
that its workforce was led by people
with the skills to
balance competing priorities
manage change
and develop new approaches
to delivering
high quality and valued services.
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