You are invited to join members of Vistage CE 16 and their Chair Tony McGinn for their next speaker session, led by Jon Lindsay on "Leadership Flow”
Leadership Flow
Talking about the right things, at the right time, with the right people taking ownership
“Flow” is a term used by speakers on resilience and stress management and, from a completely different perspective, the main building block of Lean Thinking and Enterprise Excellence.
This workshop focuses on the leader and their executive team by introducing simple frameworks built on the work of Pat Lencioni, Gino Wickman and John Doerr. One of the main
takeaways is likely to be a much clearer understanding of how to best use OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) as a foundation for accountability.
For this workshop, Jon shares the overall Joined-Up strategy framework and asks attendees to identify their strategy foundations, but the focus is on the Execution. Deployment of strategy needs three complementary areas:
Tools – especially dashboards and visual aids
Processes – including meeting rhythms, agendas and
triggers for actionMindset – the focus on team performance
What to bring:
Your broad strategy documents (just to refer to and share with a colleague)
A reflection your meeting rhythms and agenda process
In this session you will learn:
Where “Big Picture” Strategy helps prioritise and focus the executive team
Strategy implementation is just another process
The need for balance between tools, processes and mindset
The potential of OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and a shift in focus on to Lead Indicators
How a Board (or your Vistage group) can benefit from a focus on leadership flow
The power of conversations
Key Take-Aways
A Joined-Up Strategy Framework
Telling a story using just the objectives
Creating engagement and ownership through conversations about Key Results
Focusing on the vital few
A model for cascading objectives
Your leadership flow challenge worked up as a Vistage Issue
About Jon Lindsay
Jon has been a Brisbane based Vistage Chair since 2009 and runs three vibrant Vistage groups. He was a Vistage UK member for several years before. Jon has unashamedly borrowed ideas and concepts from the myriad of Vistage speakers and hundreds of videos and business books over the last 25 years.
Jon encourages business leaders to think in a Joined-Up® way. He is a natural facilitator of powerful conversations, encouraging “Leadership Flow”, talking about the right things, at
the right time, with the right people taking ownership.
In his Joined-Up® practice, Jon has developed a range of models designed to help leadership teams have the right conversations. This includes a Vision to Action framework for strategy and focus on the drivers of customer value. He has for several years worked with organisations implementing Enterprise excellence and Lean Thinking. Beyond his Vistage chairing Jon works with CEOs, Boards and Executives in developing Joined-up strategies, facilitating workshops, conducting 1on1coaching sessions and implementing Advisory Boards.
His career has migrated from engineering and project management, through manufacturing to business services, insurance and finance. He has an Engineering degree from Cambridge and a MBA from Harvard.
Vistage members are high-integrity business leaders from a diverse range of industries who meet monthly to support each other and address the challenges of leading in these increasingly uncertain times.
The speaker session is the first part of a monthly all-day meeting. During the afternoon, Vistage members continue with their Executive Session. Our speakers are subject experts focused on stimulating active discussion with the group.
Attendance at Vistage meetings is for business leaders only and by invitation and subject to space availability, for this event we welcome Guests who are CEOs or Business Leaders. Please click here and register your interest.