TRANSFORMING LEADERSHIP Effectiveness TO ACCOMPLISH EXTRAORDINARY BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
What the Top 10% Performing CEOs Know that You Don't
Our database shows that the Leadership Effectiveness Index explains 38% of the overall business performance.
This is a bigger leverage than most companies’ gross profit margin, but very few companies have the Leadership Effectiveness Index on their KPI dashboard.
The same database reveals that the top 10% performing businesses have an average Leadership Effectiveness of 80 percentile points, while the bottom 10% have an average of 30 percentile points.
Leadership Effectiveness Index above 50% is considered a competitive advantage and below 50% a competitive disadvantage.
We are a next-generation performance transformation firm that helps leadership teams of middle market companies boost their business performance by increasing their Leadership Effectiveness Index to make a global impact.
We lead the shift from costly, ineffective leadership development projects to agile transformations with affordable monthly subscriptions.
Our work helps organizations make the difficult leap from one growth phase to the next by evolving the organizational capacity and capability to create outcomes that matter most.
We Exist to Evolve Leadership Effectiveness so that Together, We Can Create a Ripple Effect of Unity in the World
We Help Solving These Problems:
- Lack of Alignment
- Business Underperformance
- Organizational Silos
Volatility
Uncertainty
Complexity
Ambiguity
WE ARE DIFFERENT
LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS IMPACTS BUSINESS RESULTS
together, We make
the invisible…visible,
the uncomfortable…comfortable,
and the ordinary…extraordinary.
CREATING A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE NO ONE CAN COPY
- Design structures that determine performance
- Make an impact on business results and performance
- Develop a leadership brand and cross-organization identity
- Boost individual and collective effectiveness simultaneously
- Build momentum in critical mass: flywheel effect
- Interlock components that reinforce each other
~Nido Qubein
SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
- Concrete experience – Connect directly with the real challenges and objectives of the leaders at every turn, and in every conversation.
- Reflective Observation – Seek to make meaning out of the leadership experiences.
- Abstract Conceptualization - Gel a “rule of thumb” about what to do in certain types of leadership situations.
- Active Experimentation - Practice a series of behavioral experiments.
Effective leaders outperform ineffective leaders every time
~ Bill Adams
An Integrated Framework for Transformative Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
The Leadership Effectiveness transformation system has 7 interlocking and reinforcing components that, taken together, accomplish more than any single-component solution could.
The Leadership Circle Profile™ is a breakthrough 360-degree profile that reveals the relationship between patterns of action and internal assumptions that drive behavior.
Ultimately, The Leadership Circle Profile™ goes to the source of behavior to get greater leverage on change in a way that brings the key issues to the surface instantly. It puts leaders in touch with what is working, what is not, and why!
By deploying the Leadership Circle Profile, you will receive a faster return on the investment you are making in your leaders because the instrument drives a more focused development plan and faster results. Our many clients will attest to this.
The Leadership Circle Profile™ :
Collective Leadership Assessment™ (Annually)
- Establishes a compelling rationale for change.
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Has a greater ability to engage effectively the stakeholders.
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Enables to create an inspired culture in their part of the organization and to positively enhance the culture of the overall organization
Kickoff Offsite Workshop (Annually)
- Debriefing the Collective Leadership Assessment
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Clarifying the impact of the Collective Effectiveness on business performance
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Discussing the gaps between current reality and desired culture
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Setting gap priorities
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Committing to next steps with specific links to the business outcomes
Collective Leadership Development Plan (Ongoing)
The Leadership Development Plan of the executive team sets the agenda for team coaching. It relies on the results of the Collective Leadership Assessment and the agreements achieved during the full-day workshop.
The Leadership Development Plan is decided in the context of the strategic challenges the company faces. Based on the strategic priorities, the team decides on the “One Big Thing”™ that will make the most impact on business results.
The One Big Thing is supported by a single ‘start behavior’ and a single ‘stop behavior’ that the team commits to change. We follow up on the progress during team coaching sessions and the coach holds the team accountable for the changes.
Individual Leadership Development Plan (Ongoing)
Like the team’s leadership development plan, the individuals identify the “One Big Shift” that will create the outcomes that matter the most for the individual, team, and the organization. The coach helps the leaders to articulate their purpose and vision so that they will be in alignment with their One Big Shift and the organization vision.
The leaders decide on their individual single ‘start behavior’ and single ‘stop behavior’ that will have the most impact on their leadership effectiveness and business performance.
Shift Surveys (Quarterly)
Measurement of performance against goals is vital to the functioning of any system. Therefore, the individual Leadership Development Plans are programmed into our software and creates a Shift Survey.
This near-real-time survey reinforces the leaders’ commitments to take action on their One Big Shift by inviting an Accountability Circle of colleagues to give that leader direct feedback on how their behavior-change experiments are working.
Every quarter or once the One-Big-Shift has been accomplished, a new Leadership Development Plan and new Pulse Survey are created.
Team Coaching (Monthly)
The monthly team coaching series is an ongoing development process that blends the best of on-the-job application, peer coaching, and targeted leadership content that deepens leaders’ understanding of effective senior leadership.
The rhythm of monthly regular 2-hour online/4-hour offline sessions build powerful momentum and provides a high-trust, high-accountability environment for leaders to lean on as they work at increasing their effectiveness.
In this kind of setting, leaders can’t fake development progress or lose focus without their peers holding them accountable. This structured approach to peer-based accountability has been a missing ingredient in most leadership development processes, and the monthly team coaching cracks the code.
The coach also shadows and observes the executive team in high-stake situations such as executive staff meetings and board meetings so that the team receives unbiased feedback about their performance.
The team coaching series offers a monthly new development theme based on the collective leadership development needs, the results of the assessments, offsite, and ongoing team coaching needs.
One-on-One Coaching (Ongoing)
Our process moves fast and helps clients get massive traction on their most important work through a 3-phase 3-month cycles. In each 3-month cycle we move the needle of ONE-BIG-SHIFT at a time.
~Bob Anderson
What the Top 10% Performing CEOs Know that You Don't
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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Dave Osh is a high-growth catalyst and the founder of Varlinx, a next-generation performance transformation firm that helps leadership teams of middle market companies boost their business performance by increasing their Leadership Effectiveness Index.
Dave leads the shift from costly, ineffective leadership development projects to agile transformations on affordable monthly subscriptions. His work helps organizations make the difficult leap from one growth phase to the next one. He builds organizational capacity and capability to create outcomes that matter most.
Dave has vast experience in coaching, mentoring, consulting, and facilitating strategic offsites. He is a published author of leadership books and the producer of the CEOpeek show. He laid his leadership foundation on the battlefield as a fighter pilot and air force commander, taking his cockpit experience from the briefing room to the boardroom.
His mission is to evolves leadership effectiveness so that, together, we can create a ripple effect of unity in the world. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Ainsley. In his free time, he skis, hikes, plays electric guitar, windsurfs, and ‘parents’ three adult children (and a cat).