The Integrity Profiling System and Leadership Development

Leadership

Leadership - Great leaders are BUILT not BORN.

This is a leadership program where you will discover the leader that is within you.  Come on an exciting journey of discovery that will change your life and your business.

There are three things we focus on throughout your journey.

When you and your team get them right, profits soar, you feel great and your whole life occurs like a wonderful fun filled game.

Three Ingredients For Success in Life and Business

A Clear Vision

All organisations whose people have a clear vision of where they are going are well on their way to success. A vision is necessary to bind the organisation and give people hope. The work that Integrity and Values.com does enables people to have the powerful conversations required to implement the vision. This is achieved when the executive team is functioning in a healthy and productive manner. Once the vision and goal is set, our role is to keep the team honest and focused.

The Ability to Fight Clean

One of the most common problems in executive management is the lack of skills in this area. Some people see fighting as dirty, dangerous and unnecessary. “The ability to fight clean” means the ability to table an issue with a co-worker at the first available opportunity and resolve it productively. There are only two outcomes that come from conflict. They are successful resolution or management of the conflict. Where there is management of conflict an organisation will operate at less than its potential.
A Integrity and Values Leadership Development program gives individuals clear rules and the skills to resolve conflict in a powerful and direct manner.  After a clean fight both parties can walk away without any residual resentment to fuel the next fight and with their dignity in place.

“Fun” - an essential for success

There are six requirements critical for effective work. These are:

• the degree of challenge
• elbow room
• opportunity for learning
• mutual support and respect
• meaningful of the work
• availability of a desirable future

When these are present people experience work as a form of play. Those who do not enjoy a high quality of work life transform their dissatisfaction with their work into the production of poor quality products or services.
When people’s creativity is engaged profitability soars because happy, healthy people work more effectively.

WHO IS ON THE EXECUTIVE TEAM?

At the start of a program we run our powerful integrity and values profile on the team. This gives you some really valuable bench marking data to begin your team’s journey.
Where the whole team has been assessed it is possible to make statements about the nature of the conversations that are being avoided and the consequent cost to the business. The power of a team Integrity Profile allows the leaders to be honest about their short comings within a supportive framework and to take appropriate actions to correct.

Using the Integrity Profiling System when assessing team dynamics:

Leadership teams need to be able to hold each other Accountable and take Responsibility for the results they produce as a whole.

This 5-person team is characterised by one person to whom the truth is very important, by a second who is ambivalent and by three others where the truth is an optional extra depending on what that truth is, who needs / wants to know and how urgent or important the matter is.

There is one person who is very Responsible and Accountable.  This same person is also the one for whom Truth is extremely important. This person is most likely very unhappy / frustrated working with people who cannot hold themselves responsible.  One member of this group can hold others accountable but will not be held responsible if things don’t go right.  That is to say they can point the finger at the ones who didn’t perform but not be able to see their part in the mess up.

Three members of this team are highly Loyal and will support the company by doing what needs to be done. The other two will look after their own best interests, primarily by doing what it suits them.

Where the Self Reflection score is low people cannot see the impact of their other low scores on the people around them.
 
There is only one person on this team who has the capacity to make their Values and Attitudes evident and present in their relationship with others and with themselves.  For the others on this team there is a wide gap between who they say are and what people see. These individuals are continually frustrated with and by each other.

Unless this team is willing to do some hard yards in developing themselves as leaders the organisation will not be able to function at its best or make the profits that they are looking for.

WHAT WE DO

Integrity and Values.com is an executive leadership and management development organisation dedicated to boosting profits and people through the development of business management teams.

Integrity and Values.com has a powerful and professional team of consultants with years of practical     hands-on experience in business. Our prime objective is to improve a team's ability to manage themselves and the people who report to them through communicating honestly and effectively about the task and vision of the organisation.  This objective is achieved through improving the awareness and performance of the individuals who make up the team. The ability to do a task and the ability to manage people require completely different skills.

We differentiate between these skills by calling them Hard Skills and Soft Skills. Most people in management positions have very good technical or hard skills. Soft skills are the communication and leadership skills required to get others to do the task and are the hardest skill to learn.

Improved Bottom Line Effective utilization of soft skills has a direct relationship to the bottom line performance of the organisation. Effective leadership requires both the ability to sell others on ideas, concepts or actions and the ability to create an environment where these are implemented.

Effective Feedback CEO’S and MD’S of Australia are very keen for feedback on their performance and the performance of their teams.  Most people who report to them are afraid to tell all of the truth all of the time. We deliver that feedback and will teach your team to do it effectively.

Best Corporate Executives As coaches we work with executives to develop cultures that are dynamic, prosperous and exciting places to work.  Most trainers and executives will not challenge the person who signs their pay cheque.   We do!  We also support, encourage and create a safe environment for people to make mistakes, learn and grow through the change process.