Effective Leadership Why enb?

Briefing Sheet
Leadership Effectiveness What are the challenges facing Financial Institutions? Those who lead and manage others in todays fast moving world face unprecedented demands. Leading in the 21st century means that skills need to be constantly honed and adapted to stay aligned with an ever-changing environment driven by globalisation, increased competition and new technology. New styles of leadership are required no longer is command and control sufficient. Leaders are now expected to set a vision and deliver results but are expected increasingly to achieve their objectives through people skills influence and persuasion. enbs recent research into the key leadership issues being faced by Financial Institutions has highlighted a number of challenges. Those challenges and some of the questions being asked are: Winning the war for talent. How well are we identifying, developing and retaining our leadership talent. Increasingly, our clients in Financial Institutions are placing greater emphasis on growing their own leaders from the early stages of graduate development and then through to high potential programmes that accelerate the development of leaders of the future. Leadership Competences. What knowledge, skills and behaviours should our future leaders be developing? There is continuing confusion about what future leaders need to do as organizations are faced with contradictory theories and fads that emerge and then fade again. Leading organisations are starting from the basics, developing specific leadership competences that blend the best of the old and new and link them to organizational values within the context of the future operating environment. Executive Development. How can we optimize the potential of our brightest people and get them to contribute more effectively in senior teams? One of the biggest challenges faced by Financial Institutions is enabling highly effective functional leaders to bridge the gap to a strategic leadership role and then to perform well in an executive team. Executive coaching is seen as a panacea but too often fails to achieve results through a poor implementation or failure to link personal objectives with business objectives. At executive team level team building is seen as a remedy but there is little appreciation that such teams are different to normal teams and therefore require highly bespoke development interventions. At Board Level, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility have taken a higher priority on the leadership agenda, alongside the need to pay more than lip-service to cross-cultural leadership. The quality of an organisations leadership is now becoming one of the key differentiators in maintaining competitive advantage. Organisations that do not invest in this wisely are in danger of losing the race. What is our value enbs team of consultants has been working in Financial Institutions for over 20 years. They offer a wide range of banking experiences;

proposition to businesses with these issues?

from corporate leadership roles to research, marketing and risk management. enb is uniquely placed to combine this wealth of experience with leading edge skills in organisational and people development to provide innovative solutions to the challenges described above. The Synergy Division of enb has a group of management development specialists that has extensive experience across a wide range of leadership development and behavioural change projects. These have included large programmes involving hundreds of senior managers to small boardroom teams and executive coaching at an individual level. In all cases the emphasis has been on blending our technical and soft skills expertise to achieve measurable results that have been tailored to make a significant impact on the business. In addition to its core consultancy team, enb can draw upon its partnerships with leading research and academic institutions such as the Centre for Leadership Studies at Exeter University and the Center for Creative Leadership in the USA. A 'one size for all' approach to leadership and leadership development in organisations is out-dated. The enb philosophy is that effective leadership begins at the heart of the individual and is underpinned by self-awareness and self-development. Leaders need a deep understanding of their personal capabilities and potential to be able to adapt to different situations. The most effective will have a conscious awareness of the impact they have on other people and on the organisation itself and continually seek opportunities to develop that awareness. However, this focus on individual needs cannot be achieved in a vacuum and leadership development has to be placed firmly within the context of the organisations operating environment. Organisations that are clear about what they want from future leaders and can demonstrate a consistency in leadership development throughout the organization, whilst meeting the needs of the individual, are one step ahead in the race for competitive advantage. This means taking into account future commercial and leadership challenges and ensuring that the culture and characteristics of the organization such as structure and performance management processes are congruent with leadership aspirations. The enb approach fosters a 2-way perspective that embraces the above philosophy From inside to out and From outside to in (see ppt slides)

The enb Approach to Leadership

Our Service Offerings

enb specialises in providing bespoke solutions to meet the needs of our clients. Drawing on our experience of financial institutions and our understanding of the challenges clients face, enb has developed 3 Leadership Capability areas that provide the foundations on which our solutions are built.

Leaders of the future - focus at a programme and individual level in order to support organisations intent on developing leaders to meet the competitive challenges of the future. These include: - Fast Track to leadership programme developing high potentials - Graduate Mentoring and Coaching Programmes - Graduate Development Programmes new skills for first

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Executive Development focus on individuals aiming to become senior executives and teams aspiring to be more effective executive teams and Boards. The overall aim is to take individuals from functional to strategic level leadership roles and executive teams to the performing stage. - 1:1 Executive Coaching and mentoring - Developing high performance executive teams - From functional to strategic leadership in Financial Institutions - Optimising Board effectiveness - values driven leadership

Organisational leadership supporting the infrastructure to develop leaders and senior managers in a way that is aligned with the future vision of the organisation. - Developing future leadership competences - Leadership Audit aligning processes, rewards and leadership development - Succession planning for leadership positions - Leadership across cultures and beyond boundaries Contacts For further details about Leadership Development at enb please contact: Mike Gale or Rob James - 01483 89 00 77