| Training content on Leadership as part of your | | | | Alignment between Customers, People, Systems |
| Executive Management Training is essential to align | | | | and Processes, and core direction |
| the different components of a company as | | | | How do company employees move as a |
| markets and companies evolve. Alignment | | | | coherent unit? Good leaders ensure that |
| essentially means that the different components | | | | companies move in alignment. |
| of a corporation are all "in synch", pulling in the | | | | This means alignment between all of the |
| same direction. | | | | company's elements: customers (what do they |
| Companies, in their simplest form, consist of 4 | | | | want and need?), the company's people (where |
| essential components: | | | | are they going? what are they doing? what |
| | | | motivates them?), the company's systems and |
| 1. Customers | | | | processes (how are things being done? what |
| 2. People | | | | support structures are there? how is this |
| 3. Systems and processes | | | | captured?) and the company's core direction |
| 4. Core direction (or core strategy) | | | | (what are the company's core values, vision, |
| People | | | | mission, goals?) |
| There are two types of people: leaders and | | | | A company with good leadership is aligned. Its |
| followers. Who is a leader and who is a follower | | | | core direction ensures that the company |
| has very little to do with title or with organizational | | | | continues to be where the customers want it and |
| charts. Managers are not always leaders and | | | | needs it. Leaders in the company ensure that |
| leaders are not always managers. But leaders | | | | people keep moving and evolving along that core |
| certainly are essential to moving the company | | | | direction. And good leaders aren't afraid to change |
| forward. | | | | systems and processes if they are out of |
| Customers and markets are dynamic. They | | | | alignment, impeding progress along the core |
| change. Companies must be dynamic and change. | | | | direction. |
| And as companies change, it is essential that they | | | | Executive management leadership training is |
| move as one unit. It would be counterproductive | | | | essential to grow leaders in a company that align |
| to have the company move in a hundred | | | | the different elements and keep moving the |
| different directions, or worse, in as many | | | | company forward, aligning with where its |
| directions as the company has employees... | | | | customers are and what its markets want. No |
| Leaders ensure that their followers move along as | | | | economy can derail a company that is aligned -- |
| an organic unit, rather than as a number of | | | | no economy can derail a company that has solid, |
| isolated individuals. | | | | aligned leadership. |