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Leadership & Employeeship

Leadership: There's no one size fits all.

The organisations we work with come in a vast range of shapes and sizes with different cultures, strategies, visions and challenges. Developing leadership capability within our clients therefore requires that we carefully build programmes that support their aspirations. You won't find 'off the shelf' leadership packages at Lorensbergs.

Here are some examples of programmes we have designed for our clients recently:

Leadership

  • Leading From A Distance... for leaders who work in global teams that span geographies and cultures. This programme combines both virtual and face to face learning to create a thorough grasp of what's needed to create high performance teams that don't have the luxury of regular face to face contact.
  • Leading Change... for leaders who play a key role in driving change in their organisations. This 3-day programme with follow-up coaching provided participants with the latest thinking is what creates and sustains successful change.
  • Leadership and Motivation... for an entire leadership community of 1500 managers who are leading one of Sweden's largest banks as they transform their presence in the market.
  • Leadership Academy... a long lasting programme of leadership exploration for managers in healthcare resulting in solid application and review of all the insights gathers in the programme.

Employeeship: A philosophy, a methodology and a toolkit

Imagine a workplace where individuals take complete responsibility for their teams performance; where the environment fosters innovation and novelty; where transparent conversations between people are the norm; where people are grounded and where the culture has gone beyond ‘empowerment’. Imagine achieving this so that the organisation has unparalleled commitment, attendance, customer satisfaction and performance.

This is the spirit and more importantly the reality of Employeeship. This simple, yet radical approach to transforming attitudes at work has provided outstanding results in Scandinavia…and now the rest of the world is catching on fast too.

Those who have been engaged in Employeeship see their role as much more than just the carrying out of formal instructions exerted from the leader to the team member. Employeeship is a way of helping people grow in deeply personal way. It is about aligning our innermost values to what we do everyday in relation to our work and to the people we work alongside.

Why Employeeship?

When organisations have successfully embraced a culture of Employeeship, they can achieve:

  •  Enhanced everyday conversations between managers and co-workers
  • All the knowledge and talents of all employees are realised
  • Employees feel a real sense of engagement and responsibility
  • Increases motivation and well-being in the workplace

The main objective for Employeeship is that managers and co-workers act together as partners in the workplace, and that they dispose of the traditional mindset about boss and subordinate.

High fiveBecoming a partner, and not a subordinate, means standing up for and taking responsibility for what we believe is right, and do the things needed… including things that might not be in our formal job descriptions. To do the things that are best for the group, for the company and first and foremost for the customer. It is in its essence about placing ourselves in a position where we act as a co-builder of the organisation we belong to.

Employeeship is not a course or a project. It is a way to relate to your work and everybody that you meet there, whether they be colleagues or customers. This way to be and relate is being discussed within the team, with the team’s manager, oftentimes within the formal structure of a workplace meeting.

Team-work, meetings and collaboration are the key elements of organisational life. However, it’s not unusual for teams to have difficulty achieving its goals because of conflicts, uneven contribution or lack of clarity on the best way ahead.

The Methodology

The core ingredient to developing Employeeship, is planned dialogues between the ‘boss’ and the team where subjects such as loyalty, self awareness, responsibility, work and life goals are discussed using carefully designed dialogues.

Our approach in helping organisations embrace Employeeship makes sure there is full leadership engagement, carefully chosen dialogue subjects which match the organisations situation and the development of internal resources so that the journey is self sustaining.

The Tools

Lorensbergs is fortunate in having a team of psychologists and professional facilitators that have carefully designed dialogues that make it easy for leaders and their teams to in a transparent and profound way communicate more depth in the workplace.