DIRECT LEADERSHIP™ provides clarity, consistency and visibility
 

With DIRECT LEADERSHIP™ the individual as well as the organisation gets a map of the content and tools of the everyday leader.    As the labor force becomes ever better educated, individuals and teams must assume more personal responsibility. However, no matter how accountable your staff turns out to be the need for leaders remains - a new generation of leaders.    DIRECT LEADERSHIP™ has for a few years existed as a traditional classroom workshop. However, it will soon also be launched in an online blended learning version. For a sample of the online workshop, type in the password LEARN and watch the webcast from the introductory session below.    Direct Leadership Online Session 1 from Karin Zastrow on Vimeo.   DIRECT LEADERSHIP™ is a leadership model developed in Scandinavia which challenges the old paradigms and myths of leadership.   Instead the concept offers a model for the vital, visible and tangible leadership of all kinds of employees in all types of organisations.    All leaders must understand and act within a given context, by means of their people skills and on the basis of a set of sound personal values. However, furthermore they must master the CONTEMPORARY LEADERSHIP DELIVERABLES.   DIRECT LEADERSHIP™ teaches leaders to translate their understanding of their current context, people skills and values into present and visible leadership interventions.      Understand context + Leadership Deliverables   = Visible leadership People Skills Values     The concept revolves around 7 roles and four styles, which together form a comprehensive map of the modern leader's job with regard to his/her interaction with staff members.     7 roles 4 styles   Strategy Deployer Organisation Developer Knowledge Manager Team Builder Career Developer Decision Enabler Performance Enabler   A DIRECT LEADERSHIP™ role is one of the 7 areas of responsibility which together add up to a complete description of a leader's job vs his/her staff...                                        Leaders must understand and pay attention to all 7 roles in order to cover the entire ground of their job.     Catcher Initiator Coach Referee       A DIRECT LEADERSHIP™ style is one of 4 different ways in which I as a leader can relate to my employees...      Different styles reflect different intentions. Consequently, leaders cannot limit themselves to applying only one style.            Applying DIRECT LEADERSHIP™ as an organisation's leadership platform throws spotlight on the leadership deliverables and creates visible leadership.       "Endelig                 The DIRECT LEADERSHIP book explains the model's content and its applications. The training leads to mastery - among other things by means of the DIRECT LEADERSHIP™ simulator, a board game which allows the participants to test their newly acquired skills in a series of typical leadership situations.  When implemented the model finds application in all areas of leadership: when staff is geographically close or distant, with individuals or teams, during performance planning and assessment, when the staff are also leaders, etc.      "Leadership is a craft, which may be subdivided into a clear and comprehensible series of leadership deliverables. Good everyday leadership means "catching" the everyday leadership opportunities while over time making certain to embrace all elements of the leadership responsibilities including selecting and mastering the styles and roles, which are seen as fit in each case. Leadership is certainly not easy, and we never seem to have it down once and for all. However the DIRECT LEADERSHIP training made the challenge very concrete and comprehensible and gave me a burning desire to master the craft in the best possible way I can ever do."   Hans Peter Messerschmidt, Development Manager at Magistrenes A-Kasse (Denmark)     "Finally a leadership training without clichés and old truths - which actually no longer work in actual practise...DIRECT LEADERSHIP made the demands and my tools as a manger very tangible. Through this education, the game and the workbook, I received the tools to start training a genuine leadership.   Annica Elveroth, Länsförsäkringen, Sweden