THE StageSHIFT 3-STEP SYSTEM TO SYNERGIST

We liberate the latent potential of Senior Executive Leaders by guiding them on their evolutionary journeys to become Visionary Inspiring Purposeful - VIP - Leaders with a Transforming Synergist Mindset. They develop the capacity to reinvent the business, build a Team-based Empowering Accountable Learning culture to realize scalable Sustainable, Healthy, Equitable outcomes, and generate a Brighter Flourishing Future for all.

Liberate Vertical Growth

Vertical growth enables executive leaders become Visionary Inspiring Purposeful Leaders with the presence and influence to cut through complexity, uplift the organizational culture, and lead transformation with confidence. Simultaneously managers are empowered to step up to take more accountability for 1-3-year operational business results.

Vertical development involves increasing our conscious awareness to match today's systemic complexity. Instead of doing our best to navigate and grapple with life's challenges, we learn to lean into and understand our emotions for what they teach us about ourselves. Gradually we make the shift from outside-in to inside-out leadership.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust

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Quantitative Findings

To discover if Executive Coaching could impact the vertical development of executive clients, I decided to put myself to the test. Was my Coaching effective?

12 Executives purposively selected for their >80% Achievist profile (orange) participated in the Research Case Study. At the start their average aggregate vertical profile was 92% conventional - up to and including Achievist. Three years later, 92% of their profile as post-conventional at Catalyst and Synergist.

80% of the Executives made the StageSHIFT from Achievist to Catalyst in a single year and 20% made a double StageSHIFT from Achievist to Synergist in the one year.

Qualitative Findings

Following a thematic cross-case analysis of >150 coaching hours documented in >100,000 words, the study identified 8 factors, 5 active vertical ingredients (see Transformative Coaching) and 3 key drivers:

Elevate the System with Systemic Strategic Scaffolding to SHAPE THE FUTURE and Ignite Strategic Alignment.
Cultivate the Self with Vertical Holistic Development to EVOLVE TALENT and Invite Networked Leadership
Generate the Shift with Confident Collaborative Influence to TRANSFORM OUR WORLD and Inspire Flourishing Ecosystems.

By focusing on the System, Self and Shift in this sequence, we first create the space for growth, enable this growth, and then manifest this growth in the form of embodied Synergist Leadership held by less than 10% of Executives.

Elevate the System to SHAPE THE FUTURE

We elevate the system to create an aspirational strategic context - STRATEGY, a streamlined organizational STRUCTURE, and an orchestrated approach to liberating meetings - SYNCHRONY, to create and sustain Purposeful Alignment and Business Cohesion.

Simultaneously the elevated systemic context creates the expansive space for vertical leadership growth, the development of a team-based, accountable, empowered, learning (teal) culture, and organic business expansion.

Cultivate the Self to EVOLVE TALENT

We cultivate the self to create an inner leadership presence - SINCERITY, resolve reactive patterns found in SHADOW, and reframe history to reshape identity and reset destiny - STORY, to create and sustain Leadership Growth and Team Coherence.

Simultaneously the cultivated self develops the confidence to lead their lives based on their personal values and purpose, build strong collaborative teamwork, and influence their relationships with all stakeholders.

Generate the Shift to a FLOURISHING FUTURE

We generate the shift by holding psychologically safe space with STANDARDS, articulating our SIGNATORY voice and collaborating proactively with all stakeholders to generate SYNERGY, and lead the co-creation of Flourishing Ecosystems.

Simultaneously the regional place-based focus supports the renewal of a local community identity where people feel supported and enabled to lead fulfilling connected lives while enjoying a sense of shared security and wellbeing.

The 3-Step System to Synergist

Developing the Synergist Leadership capacity to become a more Visionary Inspiring Purposeful Leader involves transforming the organization's systemic context, transforming the inner self, and then transforming the wider business ecosystem, industry or region.

Because the Synergist mindset is a mature Collective perspective, the integration of the system within the identity of the self is critical. Thus, the transformation of the system facilitates the development of the Synergist mindset and embodied leadership capacity.

To discover the extent to which your organization empowers leaders, engages people, and enables vertical growth across role levels, you can undertake the StageSHIFT IMPACT Assessment inquiring into your Identity, Management, People, Accountability, Culture, and Transformation dimensions.

Find out more about StageSHIFT's IMPACT Assessment

Simultaneous Systemic and Holistic Leadership Development

To embody a mature 4th Perspective Mindset at Synergist, we need to operate on the System and not just navigate within it. The 4th Perspective switches to the Collective. As we grow through this Perspective, we identify with the systemic whole.

Through our leadership presence, our words and actions, decisions and initiatives, we're able to generate a team-based empowered accountable learning culture inclusive of Yellow, Orange, Green and Teal vertical evolutions at related role levels.

This generates a scalable sustainable business creating a brighter flourishing future for all.

StageSHIFTs to Master Role Complexity

DEEP SYSTEMIC SPEED

Leadership Development to a mature Synergist Mindset 3 times faster than usual in just 1-2 years instead of 5-6.

SWIFT OUTCOMES

Double Leadership Effectiveness, People Engagement, and Creative Productivity in short time frames.

BUSINESS GROWTH

Uplift Performance, win Industry Awards, accolades for Presentations, and realize rapid Career Advances.

VERTICAL SYSTEMIC HOLISTIC LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

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