Making vision a reality through leadership development
We partnered with a global video game developer and publisher looking to deepen their strategic leadership capability to build the culture and scale the organisation. This programme would help the leadership refine their mission, to turn vision into behaviours and galvanise the workforce in shared purpose to deliver on their strategy.
Focus
This took the form of a leadership intervention with three executive leadership teams to develop a collaborative framework, to refine the organisation’s mission and define implications for different parts of that plan, and to create a collective leadership agenda across the teams to manage the organisational system and culture.
Central to this was the need to translate the high-level strategy into effective team behaviours and culture whilst managing multiple stakeholder relationships.
Action
The programme began with a diagnostic phase opening with 1:1 confidential interviews with team members and stakeholders to build relationships and gain insight into opportunities and challenges. There was also a 360 feedback survey to identify key themes and trends within each team, specifically connected to impact and reputation.
The body of the programme comprised of three virtual facilitated workshops:
- Team Acceleration: establishing ways of working, leadership behaviours, and collaboration frameworks that best represented the company Mission.
- Mission Leadership: reflecting on initial findings to identify how to make the Mission more meaningful, developing team culture for strategic leadership, and responding to any particular team needs as they arose.
- Integration: disseminating the Mission within their own teams and finding conclusions about which teams could do so without further support.
Between workshops we ran 1:1 coaching, helping leaders to digest feedback and observations from the team sessions, to identify organisational and team challenges, and review learnings from their practical experiments.
Some practical experiential learning methods we used included: behavioural drills to experiment with learned skills, peer coaching, preparing for stakeholder and all hands meetings, reflection and application of new leadership practices in leadership experiments.
Impact
To scale sustainably, clarity of vision and a strong culture are crucial. Through this programme we helped the participants become strategic leaders, to refine their strategic vision, understand how to best work towards it in their complex systems and how to inspire the people around them, and create the cultural conditions for growth.
