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WHY IS REMOTE WORK HARD TO LEAD?
The Covid-19 pandemic has incentivized organizations everywhere to embrace the long-awaited future of remote work.
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But as employees are logging on to video meetings and testing new collaboration platforms, the traditional leadership models that seek to understand organizations as chains of command, corner offices and formal reporting relationships have taken a hit.
This has highlighted a long-standing debate about the two ways to lead an organization.
THE TWO LEADERSHIP MODELS
TRADITIONAL LEADERSHIP MODELS
The traditional approach to leadership taught at most business schools means you have to understand the organization as a chain of command and a formal who-reports-to-who hierarchy.
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As Covid-19 struck and the world turned to remote work, traditional leadership stayed primarily concerned with optimizing the way information should flow along formally defined chains of command. Hence, they focused on daily stand-up meetings between superiors and subordinates, checking the task list and staying safely within the boundaries of more authoritarian, individualistic, top-down management.
THE NETWORK LEADERSHIP MODEL
The academic discipline of Network Leadership, on the other hand, lifts the veil of hierarchy to see who people actually talk to in the organization, who sits on important information and who is isolated or under-utilized.
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With the ongoing Remote Work Revolution, some leaders have rather seen the need to inspire a bottom-up approach to decision-making, distributing power and making more information broadly available through cross-department communication on clouds, collaboration tools and chat boxes. Network Leadership is their tool.
THE BENEFITS OF NETWORK LEADERSHIP IN THE REMOTE ERA
More than ever, communication, collaboration, information sharing and decision making are key business drivers.
And especially being able to do those things in stressful and uncertain times.
If you could take this moment to learn how your organization really works across formal and informal relationships and pick the tools you need to make it perform better, would you?
How well would you say the people in your organization authentically communicate? How effectively do they collaborate and share information? How effectively do they make decisions? And how well do they do these things if faced with adversity or stress?
If you could move your organization up just a few notches on these values, what impact would that have on your business?
That is what the Network Leadership model helps you do.
Network Leadership helps you do a body scan of your business and gives you a crystal clear view on how you are stacking up on these values. It lets you use that knowledge to drill down and see what each and every person in the network is contributing. And then it provides really simple tools and measures to let you push those values up.
How important would that be to you?
JOIN21 has the perfect technology for that, and it is perfectly customized to your needs. It gives you a map. The map shows your silos, bottlenecks and outliers. Your experts and go-to people. It may surprise you.
And it certainly looks nothing like your chain of command.
The results can be fast or slow, but they always show:
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[NetworkImgCap image_id="955" image_caption="PRODUCTIVITY" image_description="select the right tools and the right roles for just the right people"]
[NetworkImgCap image_id="952" image_caption="CULTURE" image_description="discover how to build a motivating, engaging and open culture"]
[NetworkImgCap image_id="953" image_caption="DIVERSITY" image_description="make knowledge flow across gender, age, ethnicity and other demographics"]
[NetworkImgCap image_id="956" image_caption="SATISFACTION" image_description="retain key staff and prevent work frustrations"]
[NetworkImgCap image_id="951" image_caption="ADAPTABILITY" image_description="understand how to adapt to mergers and acquisitions, onboarding and other shifts"]
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JOIN21 teaches you Network Leadership in 3 main steps:
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