One doctor was especially interested in leading and he was a senior manager in a large medical device sales and distribution company. I had the opportunity to meet with other consultants who were medical doctors. I did some consulting work with a company that invented and manufactured medical devices. Such a team is equipped to meet the most challenging transformational goals.
Even more powerful, then, if inĪddition, each of these talented people is developing leadership competence. A closely related idea here is “Everyone a Functional Expert.” There is enormous power in a team of people with diverse and highly developed functional skills – in inancing, marketing, engineering, manufacturing, and so on. The philosophy of Everyone a Leader is what motivates the individual to develop as a role model leader. They must be prepared to maintain and indeed expand their knowledge and understanding of their ield.
They are the functioning capabilities in which the individual is capable of becoming an “expert.” Engineers, scientists, or technologists, to become effective leaders, must continuously develop their capability as a functional “expert” in their chosen ield. These might be engineering skills, science skills, machine maintenance skills, or sales skills.
Functional expert professional#
Functional ExpertiseĮxpertise, here, refers to the skills people have that are the focus of their professional contribution to society. The message for me was that when people are encouraged to take accountability for leading themselves, they often develop their functional expertise and become more skilled at their work. To that end, they took outside graduate courses at night, or they participated in a variety of self-learning initiatives.
Their experiments succeeded.Īlso, many of these aspiring leader-engineers set the objective of learning more about their engineering specialties. His unit took the time to experiment with ideas and materials that would shorten concrete cure times at ambient temperatures far below freezing. In one case, an enterprising leader-engineer wanted to explore ways to shorten construction times in the Far North during the winter. Instead of taking conventional approaches, they set out to explore the potential for innovation. But the more motivated engineers set personal objectives not just to communicate well with the business leaders – they would seek out those leaders to learn from them they would determine any unrecognized business needs that would make their projects more successful and they would help them extend the potential of their projects. The less motivated, at least at the beginning, set more traditional engineering functional objectives: performing speciic design tasks more eficiently, communicating well with the business sponsor to keep them informed, and so on. But over the years following the change, more and more of them became motivated to improve their functioning capability by setting personal objectives that were more challenging and more developmental. Early on in this transformation, I observed behaviour that encouraged me to believe that our strategy of Everyone a Leader wasĪ number of people in my group set SMBOs that were not much different than those that had been set for them under manager-directed MBOs. We switched, like everyone else, to the SMBO approach. Around the time the SMBO system was introduced, I was leading and managing a small group of engineers that was dedicated to the design and construction of capital projects. More will be said about self-management in part three of this book. This new “SMBO” approach shifted accountability for setting short-term work objectives onto each individual and joint responsibility for review of outcomes onto that individual as well as the person's manager. DuPont Canada had been using this tool for many years now, though, it was decided as part of the evolving design of the developmental leadership organization to redesign it in ways that would allow everyone to selfmanage. They then measure the performance of those individuals to establish their pay. Many conventional organizations use this well-known tool: managers set objectives in co-operation with the individuals in their organizations. One of these initiatives involved “management by objectives” (MBO). Over the years, to accomplish this goal, they made many changes to processes and systems. Our leadership framework goes beyond the development of skills skills, though, are the starting point.Īs I noted in the preface, at a point in time, DuPont Canada's senior leaders decided to markedly improve their company's performance by embarking on a strategy: that everyone would learn to become a competent leader.
The speciic work of leaders is to make changes that improve their own capabilities as well as those of other individuals and entire organizations.
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