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Leading and Building Agile Organisations

NCVO Conference18 April 2016

• The pace of change. Disruption, challenge and uncertainty.

• Austerity and growing demand for services• Leaders who are collaborative and adaptive will

achieve more.• To build collective action and impact. To achieve more

for our clients. • To obtain the 23% performance uplift from investing

in leadership (CMI).

Why Voluntary Organisations Need to be More Agile

The Dancefloor or the Balcony?

• Less time on the dancefloor. More time on the balcony.• Less research, more experiments. Less strategy, more tactics.• Less stability. More disruption. Change management becomes

ongoing.• Less authority. More ideas, feedback and challenge.

All leadership must be appropriate for the situation.

4 Leadership Lessons I am Trying to Learn

Agile Leaders Walk on a Razor’s Edge

Agile Leaders are able to Walk on the Razor’s Edge (Ronald Heifitz)

Leaders Agile LeadersGive Direction Define problems and

solutionFrame questions and issues

Protection Shield the organisation from external pressures

Let organisation feel external pressure within a range it can stand

Management of people

Clearly define roles and responsibilities

Disorient current roles; create fluid roles

Controling Conflict

Restore order Allow conflict to emerge

Shaping Norms

Maintain norms Encourage disrupters

For the Curious: the Guru of Adaptive Leadership

Agile Leaders Create Agile Organisations

In challenging times, know your values. Your TRUE NORTH.