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A Comprehensive Leadership Development Journey

 

Situation/Problem

With the need to develop a leadership program to pursue unique leadership behaviours in different areas, a well-known Saudi Authority decided to present a comprehensive leadership development journey for a final list of talented directors for executive positions to be equipped with the required competencies and behaviours.

The client’s urgent request emerged for designing and developing a pioneering leadership journey tailored to nurture distinctive leadership behaviours across diverse areas. This initiative aimed to orchestrate an all-encompassing leadership odyssey for a select cohort of future leaders earmarked for executive roles, instilling them with the essential competencies and behaviours required for success, desired by the organisation. This comprehensive development journey was finely designed to cover and achieve a variety of objectives, including the attainment of competitive advantage in the corporate landscape, fostering self-awareness, and stimulating personal growth, driving performance improvement, and facilitating skills enhancement. Ultimately, this transformative effort aimed to shape individuals into visionary leaders, well-prepared to handle the challenges of leadership effectively and with a significant impact.

 

Client Needs

Seeking to gain a competitive advantage and empower directors with the needed leadership qualities for exceptional organisational leadership, our client requested that the directors participate in a comprehensive leadership development journey. This initiative was designed to enhance the participants’ leadership competencies tailored to the needs of the organisation, develop and embed the desired set of behaviours, and utilize practical application of acquired knowledge through hands-on projects. The client’s objective was to establish a leadership development journey to prepare directors for a multitude of challenges and elevate organisational performance, aligning with strategic goals, and ultimately building a strong competitive position within the industry landscape.

The client’s HR team sought support to prepare directors based on a variety of learning tools to comprehend their leadership experience and to refine their capabilities to accommodate their future executive role with the following expectations:

  • A series of comprehensive leadership development programs to develop the required leadership competencies.
  • Hands-on projects to apply and refine the acquired knowledge.
  • One-to-one coaching sessions to improve directors’ perceptions towards options and goals and to provide them with the balance they need to lead with a more qualified leadership style so that they can enhance the organisation’s performance to rise to the challenges and meet the strategic goals.

 

 

TTM Solution

TTM Associates proposed a comprehensive Leadership Development Project to develop the directors’ leadership behaviours by considering the client’s needs and expectations to utilise the needed skills aligned with the executive role competencies, to develop proficient leaders.

The TTM team designed and developed a leadership developmental journey based on the expected Leadership Competencies Level of Proficiency, bridging onto the client’s Competencies context: whereby the solutions enhanced the leaders’ desired competencies in a manner aligned with the exceptional expectations set for them. This was reflected in the following milestones:

 

 

8 Leadership Development programs as follows:

  1. The Blue Ocean – Strategic Leadership – Blue Ocean Way:

Directors were equipped with the skills and the desired behaviours to effectively communicate the strategic direction, vision, and objectives at all organisational levels, elevate commitment levels among team members and seek and cultivate strategic partnerships that lead the organisation toward achieving the organization’s strategic goals.

 

  1. Leading Business – Building Business Acumen

Directors gained a deep understanding of organisational dynamics and interrelationships, enabling them to craft and implement effective business strategies. In addition to fostering a cross-functional mindset that maximizes results and nurtures an entrepreneurial orientation, empowering directors to take ownership of business units.

 

This was a simulation-based program using the CapSim simulation where directors had the opportunity to:

  • Analyse: They began by analysing the industry, the markets, and their competition.
  • Formulate: They used the information gathered to formulate a business strategy to grow their business.
  • Execute: They executed key decisions across the four major functions: R&D, Marketing, Production, and Finance.

 

  1. The Passionate Leader:

Directors developed the skills to engage, empower, and coach their teams and other members to enhance both self and team performance. They also gain a profound understanding of the leader’s role in inspiring and motivating individuals to excel.

 

  1. The Innovative Leader:

Directors mastered the framework for innovation in challenging times and explore diverse approaches to fostering creativity and adopting versatile leadership styles that cultivate an environment conducive to innovation.

 

  1. Transformational Leadership- Leading Change Though Complexity

Directors gained a comprehensive grasp of fundamental concepts related to organisational change and effective management. They delved into the psychology of change and its impact on others’ thinking preferences. In addition, they dived into identifying opportunities, mitigating potential threats, and effectively mobilising and communicating change in transformational environments.

This was a simulation-based program using the Change Management simulation where participants had the opportunity to:

  • Understand the four stages of change management (change awareness, interest, trial, adoption)
  • Experiment with different strategies for effective change management
  • Explore power, influence, and resistance to change within an organisational setting.

 

  1. The Autonomous Leader:

Directors acquired the skills and the behaviours needed to cultivate a proactive leadership culture and environment. This program refined directors’ executive presence, gravitas, and personal credibility while harnessing personal power and influence.

 

  1. The Collaborative Leader:

Directors mastered identifying the traits of high-performing teams. They grasped the various stages of team development and delved into the dynamics of team communication and acquired the behaviours of cohesively and effectively fostering their teams.

 This was a simulation-based program using the Climbing Mount Everest simulation where participants were exposed to:

  • Leadership, team building, & strategy forming​​
  • Communication & organisational behavior​​
  • Group dynamics & group decision-making

 

  1. Customer Intimacy:

Directors gained insight into the unique challenges of serving beneficiaries and how these challenges impact the cultivation of positive relationships. They learn to grasp diverse beneficiary behaviours and meet specific needs, fostering and managing positive relationships.

 

  • Comprehensive Webinars:

To make the best out of each development session, TTM designed an associated virtual webinar to be conducted after each program to enrich and nurture the concepts and behaviours acquired previously during the development programs.

  

  • One-to-one Executive Coaching Sessions:

Five one-to-one executive coaching sessions were implemented along the journey to gauge the participants’ improvement closely, provide personalised feedback and guidance tailored to their needs and challenges, enhance their awareness about their strengths and weakness points and set goals to move accordingly to continue growing and developing.

 

  • Action Learning Projects (ALPs) associated with 3 group coaching:

During these ALPs, the participants were responsible for resolving and managing an internal challenge their organisation was facing by managing that hands-on and generating an attainable solution utilizing and benefiting from the acquired behaviours and insights throughout the journey to be implemented internally after being reviewed by the responsible departments.

 

  • LMS Access:

Participants had access to TTM’s Learning Management System which included different quizzes, reading material, and a variety of videos and articles all related to every development program.

 

 

OUTCOME:

Over the period of one year, Directors were enrolled in the comprehensive leadership development journey that tackled different aspects and competencies and was implemented by 5 highly experienced consultants from a range of different nationalities. As a result, the following have been achieved:

  • 163 training hours throughout the 8 leadership development programs
  • 32 hours of different leadership simulations
  • 144 comprehensive webinar hours
  • 45 one-to-one coaching hours
  • 54 group coaching hours

In conclusion, the comprehensive leadership journey for Directors was tailored to prepare them for executive roles by equipping them with essential leadership skills, refining existing behaviours, equipping them with new desired sets of behaviours and leadership styles, and fostering greater confidence and balance in both their professional and personal lives.

At the same time, the journey provided participants with the tools needed to build and manage cohesive teams effectively. Finally, the initiative instilled a commitment to excellence in business, with a focus on enhancing productivity within a harmonious organisation that operates in a united and engaged manner, aligned with the authority strategic goals and with the 2030 Vision.

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Raya Khayat

Co-founder, Impact Lebanon

Raya is a tech professional working in business development & strategy at Apple, based out of London. She previously held two roles at Facebook; the first in Austin, Texas where she managed $80M/year of advertising sales for small and medium businesses; the second as a partner manager for media creators and sports partners in London.

In parallel to her work, Raya is a co-founder and one of partnerships lead of Impact Lebanon, a non-profit organisation that spearheads various initiatives, from socio-economical to welfare to environmental, in order to drive real impact in Lebanon. Raya is passionate about all things tech, innovation, & women empowerment, and is a strong believer of ‘leaning into the question mark’ – stretching boundaries and jumping into the unknown.

Ope Taiwo

Channel Manager, Qlearsite

Ope Taiwo began her career at Gartner, witnessing first-hand the potential for Qlearsite to impact the working lives of clients. Following Qlearsite’s receipt of the Gartner Cool Vendor award for their impressive work in the Employee Engagement space. Ope joined the team with a determination to raise awareness for Qlearsite, who developed an analytics platform that analyses free-text comments in addition to quantitative feedback.

As Channel Manager, Ope is responsible for building and managing a strategic partner network that will take Qlearsite’s offering to market. Thus, enabling leaders to look beyond the quantitative metrics traditionally associated with Engagement measurements, and listen to the experiences, feelings, and sense of Inclusivity in the workplace.

Mohammad Subuh

Digital Transformation Consultant, TTM Associates

Mohammad Subuh is a Digital Transformation and IT Governance (GRC) Specialist with over 12 years of experience. He has worked in the consulting field for four years with one of the big four consulting firms in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Prior to that he worked as an IT Strategy and Governance Specialist for 8 years at The Housing Bank, Jordan.

During his years of experience, Mohammad contributed in a number of strategic projects derived from the Vision 2030 of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he participated in the establishment of the Vision Realisation Offices (VROs) in many government entities within Saudi. There he played different roles within Strategic Alignment, Project Management, Performance Management and Quality Management.

He also participated in a number of projects related to e-Government Transformation and IT consulting. He led the IT Governance Stream to implement the IT Governance Framework as part of the e-Government Transformation project as well as in leading the process of preparing and delivering the necessary materials for an eGovernment Transformation Audit. Additionally, he led an IT Policies and Processes Standardization project according to best practices of ITIL, COBIT and CMMI and IT Benchmarking.

Moreover, Mohammad participated in several projects related to automation and performance enhancement, where he participated in a Change Management Project to implement an ITIL based automated Service Management System. He was also responsible for the IT Vendors Management and IT Financial Management, as well as managing the IT policies and procedures governance.

His experience is focused on the Public Sector, Banking & Finance, Retail, Transportation and Logistics sectors.

He has an MSc. Digital innovation (UK), MBA (UK), BSc. IT (Jordan), and he is also certified in Certified Business Analysis Practice (CBAP).

 

Bonnie Hagemann

CEO,EDA,Inc.(USA)

Bonnie Hagemann is the CEO of EDA, Inc., a top-of-the-house consulting firm known around the world for its C-Suite capabilities in executive development and research.  Shifting to advancing the state of the industry rather than one company at a time, EDA is currently taking its’ 37-year history as a thought leader in the space and using it to create a powerful HR Tech platform called SurveySaurus, designed to make culture visible to the leaders, the board and the investors.  Bonnie, personally, is a published and well-known leadership strategist who advises public and large company CEOs and is often called upon as a subject matter expert for the media including Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, CNN,  US News and World Report and many more.

Ellen Robinson

President,TEAM Performance Inc.

Ellen Robinson, President of TEAM Performance, works with forward-thinking leaders who want to bring their best selves to work and life. Her focus is on creating workplace programs that get results by improving productivity, trust, teamwork, communication effectiveness, and productive conflict. For the last 33 years she has worked with small business owners, Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations, consultants, governmental agencies, and utility companies. Ellen holds a marketing degree from The University of Texas at Austin. She has numerous certifications around trust-building, Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, culture change and leadership development.

As a Certified Barrett Consultant and Trainer, Ellen has certified over 450 individuals globally since 2005 and is the longest-tenured consultant in the virtual platform.

Thomas Orths

Consultant,TTM Associates

Thomas Orths is an expert in Leadership Effectiveness, Holistic Change and Emotional Intelligence. As a high-performance coach, trainer and speaker, he enables individuals, teams and organizations to grow. His ability to initiate Mind-set Change is in demand to create High Performing Teams in the competitive business arena.

With the experience of Thomas, growth becomes possible by using successful strategies that enable you to increase sales, to optimize productivity, improve customer service and work more efficiently. His core competencies include leadership & management effectiveness, holistic change, emotional intelligence & mind-set change and high performing individuals & teams.

Thomas has previous industry experience in Aerospace, Chemicals, Communications, Creative Industries, Electronics, Financial Services, Food and Drink, IT, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology and Finance.

His qualifications include accreditation for DISC behaviour related assessment tools focusing on leadership & team development and assessment instruments of emotional intelligence on the individual, team and organizational level through JCA, Cheltenham UK.(John Cooper &Associates)

Thomas has worked with many international clients. Some of these are Bayer, British Airways, Gen Re Reinsurance, Goodyear Dunlop Europe, Hilton Hotels, Hitachi, Holiday Inn Hotels, Janssen Cilag, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald’s. He has also worked with Saudi General Entertainment Authority,  Takamol Holdings, Saudi Telecom Company and Bank Al Bilad just to name a few.

Rob Hamblin

Consultant ,TTM Associates

 A professionally qualified and experienced HR specialist with extensive knowledge and skills in  management and organisational development. I have more than 20 years’ experience in managing  human resource and development projects in large commercial and public sector organisations, in  the United Kingdom and abroad. In addition, I have experience of chairing a successful charitable  trust for more than twelve years.

KEY SKILLS

  • Providing an HRD consultancy service to Directors and Senior Executives across a range of UK and International companies.
  • Working on areas of change and development need that relate to the achievement of the organisation’s strategic goals.
  • Enabling the design, development and implementation of HR Strategies in support of corporate objectives.
  • Managing teams of specialists to deliver organisational development, leadership and culture change initiatives.
  • Promoting development through the use of executive coaching & mentoring
  • Setting up and chairing a charitable trust, providing strategic vision, direction and leadership: ensuring compliance and due diligence at all levels.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND INSTITUTE MEMBERSHIP

  • Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
  • P.G.C.E. – Post graduate Certificate in Education – University of London
  • I.P.D. – Certificate in Training and Development
  • British Psychological Society – Accredited in the use of Psychometric Testing Levels A & B.
  • SHL – Qualified in the use of OPQ, MQ, IMC, PMC & MAS
  • Licensed in the use of Myers Briggs. Firo B, S & F and Hogan DHS
  • Certified NLP Practitioner & Hypno-therapist

Jean-Luc Kastner

Managing Partner Europe,TTM Associates

 Jean-Luc Kastner, PhD, is a focused Consultant in Strategic Management Marketing, Sales and he has developed and structured a network of International Consultants specialized in business management and reengineering. Jean-Luc is currently a TTM Managing partner based in France. He has developed a comprehensive Sales and Marketing Management Model based on more then 25 years of Industrial research with the Herrmann Institute.

Within the last five years, he has been instrumental in large skill development programs with companies such as: Reuters and Philip Morris Kazakhstan amongst other organizations. Tyco Healthcare, Data logic, Bayer and Vodafone Greece have all redesigned their sales approach with Jean-Luc’s advice and support.

 Jean-Luc is a typical “non-academic”; his experience was gained “on the job” in several management roles in blue chip organisations such as HP, Boston Scientific and Fresenius where he managed the International Sales and Marketing Operations and had to lead a crucial change management program: the shift from transactional product focused  Sales to Consultative, Value based Sales. Jean-Luc is currently involved in One to One management coaching projects at General Manager and VP level in the B2B Industry, and works in English, German and French. In the last three years he has been focusing on the EMEA market and has a good understanding of the Middle East & Gulf cultures. His Academic titles ( Engineering PhD – ENIM) enables him to teach within a number of Governmental programs in France and abroad. Jean-Luc is and accredited FFCP Professional Coach and Herrmann International.

Abdullah Gareth Hood

General Manager, Solutions & Operations Senior Consultant,TTM Associates

Abdullah is an expert in developing and implementing Human Capital Strategy and Talent Management activities in complex environments with diverse individuals.

Originally from the UK, Abdullah began his career working in British Telecom on customer retention and sales programs before being promoted into sales management. Abdullah transitioned into People Development & Training leading the development and implementation of front line and people management training across 1,500 employees.

His career then moved into a start-up telecoms business before accepting a new position in Savola Group in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. During his career in Savola, Abdullah held a number of senior HR roles across talent management, recruitment, organizational design, compensation and employee relations. In addition he worked across Saudi, Egypt, North West Africa and Turkey. Abdullah was appointed as GM of HR for a large industrial conglomerate before being headhunted as the Director of HR for a multi-national pharmaceutical company.

Consequently, Abdullah has unique ‘hands on’ experience of building and delivering results in multinational and family owned companies in the sectors of Construction, Engineering, Retail, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Telecoms and Transportation.

He has a Diploma in Business Admin and in Strategic Management & Leadership and he is certified in Strategic Human Resources Management.

Dr. Magdi A.Ismail

Principal Consultant, Director MENA & Turkey,TTM Associates

Dr. Magdi Ismail currently lives in Cyprus where he manages the TTM associates MENA & Turkey office and commute between, Dubai, Istanbul and London. Magdi resided in Egypt & Saudi Arabia and works across many countries, including, UK, Belgium, France, Turkey, Greece, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

He studied pharmaceuticals sciences and commenced his entrepreneurship adventures in the early 90s, while he was still studying in the Faculty of Pharmacy. Magdi started his practical life early when still a student he opened his retail pharmacy in order to secure a good future for himself.

Magdi’s career thereafter focused on the fields of strategy, marketing, sales and customer management in the pharmaceutical industry. For the past 20 years he followed his career development in various international companies, including (Rhone Poulenc (Sanofi-Aventis), and Organon NV in the Middle East. During this period, he got the experience of launching and marketing many products in the Middle East. Also Magdi combines pragmatic knowledge and experience of managing and doing business in the Middle East, while at the same time he has the awareness and understanding of the international business culture. He currently consults global organizations in the Eastern Mediterranean countries on Time to Market, Strategy Formulation and Implementation, Customer Management and Portfolio Management. Magdi is a subject-matter expert and a consultant for TMC and he currently manages the TTM associates regional office in the Middle East.

He holds degrees in Pharmaceutical Sciences and an MBA from Henley Management School, UK. Magdi also is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and a certified practitioner for the Herrmann Brain Dominant Instrument, France. Magdi is married and has 4 children, 2 girls and 2 boys. He enjoys reading about history and cultural differences and he likes playing soccer and squash.