Leadership Principles and Purpose Developing Leadership Effectiveness and Future-Focused Capability

CONTENTS

List of Figures

Preface: Future-Focused Leadership

About the Author

Introduction

Introduction                 

Elements of Exceptional Performance

Identifying Superordinate Principles

Part 1    Gaining Insight

1.         Leadership Essentials                     

            Understanding a VUCA World

Developing High Performance

Steps to Increased Effectiveness             

2.         Invisible Trip-Wires           

            Achieving Exceptional Performance

Barriers to Learning Agility

The Importance of Insight

3.         Motivation & Commitment

            Setting Objectives and Creating Incentives

Management Standards and the Motivational Pathway

Maintaining Balance

4.         Leadership Insights

Vision and Effective Action

Profiling Effective Leaders

Motivation and Purpose at Work                        

5.         Authentic Leadership         

Developing Leadership Ability

Gaining Insight from Balanced Processing

Challenges Facing Authentic Leaders

6.         Developing Capability        

            Exploring Work Behaviour

Improving Performance Management

Developing Resilience

7.   Coaching for Exceptional Results      

Solution Focused Coaching

Purposeful Conversations

Additional Questioning Techniques

8.   Developing Potential            

Seeing Things Clearly

The Rules of the Game

Developing Future-Focused Potential

Part 2    Taking Action                           

Introduction: Developing Leadership Skills                                 

Module  1:   Elements of High Performance                    

Module  2:   Effectiveness at Work                                 

Module  3:   The Work Preference Report

Module  4:   Analysis and Problem Solving                      

Module  5:   Developing Opportunities               

Module  6:   Working with People                                   

Module  7:   Personal Impact and Influence                     

Module  8:   Effective Decision-Making                          

Module  9:   Focusing on Outcomes                               

Module 10:  Summary and Review                                  

Part 3        ChatGPT Comments

Clarifying Concepts & Principles

1.  Intangibles, Corporate Culture & Value

2.  ESG Requirements and ‘Returns to Shareholders’

3.  Ethics, Values and Superordinate Principles

4.  ‘First Principles’ vs. Superordinate Principles

5.  AGI and Leadership Capability

6.  Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) and Job Crafting

7.  Doughnut Economics and Leadership

8.  The Concept of ‘Emotional Labour’

9.  Legacy Thinking and a Quantum Future

10. The Consequences of Systemic Educational Deficits

11. The Impact of Performance-Related Pay

12. Super-Ps and Post Modernist Theory

Appendix

1         Superordinate Principles & Self Determination Theory

2         Team Index Overview   

3         Bayesian Reasoning and Occam’s Razor

4         How Principles Get Hijacked 

Biography

David Sharpley is a senior business psychologist specializing in developing potential and creating conditions for exceptional performance. He has completed extensive research relating to leadership, guiding principles, and purpose. David has also developed the Pario online resources, which include surveys, 360 feedback, and work-preference profiling.

His experience includes collaboration with JCS Investments in Ghana, facilitating new business, and developing capability. David has extensive experience relating to the design and implementation of senior management/leadership development. Significant UK initiatives include work with BT, the financial sector, FTSE 250 companies, the NHS, and leading charities. He understands key factors affecting motivation and commitment.

David has also run Master-Class workshops on Competency Profiling & Assessment in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and Bangkok. His lecturing experience at Warwick University (WMG) explored issues relating to Organizations, People, and Performance. David has the experience and insight needed to question outdated ideas and identify how to achieve exceptional performance.