Dramatisation of a leadership or behavioural model
Your vision of leadership or your desired culture creates the context for everything that happens within your organisation, and most importantly, it creates the context for any leadership development or behavioural training you do.
Perhaps you are working with the Human Synergistics tools and talking about red, green and blue behaviour; or seeking to cultivate a more constructive "achievement-oriented" culture in your leadership team.
Perhaps you have developed your own leadership competency framework, or are using other psycographic models - DISC, Herman Brain Dominance, Myers-Briggs, etc - to help build more effective, collaborative teams.
When the context is successfully created knowledge and skills are acquired more rapidly. Standards for assessment are clearer making the assessment process more effective.
Narrative drama is the best format for capturing and communicating your vision. This approach:-
- Personalises the principles and skills that will shape your desired culture
- Accommodates complexity and situational dynamics
- Presents leadership as an immediate, creative and outcome-oriented role
- Provides employees with proof that certain behaviours contribute to a more successful and sustainable approach to work.
Put simply, people can see, feel and hear what is expected of them. This causes the synapses to connect – the learning is transferred – faster and more holistically.
coup is a unique provider in this field. We integrate specialist knowledge and expertise in business consulting, professional development, organisational development and quality film-making. Or to put it more succinctly; "We get it and we can help others get it."
Dramatisation of a model can be undertaken within the design and development of one of our leadership programs, or as a complement to a program developed and delivered by another provider. In either case, we work collaboratively and creatively through five key phases:-
1. Consulting with the business
Clarifying the how the leadership model relates to the day-to-day realties of leaders.
2. Writing the scripts
Collaborating with business and the leadership model design team as the scripts go through several drafts.
3. Producing the films
Casting of roles and organising locations precedes the production. Production takes place over a handful of shooting days. During post-production early drafts of the edit are screened and discussed. Editting and polishing continue until the final films are signed-off.
4. Distributing the films
A distribution strategy would include the staging of events, narrowcast over the internet or distributed to personal media player systems (iPods, iPhones MP4 players)
5. Leveraging the films
The films can be leveraged in training, assessment and personal study. Short transactional dramas stored on portable media players can be used to provide just-in-time reminders for busuness development people out on the road. Episodic dramas can be released to the staff over the intranet, or screened in cafeteria's or corporate foyers.
The applications for the films go beyond the professional development activities. They can be used for recruitment purposes - indeed to share with the people recruiting the talent for you business so that they know exactly what to be on the lookout for. The films can be shown in induction programs to set the standards from the outset.
The key is the quality of conception and the realisation of it. A crappy two dimensional drama achieves little. A good drama stays with people, engages hearts and minds and provides a bridge to a high performing future.