Dramatisation of a Leadership Model
Your vision of leadership and desired culture creates the context for everything that happens within your organisation, and most importantly, it creates the context for any leadership development or training you do.
When this context is successfully created knowledge and skills are acquired more rapidly. Standards for assessment are clearer making the assessment process more effective.
coup’s brand of 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. It accommodates complexity and situational dynamics. It presents Leadership as an immediate, creative and outcome-oriented role.
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.
This would be a discrete project that can be run within the design and development of a coup leadership program, or as a complement to a program developed and delivered by another provider. In either case, we work 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. Referencing the films
The films are referenced in assessment, training and personal study. They can also be used to inform recruitment firms.
The applications for the films go beyond the professional development activities. They can be used for recruitment pursposes - 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.