The Leadership Mantle – Co-Creating the Future
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Continued success is never guaranteed. There will always be a need for succession planning. Succession planning fills talent gaps.
“A person who does not plan for problems in the future will have problems in the present.”
Succession planning ensures leadership continuity. Leadership continuity is preparing each generation to serve in its time.
These are considerations to approaching leadership continuity in our own areas of influence:
- Anticipate the future.
- Assume the responsibility for the succession.
- Ensure smooth transition.
Leadership continuity is NOT Replacement but a Transition, for dialogue for new ways to serve a new generation. We aren’t focused on the people of the new generation that replaces us, more than we are preparing (that is, anticipating, assuming responsibility, and ensuring smooth transition) with the new generation in mind.
The concept of Estuaries: Estuaries are where old, salt (Seasoned) water mingle with new (Fresh) water, creating an environment which accommodates optimal growth.
Leadership Estuaries, on the other hand, are where old generations work together with the new generations, creating an environment that does not merely ensure continuity, but also growth.
Points for consideration when it comes to establishing said estuaries for growth:
- Encourage purposeful convergence, or all we have is salt water, a Dead Sea.
- Encourage intentional sharing of platforms. Hold nothing back. Again, the focus is on the next generations, not on the next leadership.
- Encourage mutual growth and trust the results. Emphasize the need to grow together.
- Engender // cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation, or condition) Propitious Participation
- Entrust pivotal roles to trusted people. Criteria: Said roles should be communicated and monitored/transitioned properly. As with ‘previous’ leadership, the focus of those with the roles ought to be given with the new generations in mind.
- What a senior leader says gives weight – as such, the focus for estuaries and for the new generations has to be realized, understood and appreciated, and consequently communicated from the top. Continuity of leadership results.
- Posterity’s Perpetuity
- Give proper acknowledgement of the past generations for the sake of the future leaders and their own generations. There should be deeper appreciation of experienced leaders – deeper than mere respect of seniority, but also their resilience and experience.
- There should also be deeper appreciation of new leaders’ learning curve – their ability to pick up and apply quicker must also be integrated with the open-mindedness and the curiosity of mixing and matching, melding two good things to make one better thing.
Great leaders do not create more followers, but more leaders.
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