TEMPLE Advisory, a leading talent development and a strategy consulting firm has launched the Strategic Leaders Program with the objective of supporting business to prepare and accelerate their transformation in 2020 and beyond.
The recent disruption and structural shifts in the local economy, coupled with heightened global tensions have created unique challenges and opportunities for leaders and organisations.
The Strategic Leaders Program organised by TEMPLE Advisory was an opportunity for executives to share ideas and insights needed to rewrite the script and accelerate organisational transformation for a better society.
Strategic Leaders Program offered senior executives an opportunity to challenge assumptions, gain clarity, and think creatively about what it takes to deliver organisational transformation in a rapidly changing and challenging market environment.
The reasons why one organisation falters while another accelerates performance are many but at the core of these are; lack of deeper understanding of the ecosystem of the organisation, strategic rigidities and disengaged teams. Organisations can only sustain their transformation when they pay attention to these three critical elements of the Accelerated Sustained Enterprise Transformation Framework, says Robert Bennin, Chief Learning Strategist at TEMPLE Advisory who is also the Program Director for the Strategic Leaders Program.
The Program used live cases studies of select Ghana companies that have achieved Accelerated Sustained transformation for a decade and above based on TEMPLE Advisory’s Accelerated Sustained Enterprise Transformation Framework.
Participants were from diverse industries including education, banking, insurance, community development, built environment, pensions, etc. Robert Bennin, Chief Learning Strategist at TEMPLE Advisory also mentioned that the main purpose of the program is to give executives the tools and insights to translate leadership actions into strategic initiatives that create ripples within the organisation and beyond, and leads to transformation.
The Keynote Speaker for the Program, Prince Kofi Amoabeng, President of UT Holdings, recounted and shared lessons from the various transformations the UT Group has gone through.
A key lesson was that leaders have to accept responsibility for what happens within their organisations. He also stressed that culture and values are critical elements of any organisational transformation program and leaders must lead this process. He cautioned executives to guard against “hubris”.
All the participants were pleased with the lessons from the program and poised to transform their organisations. Commenting on the program, one senior executive said “For me it’s been very helpful, it feels like one’s leadership has been scanned and the print out put before you so immediately you know what you need to change. Another said, “The Strategic Leaders Program was an opportunity to look at yourself and your organization in the mirror and see areas where you can improve”. TEMPLE Advisory’s mission is to accelerate enterprise transformation harnessing the power of learning in organisations.
TEMPLE Advisory intends to hold several sessions of the Strategic Leaders Program over the next 18 months so that businesses can learn and prepare for the next decade much stronger and sustainable. The next session of the Strategic Leaders Program is slated for July 30th.
