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Synapse Leadership Innovation is an outcome-focused leadership development business enabling new and existing leaders to break free of the shackles of incrementalism and tradition. SLI challenge existing mindsets, releasing the courage, capability, insight, and energy to thrive as individuals and leaders creating a compelling present and future for themselves and their stakeholders.
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Experience, evidence, research and intuition tell us that innovation in how people lead organisations can liberate opportunities, beliefs and behaviours capable of creating and delivering material and cultural gains of strategic scale that will make most traditional commercial strategies – NPD, acquisition, category, channel – pale into insignificance.
What clients say… |
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It is in the gift of three key communities to deliver impact of strategic scale
We work with these communities and individuals to help them identify and deliver against their “thrive imperatives”. |
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Our clients are our partners. To that partnership we bring
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commercial acumen and leadership experience; |
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executive coaching, mentoring, facilitation and assessment skills; |
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a network of complementary specialists,together under one philosophical banner |
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the greatest and most sustainable growth comes from asking illuminating and challenging questions rather than from supplying knowledge of best practise
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| Research is very clear that in this multi-stakeholder, multi-cultural and highly competitive era historical definitions of great leadership are more likely to inhibit than release potential Today’s environment and demands call for new types of talent and leadership delivering consistently across all fronts. |
Left Brain  Whole Brain
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Business has been dominated by left brain thinking for the last century – analysis, process, detail, logical straight line thinking. Great for manufacturers, computer programmers, number crunchers and six sigma fans.
Bringing in our right brain thinkers will bring sight of the big picture – trends we can tap into –it will bring creativity that can discover new ways to capture new opportunities that left brain business would argue could not be accessed even if they did exist.
Whole brain businesses will be the ones that pioneer their way up and away from the pressures of recession while the old-fashioned left-brainers try and cost-cut their way down through it to a de-valued future
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Analysis synthesis
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Pockets of analysis deliver limited value, increments at best. Joined-up insights about existing and potential external stakeholders are those on which thriving futures will be built. What are the macro external dynamics for the stakeholders of today and tomorrow? how are you connected to them?
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Added value design
| The most successful brands are those which have been most highly augmented going way beyond functionality to connect emotionally, culturally, even spiritually. This should be the model of how we seek to connect our offer to our stakeholders |
Argument story
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Differentiation remains a constant barrier to entry. Statistics and attractive returns go so far, but to truly connect requires a context brought to life with emotional impact, engaging the audience with your scenario and bonding them within it.
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Command and control inspiration, collaboration and engagement
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We have all learnt that the transactional, command and control, style of leadership caps the potential of any team. However, those who have struggled to learn the more potent transformational style are likely to revert to type under pressure – the time when it is most critical to inspire greater things from one’s team. When the outcome needs to be greater than the sum of the parts
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Internal focus total stakeholder value chain commitment
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Finding comfort in the familiarity of the deck chairs will not save the ship from sinking! It is only by finding new/ better/more connected ways of satisfying existing and new stakeholders that we can create a thriving destiny. New structures, lower costs and lower prices have to end somewhere – only propositions can continually evolve.
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Mono-cultural leadership diverse leadership using 100% of the talent pool
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New opportunities, new solutions, new cultures struggle to emerge from homogenous leadership – defined, as it is, by its sameness. Challenging these “norms”, the way things have always been done, and creating new futures requires diverse perspectives. Businesses must see beyond on their blind spots to create their most competitive talent proposition.
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| We work with business leaders (execs, non-execs, entrepreneurs), emerging leaders (senior management, spot-light talent, newly promoted leaders, leaders of strategic projects), women in leadership or aspiring to leadership and HR professionals responsible for talent and leadership development. |
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Every organisation and every individual is unique so nothing we do is off-the-shelf. As experts in our field we have defined the critical components and nuances. However, we seek first to assess where the gaps exist and understand the way our clients work before proposing approaches to bring out the priority changes in the areas identified.
We believe in working with live challenges tied in with business planning cycles
We have found that the greatest gains have been made by those with a high ambition-low ego profile.
We have developed a number of potent frameworks to ensure that development is rapid, personal and deeply embedded
Discovery Stream» «Thinkshop™
Orientation«»Growth™
Pause for success™
We also use
TGROW – classic coaching model
The Thinking Environment®
We work with complementary experts preferring to do the right thing rather than everything. We constantly listen, learn and grow our offer and capability
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