Leadership

What does it take to be a successful leader in achieving digital maturity across your organisation?

We choose to answer this essential question with a short list of most important attributes to have for leaders, as well as a short, succinct description of each one.

Our driver behind the selected leadership attributes is to support the servant leader in an ‘empowered culture’. And we think it’s just another example of how digital can lead the way.

Helpful leadership attributes

Collaborator

Works across all boundaries to co-create better than what’s gone before

Adaptable

Learns and develops to be flexible in any situation, by trying new things, embracing failure and by broader thinking

Emotionally intelligent 

Always aiming to be in tune and to respond to colleagues, situations and environment

Listens

Find path to facilitating answers by listening and inquiring 

Organisation wide, non-hierarchical

Puts organisational thinking first and knows that good ideas can come from anywhere

Creates flow

Actively identifies and removes barriers and constraints to create flow across the organisation 

Clarity of purpose

Knows why the organisation exists and activates this purpose through all decisions, behaviours and activities 

Communication & storytelling

Exercises talent for bringing clarity, perspective, context and the ‘now what’ to life

Coaches & nurtures

Works as a servant leader activate and facilitate the best self out in colleagues through listening, supporting and enabling wherever possible 

Tests & learns

Learns, unlearns & relearns through endless curiosity in finding new ways of working, changing and moving forward