The Eleven General Orders of Leadership


How To Create Followship!


As a leader, we all face getting our team aligned with the vision. Our job is to set the mission. The team needs to figure out how to accomplish the objective. Force may work in the short term, but it isn’t a sustainable long-term strategy because it generates resistance. Working on the hearts and minds of others, so they feel they have ownership is more effective and less costly.

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The 11 General Orders of Leadership

The History of General Orders:

Commonly known as the "11 General Orders" in the military, these directives contain every possible scenario a sentry might encounter on duty and how to ensure their safety and that of others.  We show you how to use this thought process to create a high-performance culture within your organization.  

The Three Different Styles of Leadership

We will show you which is best for your organization and how to implement the right style.  The three styles are:

Transformational is leadership by example. This leadership style works well in a changing environment.

Servant Leadership motivates because the team feels that their supervisor has their best interests in mind.

Participative Leadership brings the entire team into the decision-making process.

Followership:

Followership is a reciprocal process of leadership that refers to the willingness to follow within a team or organization. It's true alignment across the organization.  It's the rocket fuel that propels the company to greatness.

How To Use Mission, Vision and Values:

Learn how to use your company's Mission, Vision, and Values to keep everyone focused on where the organization is going and what it is trying to achieve.

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The Talent Management Practice

People are one of your greatest assets and critical to the success of the company.  Your organization needs the right people with the right skills in the right positions at the right time. Creating a successful growth strategy for the business means attracting diverse sources of talent, continually assessing and developing the organization’s individual and collective talent, aligning people with the needs and objectives of the business, rewarding employees for performance in a competitive and motivating way, and engaging every employee in the pursuit of the company’s strategy and vision.

With PGOS, you can structure a super-effective talent management plan that will ensure alignment of your workforce with your strategy, improving productivity while increasing employee satisfaction and engagement. PGOS approaches talent management holistically, with a focus on the entire employee lifecycle, from attracting and recruiting clear through to succession and retirement.

The process defines the crucial collaboration between human resources and other departments and lays out all the elements of regular review and continuous improvement of the company’s talent management program.

As a leader, you are not only responsible, but accountable for talent development. It takes "200% Focus" to be successful to development the team:  The leader must be accountable for 100% of the associate's development and the associate must be accountable for 100% for their own personal development.

Courage is required.

The Eleven General Orders of Leadership

As a leader, we all face getting our team aligned with the vision. Our job is to set the mission. The team needs to figure out how to accomplish the objective. Force may work in the short term, but it isn’t a sustainable long-term strategy because it generates resistance. Working on the hearts and minds of others, so they feel they have ownership is more effective and less costly.

Part of the PGOS Library of Books

You'll learn:

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Hearts & Minds - Engage with impact and affinity

02.

Move with Speed and Percision.  Goal is progress, not perfection.

03.

Four Bee's: Be Brief, Brilliant, Critical, and Gone

04.

Be Data Drive - Rules of thumb will produce below average results

05.

No Surprises - Relatives and bad news all stink after three days

06.

Be on Pace - Don't get ahead or behind your team

07.

Results Matter - We will not be a 'best efforts' company.  We must win!

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About Bill Canady

Bill Canady has been leading companies to profitable growth for over 30 years. Working in a variety of industries and markets focused on industrial as well as consumer products and services, he brings to the table a unique Operating System and uses it in a 100-day campaign to position the company for profitable growth. Combining vision and process, Canady aligns leadership and other critical stakeholders to earn the right to grow and then to claim that right with a 3-to-5-year business plan for targeted, strategic growth. He believes in bringing the right tools to the job and developing strong leaders and management teams to use them. His experience encompasses global public, private, and sponsor-owned firms.

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