Welcome to Your Free Organizational Leadership System Assessment
Thanks for navigating through our website to arrive here. Besides curiosity, the driving questions behind this assessment are:
- What does my current Organizational Leadership System (OLS) look like?
- Why is having a strong OLS critical for sustainable success?
The OLS Assessment you will access in a few minutes will help you identify what does or does not exist prior to beginning your journey to Performance Excellence.
Is it safe to assume that you have toggled on the button “Performance Excellence” on the right side of each page under “The GuideStar System” or “Success Stories.”
If you have a basic understanding of Performance Excellence from these other locations on our site, then please proceed to fill out the form below to access your free OLS assessment.
What does the Organizational Leadership System (OLS) have to do with Performance Excellence?
Peter Drucker once said, “Every organization is perfectly designed to achieve the results it gets.” If you want great results, you must start with a great design. Sustainable success is achieved by design, NOT chance.
Senior leaders need to define leadership behaviors and practices while building the Organizational Leadership System to achieve systemic alignment stage that can propel the Journey to Performance Excellence.
The assessment that follows assesses organizational practices related to the Four Pillars of Character-based Capitalism. There is one page for each pillar, the results of which will appear on the last (sixth) page within the attached Excel workbook:
- “Shared core values” define the cultural foundation through which acceptable attitudes, behaviors, and practices are established, reinforced, and rewarded.
- “Everyone is a leader” demonstrates how employees influence decisions made by others, especially the external customers who determine the economic value of the company.
- “Transcendent organizational purpose” looks at how employees gladly and willingly devote their mental and physical energies to strengthen the company and make the world a better place.
- “Commitment to performance excellence” examines how performance is embedded within your company to drive continuous improvement and foster collaboration, innovation, and mindfulness.
Commitment to performance excellence engages six key attributes through which leaders build the right culture for innovation and growth. These attributes align with three critical dimensions of organizational growth:
- Leadership: Understanding and applying the principles of emotionally intelligent and transformational leadership, which are essential within a character-based culture.
- Knowledge: Transparency throughout a company and collaboration (shared creation) are foundational operating principles for organizational learning to evolve.
- Execution: Teamwork (vs. group work) and mindfulness (to prevent failures) are two key practices through which individuals and teams innovate and perform better
Performance Excellence Depends on the Leadership System in Effect
Now, more than ever, organizational leaders are concerned about getting results because of the seismic shifts occurring in the external environment, which is another reason for a paradigm shift. The National Baldrige Performance Excellence Award uses a design that serves as an excellent framework for discussion and execution. This design has been used by high performers to not only weather external storms but continue to excel despite external factors.
We all want great results, but how do we get them? Most organizations focus on the bottom three elements-Performance, Workforce, and Data Management, which requires left-brain, analytical management tools and assessment.
However, high performers focus first on right-brained, creative leadership to address customer focus and Strategic Planning, the root of which is the Leadership System that guides the direction and efforts of everyone within the organization and from which emerge right-brained creative thinking and collaboration to drive innovation and growth.
With this background, please complete the form below to receive your free copy of the assessment tool.