Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization - Hardcover

Pontefract, Dan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1943425418 ISBN 13: 9781943425419

Publisher: Elevate, 2016

Synopsis

Arms you with powerful tools for overcoming resistance to change and creating a culture of collaboration, engagement, and employee empowerment

Your people are your most valuable asset, and if you want them to excel (and your profits to soar), you'll need to abandon your traditional command-and-control management style and adopt a collaborative, open leadership approach - one that engages and empowers your people. While this isn't a particularly new idea, many leaders, while they may pay lip service to it, don't really understand what it means. And most of those who do get it lack the skills for putting it into practice. In Flat Army you'll find powerful leadership models and tools that help you challenge yourself and overcome your personal obstacles to change, while pushing the boundaries of organizational change to create a culture of collaboration.

• Develops an integrated framework incorporating collaboration, open leadership, technologies, and connected learning
• Shows you how to flatten the organizational pyramid and engage with your peoples in more collaborative and productive ways without undermining your authority
• Explains how to deploy a Connected Leader mindset, a Participative Leader Framework, and a Collaborative Leader Action Model
• Arms you with powerful tools for becoming a more visible leader who demonstrates the qualities and capabilities needed to become an agent of positive change

About this title

About the Author

Dan is the Chief Envisioner of TELUS Transformation Office; a future-of-work consulting group that assists organizations with their corporate culture, leadership practices, learning models, flexible work styles, and adoption of collaboration technologies.

Previously, as Head of Learning & Collaboration at TELUS, Dan championed the introduction of the TELUS Leadership Philosophy (TLP), an open and collaborative-based leadership framework for all 43,000+ TELUS team members. Between 2008 and 2014, employee engagement at TELUS soared from 53% to 85%. When he's not cycling, he's goofing around with Denise, Claire, Cole and Cate. You can reach him at www.danpontefract.com.

From the Back Cover

FLAT: to be on a level surface, not in a hierarchy

ARMY: a large group of people who share similar aims or beliefs

FLAT ARMY: an unobstructed flow of corporate commonality

Edition details

• Publisher: Elevate
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1943425418
• ISBN 13: 9781943425419
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 314