The capacity to collaborate and create community is core to any organization that wants sustainable performance. A crucial quality leaders need is to be relationally and psychologically agile. As Victor Frankl described, between every stimulus and response there is a space, and in the space is our freedom.

Real Time Leadership helps leaders not only make that space, but know what to do when they’ve found it. This framework provides a series of evidence based frameworks pulling from multiple theories and frameworks (technical eclecticism) to offer a four-component model for leaders and leadership coaches to increase sustainability and performance under pressure.

The M.O.V.E frameworks include how to be

1. Mindfully Alert
2. Create Options Generator
3. Have the capacity to validate one’s Vantage Point and
4. And Engage and Effect Enduring Change.

Each of these components helps leaders to make choices that foster collaborative environments and high-quality relationships. These can be applied on an individual, team and organizational level. In the talk we will only focus on being Mindfully Alert and Options Generator.

In this highly interactive presentation/mini workshop I’ll first describe the Real Time Leadership model.

Mindfully Alert is the capacity to be mindful and centered but also highly alert like an athlete. Aware of what? We believe there are three dimensions of leadership:
1st dimension: What you need to do.
2nd dimenstion: Who you need to be
3rd dimension: How you need to relate.

After describing these we will have an exercise exploring the participants strengths and areas to develop along these three dimensions.

We then look at being an Options Generator. This work builds on Synder and Lopez work on WayPower and Hope theory. To be optimally relationally agile leaders need to have four set of choices available to them in any interaction. We describe these as four stances to take.

These are to:
Lean in, and be action oriented
Lean back, and be data oriented
Lean with and be people oriented
Don’t lean, and be reflection oriented.

I often share with the leaders I coach, I don’t care what you do, I care that you have all four of these options available to you and what you do is a choice. This is a high bar for all of us.