The Valuedance
Valuedance® uses its’ IT Credibility Cycle framework (introduced in 2001 and refined over the years) to help in diagnosing and planning IT leadership development improvement opportunities. Credibility is the cornerstone of IT executive effectiveness and through successive improvements – IT can transition to have a more strategic and transformative impact. Throughout the course of each day, IT executives must organize in order to strategize; strategize in order to deliver; deliver in order to realize, and realize value in order to build credibility. The approaches utilized within each of the components of the Credibility Cycle must reflect the values, abilities and aspirations of the leader, and align with the strategies and capabilities of the enterprise. Correctly positioned, success leads to new, exciting opportunities and challenges, and moves the enterprise towards the IT holy grail of IT-business alignment and the utilization of IT for strategic advantage. Conversely, incapable organizations, inappropriate strategy, and delivery failures can lead to the “cycle of failure,” so often played out in the trade press.
The Valuedance® leadership development approach focuses on jumpstarting the Credibility Cycle through three developmental venues based on a common core curriculum. These venues include one-on-one coaching, seminars, and leadership action teams. Venues differ in terms of time commitment, cost, and understandably, expected impact.
One-on-one coaching is the choice for executives who wish to accelerate development and are willing to devote the time and money to do so. Coaching is suitable for executives preparing for future roles, facing significant transitions, feeling stymied by feedback and obstacles, or wishing to reenergize their leadership approach and play, once again, on the edge.
Seminars are a wonderful way to gain exposure or review the fundamentals of effective IT leadership. While it is true that classroom training does not typically result in significant behavior changes – the information conveyed – in discriminating and motivated hands, can serve as a cornerstone to identifying developmental opportunities and catalyzing further action.
Leadership Action Teams provide a team based, experiential learning forum for leaders who have specific learning objectives, and want to network and learn from others. Team based, action learning provides the structure, resources, assistance, and accountability necessary to deliver specific results within a predefined timeframe.
The Valuedance® development curriculum, modeled on the Credibility Cycle, consists of six leadership topic areas. Although there is a level of interdependence within the topics, Valuedance® has refined techniques that make it possible to “enter the cycle” at any point, according to priority and urgency, in order to realize short term gains and motivate longer term change.