While leaders focus on the mission and concrete goals of their organization, they simultaneously find themselves at another intersection.  It involves the personal ambitions and values of that leader, his or her private concerns, an analytic understanding of the organization, and management of organizational dynamics and politics. 

A crystallized understanding of the current situation, often involving rapid assessment with a trusted advisor, is the fundamental basis for understanding your own role in organizational dynamics, and for producing the outcomes that you seek both for the organization and yourself.  Robert works closely with you to explore the following questions:

Personal Ambitions and Values: What is most meaningful in my professional life? What am I willing to support and where will I invest my energy? What do I want to accomplish in the long-term?  What values drive my actions? Does my work fit my integrity and what I know to be true about myself?

Personal Concerns: How do I understand my role? Where do I best fit?  With what lens do I see? What are people’s impressions of me? What stands in my way? What will happen to my job as change occurs? If I’m at risk, how can I mitigate the risk? Am I acting too slowly – quickly – subtly – forcefully?

Rational Analysis: What appears to be happening? What are the real causes, inside and outside the organization? Where do we agree, disagree and align?

Interpersonal and Organizational Politics: What are my relationships with others inside and outside the company? What are factors that lead to agreement, conflict, misalignment or alignment, and shift? How can I better understand and apply tools for consensus generation, alignment, conflict resolution, and negotiation?