How would you feel handling complex situations with ease - with a leadership that is genuine, clear, and transparent? The Genuine Contact Way offers a leadership approach where who you are aligns seamlessly with how you work. Simplifying your leadership makes a difference for yourself and the quality you offer to others, and it will bring out the best in other people so you can make a lasting impact together.  

Simplicity and clarity to handle complexity

To be effective when handling complex organizations and situations, leadership needs to be simple, clear and transparent. In Genuine Contact, leadership is not confined to a select few, it is a shared responsibility that empowers everyone to contribute their unique strengths. When people in leadership positions act in a way that makes it possible for others to take responsibility and lead, this creates a dynamic where the whole organization can move forward and thrive in constant change.

It starts with you! You, as a leader, take the first step by creating the necessary conditions. By simplifying leadership at every level of the organization, you can pave the way for a culture shift—one where everyone is valued as their whole, authentic selves. It's a place where collaboration thrives, and there's a collective understanding of the complexity where everyone works. To make this a reality, leadership needs to be simple, clear and supportive - and it starts with you!

Benefits

The modules in this learning path will equip you with tools, methods and strengths that will support your work with simplifying leadership for yourself and others. 

  • Leadership competencies and strengths that support you to take the necessary first steps and then will help you keep to your chosen path.
  • Meeting methods for ongoing use that serve as catalysts to create a culture change in the organization and support access to collective wisdom.
  • Frameworks that help you make strategic decisions about the road forward.
  • Simple and practical tools that are aligned with your words. They will show people around you, that you walk your talk. 
  • Exercises that help you create a healthy, sustainable foundation for your own leadership, and assist you to have a lasting impact on the organization

Approach

The Genuine Contact Way emphasizes the importance of organizational and individual health and balance for sustainability and success. You will learn how they can be combined for best results. This learning path also contains a holistic approach to organizational development. This is an approach that can engage and use the collective energy and wisdom for strategic work, embracing stories as an upholder of the organizational culture and inviting everyone's leadership in a simple and transparent way. The Genuine Contact Way has a proven record from different organizations throughout the world. It works! 

What’s included

This journey is divided in three phases with tailored workshops to help you develop skills progressively, ensuring lasting impact. 

  • Start: Entry into your journey by learning foundational concepts and simple tools for immediate use. Start with any module in this phase. 
  • Grow: Gain robust skills and build capacity to simplify leadership for yourself and in the organization.
  • Deepen: Gain mastery by exploring advanced applications. Use your skills to integrate a culture of leadership into the organisation’s core.

The modules in this learning path include:

Start

Grow

Deepen

 

Stewardship & Co-Ownership

Anyone who has completed the Simplifying Leadership learning path has the right – but not the responsibility – to participate in creating the future of the Genuine Contact Way and co-leading the Genuine Contact Organization as co-owners and stewards of the Genuine Contact Co-Owners Group, Inc. This global Genuine Contact Organization  is the steward of the GC Way and supports members of the Genuine Contact Organization in increasing the use of Genuine Contact in the world. This provides a practical experience of leadership in a global GCO when learning and collaborating together with people spanning a multitude of competencies, cultures, and languages.