Shape Leadership

Shape Leadership is a consortium of internationally recognised Leadership Advisors, who all share the goal to make Leadership Excellence real. "Leadership Excellence with Measurable Results" is a structured process for leading executives that provides them with support towards realising their full potential. Good leadership development always leads to new insights but seldom to lasting changes in certain patterns of behaviour. Why is this so? It’s because as creatures of habit, our brains tend to regard new forms of behaviour as energy sapping and in day-to-day life we prefer to reserve our energy for emergencies. The challenge as an executive leader is thus not so much concerned with understanding on an intellectual level which patterns of behaviour need to be changed, but rather in ensuring on a practical level that the changes actually happen and are established as a new routine. What does this require? Apart from the commitment to making a change and the insight involved, it primarily needs the support of those who are a part of our working day and who provide feedback about whether the changes we aspire to are actually taking place. This approach guarantees the transformation of insight into action, resulting promptly in tangible success and showing how progress with the help of feedback works. Owing to the process of continual feedback, the newly introduced pattern of behaviour is internalized to the extent that it soon becomes an established routine.