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Blue Ocean LeadershipTools and Frameworks
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Blue Ocean LeadershipTools and Frameworks
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Leadership Canvas
The Leadership Canvas is an analytic visual that shows just how managers at given level invest their time and effort, as perceived by the customers of their leader-ship. A small organization may only need one level, while the larger organization may need all three man-agement levels (front-line, mid-level and senior manag-ers).
The Leadership Profiles are created by pooling findings and determining, based on frequency of citation, the dominant leadership acts and activities at each level. These get registered on the horizontal axis of the as-is curves, and the extent to which leaders do them is registered on the vertical axis.
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The As-Is and To-Be Leadership Canvas of Midlevel Managers
Tim
e an
d Eff
ort
MAKE MORE THAN ONE
PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
SAME INITIATIVE
REQUEST FREQUENT DETAILED
PROGRESS REPORST ON
INITIAVES
ENFORCE COMPLIANCE WITH SPECIFIED
REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR
BUSINESS ACTIVITIES
REQUIRE AND REVIEW
JUSTIFICATIONS FOR DECISIONS
FROM BELOWSPEND TIME WITH
SENIOR MANAGERS
CREATE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT
FOR LEARNINGEXPLAIN THE
STRATEGY CLEARLY
COACH PEOPLE
EMPOWER FRONTLINE MANAGERS TO
STRETCH THEMSELVES
SET PERFORMANCE GOALS
TOGETHER
SHARE BEST PRACTIVES
ACROSS TEAMS
ALIGN REWARDS WITH
PERFORMANCE
E L I M I N AT E R E D U C E R A I S E C R E AT E
Key Leadership Activities
TO - B E L E A D E R S H I P P R O F I L E
A S - I S L E A D E R S H I P P R O F I L E
High
Low
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The Blue Ocean Leadership Grid
The Blue Ocean Leadership Grid is an analytic tool that challenges people to think about which acts and activi-ties leaders should do less of because they hold people back, and which leaders should do more of because they inspire people to give their all. Current activities from the leaders’ “as-is” profiles (which may add value or not), along with new activities that employees believe would add a lot of value if leaders started doing them, are assigned to the four categories in the grid. Organizations then use the grids to develop new pro-files of effective leadership.
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The Blue Ocean Leadership GridEliminate Raise
Reduce Create
What acts and activities do leaders invest their time and intelligence in that should be eliminated?
What acts and activities do leadersinvest their time and intelligence in that should be raised well above their current level?
What acts and activities do leaders invest their time and intelligence in that should be reduced well below their current level?
What acts and activities should leaders invest their time an intelligence in that they currently don’t undertake.
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