Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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Warren Bennis
For any new corporate or political leader, the first 100 days will be the most vital – it can define your whole leadership tenure and their success in shaping the future.
Upon taking up a new leadership role there will be an ever increasing set of decisions to make and challenges to navigate through from entering through the front door. These will only further grow, only further become potentially more complex, and this is before making their mark as a leader where all eyes are on them.
Every single minute counts.
Effective leaders know that every minute counts - each one is a further step in establishing both their presence and leading through to their framework for delivering success. With leadership comes pressure, expectation and a personal desire to succeed – coming from the organisation and the leader personally.
No leader wants to fail.
The best leaders very quickly prioritise the actions that require their focus, the actions that can make or break their tenure. Every leader wants to be a ‘winner’ and make their personal impact to deliver success. This starts with galvanizing the humans in the organisation into a winning team – often this will include reshaping structures and responsibilities and making new hires to the executive team who will deliver upon the objectives set by the leader.
The 100 days – delivering impact through change
Within the first 100 days, the leader will want to define the organisation’s north star which should be purpose-led, bringing a sense of meaning to the organisation, why it exists and its reason for being. It should be the fundamental motivation which inspires the vision and the resulting strategy that helps you get there whilst operating with authenticity and truth within the organisations local and global ecosystem.
The most successful leaders know that this is when they take on great counsel to navigate the path of the success – real leaders listen, they ask the right questions, they make the decisions that count. This is the moment when true effective leaders soar into the stratosphere, eclipsing others.
These first 100 days, therefore, can define the success of the organisation by setting the tone that will reverberate positively throughout the organisation, even through a period of change. This reverberating tone should be accompanied with a culture of success which are reflected in the values of the organisation form the connective tissue that drives your entire culture. This is true irrespective of whether it is in the corporate or political world.
Former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, sums this up far more eloquently. “What you do in the first 100 days is important and symbolic and can also have tremendously positive repercussion for the government and throughout country. You have a limited window of opportunity to make an impact as a government”
The Manara Global Opportunity
At Manara Global, we partner with leaders to provide them with the right counsel to achieve the right results. We are experienced communicators and problem solvers. We listen. We challenge. We get to the heart of an issue. We always have a point of view. We help you to find your purpose and your power.
We love nothing more than working with interesting people, doing interesting work. From working with leaders to define the organisational north star, the strategy development that delivers success towards it, along with defining their own leadership positions and narratives, we deliver impactful solutions to problems and challenges as part of our 100 day plan approach. Our ‘100 day plan’ delivers the blueprint to enable success across 365 days of the year, year on year, all set within the context of your operational eco-system.
We have built our careers on the creation, promotion and protection of reputations. We combine a deep understanding of your ambition, the issues you face within the complex stakeholder ecosystem you operate within, both locally and globally, to develop compelling and creative reputation management programs – that are human-centric, purpose-led and aim to create trust with your audiences.