SIOPA UPDATE: STRATEGIC PLANNING WITH DAVID BLYTH
On Monday 9th of April, the SIOPA Board and Advisory Group held their first Strategic Planning Session for the year last week hosted by strategist and Adjunct Associate Professor at the UWA Business School, David Blyth.
The strategic planning session helped us become more focused on SIOPA’s priorities, as well as develop an effective action plan to provide more value for our members, and to better-advocate for the field of I/O Psychology.
The strategic session was a good showcase of the collaborative nature that SIOPA uses to create industry change.
But what drives effective strategy? According to David Blyth himself:
“Strategy is ultimately an expression of collective mental models. To create a strategy that is more than ‘mere incrementalism’ we must therefore create new mental models. Most major strategic shifts reflect a fundamental shift in the framing of the strategic context.”
He has compiled the following video that offers insights from thought leaders in strategy:
The strategic session was a good showcase of the collaborative nature that SIOPA uses to create industry change.
According to the white paper by Oxford Leadership, Collaborative Leadership is process of engaging collective intelligence to deliver results across organisational boundaries when ordinary mechanisms of control are absent.
“It’s grounded in a belief that all of us together can be smarter, more creative, and more competent than any of us alone, especially when it comes to addressing the kinds of novel, complex, and multi-faceted problems that organisations face today. It calls on leaders to use the power of influence rather than positional authority to engage and align people, focus their teams, sustain momentum, and perform. Success depends on creating an environment of trust, mutual respect, and shared aspiration in which all can contribute fully and openly to achieving collective goals. Leaders must thus focus on relationships as well as results, and the medium through which they operate is high-quality conversation.