Humanise: Why Human-Centred Leadership is the Key to the 21st Century

PART III Human-Centred Leadership in action

A map for your leadership journey

Part II introduced the concept of the Journey Map for your life, building the elements that move you from where you are to where you are going, emphasising who you are on the journey before focusing on what you do along the way (figure C).

Figure C: life Journey Map

The Journey Map gives a framework for answering four key questions:

• Here: Where are you today?
• There: Where are you going?
• Being: Who are you going to be on the way?
• Doing: What are you going to do to get there?

The map can also be applied in your role as a leader of a company, country or community, asking the same questions albeit in an organisational context.

Figure D shows what the map looks like when you add organisational questions.

Figure D: organisational Journey Map

Although this map does not capture the complexity of running a vast enterprise, it does enable you to look out toward your Purpose while maintaining an overview of Strategy — how you are going to fulfil that Purpose — and Culture, or the kind of organisation you want to lead.

Like your own Journey Map, once you have created this map, and answered the big questions, you can scale it to any time frame. When you know why your organisation exists, you can reduce ...