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How Can Collaborative Leadership Deepen Engagement and Impact in Your Organization?

Updated: Jun 30

Have you taken the time to discover why and what you are doing and have it understood at every level in your organization? Does everyone have sights on your next point of leverage while taking efficient, forward action? If so, you have momentum propelling your business forward. If you see room for better execution and bigger results, the PLS Management Framework is for you.

This is a strategy wheel of systems thinking, purpose, VMCL, organized engagement, collaboration, and impact.
Executing the PLS Management Framework


The principles of the PLS Management Framework:


  • Transform inefficient interfaces, reclaiming unproductive business elements

  • Embed inclusion, diversity of thought, and self-expectation to engage and act

  • Enhance individual and group option access


This approach yields a staff with increasing capability and capacity, and step-ahead outcomes. The difficulty with today's business workplace experience is not a new problem; it's just running deeper - it's inefficiency. When thinking is left to organic development, it becomes a significant and costly underutilized resource that can even work against improvements. Since it permeates the entire business because it is prevalent in higher-level, non-task work, thinking influences the impact of all undertakings. Unaddressed, inefficiencies and errors in thinking dampens and dilutes projected outcomes.


The PLS Framework contains the following tenets:

  • Micro-to-Macro. Expand or dial-in thinking through Cabrera Lab DSRP using the brain's natural thought structure. DSRP tells us that thinking isn't something we do, it is something we get from applying four simple rules; the Distinctions, Systems, Relationships, and Perspectives Rule.

  • Modularization. Transferrable thought structures useful in multiple contexts accelerates learning and information sharing. These are "go-to" structures, cognitive moves, and frameworks that create familiar ground no matter the context or subject matter.

  • Pluralism. Value the insight gained from multiple perspectives, inclusion and diversity. Pluralism embraces devolution and power sharing by bringing all stakeholders to the table and ensures a tailored approach based upon blended knowledge, expertise, and methodology. It distributes power and accountability and seeds individual contribution and action.

  • Universality. Direction instead of detail empowers employees to think and act. There is also a commitment to a unified and consistent approach to interactions and leadership, and a fractal strategic structure.


How to implement these principles isn't as hard as you might think, nor does it take years to see substantial benefit. But it is a stepwise, layer-upon-layer approach and requires consistency in leadership message. Click on the elements below to learn more.

DSRP

The Theory: Thinking is an outcome of applying four simple rules. Awareness of these rules, and practice in applying them, increases your cognitive capacity. You think deeper, quicker, and smarter. For more information on DSRP click here.


Why it Works: DSRP opens thinking, removes bias, and helps build shared mental models so that there are deeper connections and understanding among employees. If regularly and repeatedly employed, DSRP yields reliably good results. It is the means for dialing in or expanding thinking, micro-to-macro; taking multiple perspectives, pluralism; supports modularization with cognitive structure that is also adaptable to any situation and the basis for universality.

Systems Thinking

Purpose

VMCL

Collaboration

Impact

When you and your employees realize no matter the context, the management approach and structure is still the same, this becomes familiar ground and creates efficiencies and comfort zones that emancipate participants that might not feel such freedom to take part. Powerful and efficient engagement puts more people on the same footing, and distributes power and accountability. This has the added benefit of reducing burnout of frontline supervisors and managers.


A young leader is happy and in the background are a collection of happy stakeholders
Contentment, success, and happiness at work is an achievable result

Establishing the right principles, structure, and thinking is pivotal in fostering significant positive impact. This approach is about the daily choices and the small steps that collectively lead to significant change.


Lori G. Fisher, PMP

PLS Management Consulting

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