1. Copyright© Roger Lane Consulting Ltd 2007 Chief of Air Staff Leadership Conference – Changing Culture? 18-19 July 2007 Leadership for Challenging Environments Roger Lane Consulting Ltd Leadership Development and Executive Coaching Multi-National Command in Contemporary Operations: Empowerment Realities and Myths

2. Copyright© Roger Lane Consulting Ltd 2007 Aim To stimulate thinking about empowerment in multinational operations in order to contribute to RAF thinking on agile leadership.

3. Copyright© Roger Lane Consulting Ltd 2007 The FEEL FITTER Agenda for High Performance Focus on V4 - Vision, Values, Velocity and Virtue Empowerment and Motivation Efficient, Effective Delivery Linking and Relationships Flexibility and Agility Innovation and Improvement Team Work and Partnerships Transparency Empathy Recognition and Appreciation

4. Copyright© Roger Lane Consulting Ltd 2007 Empowerment “ Empowerment is all about giving people power to make decisions.”

5. Copyright© Roger Lane Consulting Ltd 2007 Empowerment Position Power - aircraft captain or squadron command Knowledge Power - avionics engineer Task Power - Air Load Master Relationship Power - sitting next to CAS at dinner! Personal Power - personal attributes and interpersonal skills

6. Copyright© Roger Lane Consulting Ltd 2007 Empowerment “ Empowerment is the creation of an organisational climate that releases the knowledge, experience and motivation that resides in people.” Ken Blanchard, “Leading at a Higher Level”

7. Copyright© Roger Lane Consulting Ltd 2007 Empowerment “ The price of empowerment and freedom is a share in the risk and taking responsibility.”

8. Copyright© Roger Lane Consulting Ltd 2007 Empowerment – the Language Share information with everybody Create autonomy through clear direction as to what is to be achieved and within what constraints (boundary management) Transform hierarchical organisations into self-directed individuals and teams ++ ++ +

9. Copyright© Roger Lane Consulting Ltd 2007 Empowerment and Multinational Command Positional Power: Commander is in an institutional position of weak authority. Knowledge Power: Nations are reluctant to share Intelligence and information. Task Power: Nations reluctant to resource operations properly; impose caveats. Relationship Power: Capacity to create and leverage network of relationships. Personal Power: Personal power; and cost of leadership.

10. Copyright© Roger Lane Consulting Ltd 2007 WAYS ENDS MEANS COMMAND LEADERSHIP MANAGEMENT COMMAND Challenge: Change Objective: Shared view of Operational Design Challenge: Uncertainty Objective: Operational Success Challenge: Complexity Objective: Sound processes and risk reduction. Economic, efficient use of resources.

11. Copyright© Roger Lane Consulting Ltd 2007 Mission Command “ The very essence of mission command is to give clear direction on what is to be done, allocate the resources and delegate authority to commanders to achieve the objectives.”

12. Copyright© Roger Lane Consulting Ltd 2007 Team work and Partnership - Stages in Team Development PERFORMANCE (-) (+) FORMINGSTORMINGNORMINGPERFORMINGDISBANDING TIME COMPETENCE COMMITMENT

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14. Conclusion © TMSDI Development International 2004 Empowerment is a key element of leadership It is not about “giving” power – but creating the environment The price of empowerment is a share in risk and responsibility Nuances in multi-national operations Individuals and teams need different styles matched to their stage in development

15. Copyright© Roger Lane Consulting Ltd 2007 Chief of Air Staff Leadership Conference Leadership for Challenging Environments Roger Lane Consulting Ltd Leadership Development and Coaching “ Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” Henry Ford