1. Why is CRAFT Leadership so relevant today?
The technology-driven VUCA world creates too much internal and external noise with enormous information overload. Everything changes very quickly. Endless disruptions make focus harder and harder. Globalisation and technological advancement opened up our world, generating many opportunities for businesses and people. We live in an age of busyness where overwork, overtime, and extra miles are applauded. We talk a lot about working smarter than harder; nevertheless, the latter is incentivised mostly. We are also heavily action-biased. We are in a constant doing mode. And if we add speed to it, we are in a constant rushing mode. Short-termism and impatience are the king and queen of today’s business environment. We want everything right now, in this very instant. Customers want a full customer experience within a minute. We want answers to our emails straight away when we send them off. We face crisis after crisis today; therefore, leaders need to train themselves to be able to constantly ride the waves of the stormy ocean and prepare themselves to handle the uncertainty and unpredictability of today’s world.
2. What is CRAFT Leadership?
CRAFT Leadership gives you a solid ground to build on. Even in the broad sense, there is not much by way of stability around us. You need a quality surfboard to ride those waves. This is what the 5 CRAFT Leadership qualities are designed for. CRAFT Leadership gives you strong inner stability and future-proofness. CRAFT is an acronym consisting of 5 leadership qualities: Creativity-Resilience-Agility-Focus-Trust, but the word itself has multiple meanings and is full of playfulness. For example, one of the meanings is a ship. Leaders are captains of different sizes and types of ships in different conditions.
The motto of CRAFT Leadership:
SHARPEN the REAL LEADER in you by mobilising the modern CRAFT leadership qualities for the future.
Another meaning of craft is profession and vocation. Leadership is an ever-changing and evolving craft (CRAFT).
A leadership journey from apprenticeship to mastery is a journey with milestones that has no end to it and no shortcuts.
3. Why is High-Quality Leadership getting increasingly important in today’s world?
Knowledge, skills, attitude and competency development are important, but the real difference when it comes to high-quality leadership is the impact you have as a leader. What you say or don’t say, what you do or don’t do, and what impact they have on the results, your people, the organisation, and your key stakeholders.
Also, some studies say: „When looking at financial performance, organisations with the highest quality leaders were 13 times more likely to outperform their industry competitors. (Tanner 2018) These organisations also had higher employee retention and engagement rates up to three times that of their competitors.„ (Morgan, 2020)
4. Where does the whole CRAFT Leadership journey start?
CRAFT Leadership is an integrated model.
CRAFT Leadership (Kalamár, 2022)
It is sometimes difficult to separate each quality in practice as they may appear together and influence one another. And everything starts with yourself as the REAL LEADER.
5. When should you start your own CRAFT Leadership journey?
You are on a journey right now, whether you are aware of it or not, but to become more grounded, remain authentic despite all the derailments on the road and also become future-proof at the same time, you can start the CRAFT leadership journey any time. It would be best if you began as soon as possible as the world is spinning faster and faster; you need to sharpen yourself in the 5 modern leadership qualities of CRAFT Leadership.
- What is your craft (CRAFT)?
- What makes you a unique and powerful leader?
- Where are you strong in the 5 CRAFT Leadership qualities?
- Where do you need to sharpen yourself further?
To read more about CRAFT Leadership, you can purchase the book in Hungary: CRAFT Leadership on PABOOKS, and from abroad you can buy the book: CRAFT Leadership on Amazon.
You can also learn more about the CRAFT Leadership solutions, which help you transfer the knowledge of the book into practice: https://beatakalamar.com/craft-leadership-offers/.
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