What is Behavioral Leadership?
Behavioral Leadership is a systematic approach to improving human performance through the science of behavior. For more than 40 years, ADI’s proprietary Behavioral Leadership implementation process (known by some as Performance Management or Precision Leadership®) has seamlessly combined an understanding of the science of behavior with the workplace application of its tools and methods.
Every organizational accomplishment depends on behavior. If organizations want people to do something different, then executives, managers, and supervisors must do something different. Behavioral Leadership is the catalyst that enables leaders to align their impact with their intentions so that their behavior and decision making drives business success. Behavioral Leadership is not a one-time management solution to a single problem at work. It is a precise management system that will lead to practical ways to optimize your business while engaging the workforce and creating a great place to work.
How does ADI implement Behavioral Leadership?
While Behavioral Leadership training is an integral component ADI’s Behavioral Leadership process, the full implementation of our process includes an upfront gap analysis (survey and assessment), remediation of system issues (systems optimization), pinpointing the desired results and behaviors (Behavioral Roadmapping), Behavioral Leadership training, and follow-up coaching to ensure skill transfer.
Based on the organization’s needs, the implementation of Behavioral Leadership includes all or some of these components:
- Leadership (Upward Feedback) or Site Culture Survey – Online survey to gather perceptions of the site’s culture and/or the impact of specific leaders on their direct reports.
- Site Culture Assessment – Interviews, focus groups, behavioral observation, and data/document review to identify strengths and improvement opportunities in the culture.
- Systems Optimization – Expert consulting to remove behavioral disconnects, build consistent use, and ensure that the systems produce the desired impact. This consulting support addresses any systems issues identified by the survey and assessment.
- Behavioral Roadmap Development – Working backwards from the desired lagging and leading results, the behavioral roadmap defines the essential frontline and leadership behaviors needed to achieve those desired business outcomes.
- Customized Behavioral Leadership Training – Leadership workshop to teach a scientific approach to understanding and motivating behavior. This gives leaders the knowledge and skills necessary to implement the current and later behavioral roadmaps while fostering engagement and productive working relationships.
- Follow-up Coaching – Positive accountability and skill refinement with leaders to address improvement opportunities from the survey and assessment, improve their impact on others, and ensure successful implementation of the roadmap.
What are the benefits of implementing Behavioral Leadership?
Behavioral Leadership implementation has a positive impact on leaders, the workforce, and the business.
- Establishes a consistent approach to managing human performance.
- Provides exemplary leadership development.
- Based on science, not fads.
- Clarifies expectations on how to produce results “in the right way.”
- Enables specific, helpful coaching that shapes behavior and builds productive habits.
- Accelerates gains by focusing positive reinforcement on essential behaviors tied to the desired results.
- Builds positive accountability, want-to behavior, trust, and engagement.
- Can be applied to any strategic initiative. Once leaders become proficient in the application of the Behavioral Leadership tools and approach, they can use subsequent behavioral roadmaps to focus later applications on quality, customer service, safety, productivity, efficiency, manufacturing turnarounds, lean or agile implementation, new software implementation, etc.
