Touchpoint Leadership: Creating Collaborative Energy Across Teams and Organizations

224 Pages·2013·3.18 MB·English

by  Hilary Lines

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Praise for
TouchpoinT Leadership
“Leadership does not reside in leaders but in the relationships that
leaders and followers create together to achieve a collective endeavour.
Hilary Lines and Jacqui Scholes-Rhodes, two highly experienced
leadership coaches, elucidate and illustrate with great insight what
happens in the relationship at these points of meeting. They show how
leaders can relate more effectively and what development and coaching
can help them in this important task.”
Peter Hawkins, author, Professor of Leadership at Henley Business
school and emeritus Chairman of Bath Consultancy Group
“Organizations function, for better or worse, through the interaction of
the people who work there. In this book the authors focus on those
touchpoints, and through their experience and insight show us that
awareness of our own humanity is the vital spark which brings leadership
to life.”
Bill Knight oBe, former senior Partner at simmons & simmons,
Deputy Chairman of Council at Lloyd’s of London and
chairman of the financial reporting review Panel
“Leaders… want to crack the code on how to have their teams fully
engaged. The concepts and models in Touchpoint Leadership provide a
fresh approach that will help leaders make sense of the world in which
they operate and offer some different ideas on how they might proceed.”
Gary Kildare, Global Hr officer at iBM Technology solutions
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Touchpoint
Leadership
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For our children and grandchildren
and with gratitude to our parents who instilled
in us the value of relationships and curiosity
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Touchpoint
Leadership
Creating
collaborative
energy across
teams and
organizations
Hilary Lines and
Jacqui Scholes-Rhodes
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ISBN 978 0 7494 6578 0
E-ISBN 978 0 7494 6579 7
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lines, Hilary.
Touch point leadership : creating collaborative energy across teams and organizations / Hilary
Lines, Jacqueline Scholes-Rhodes.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-7494-6578-0 – ISBN 978-0-7494-6579-7 (ebook) 1. Leadership. 2. Interpersonal
relations. 3. Teams in the workplace. I. Scholes-Rhodes, Jacqueline. II. Title.
HD57.7.L557 2013
658.4’092–dc23
2012039956
Typeset by Graphicraft Limited, Hong Kong
Printed and bound in India by Replika Press Pvt Ltd
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ConTenTs
Our ethical code ix
Acknowledgements xi
introduction 1
The Touchpoint Leadership proposition 2
The benefits of Touchpoint Leadership 4
About this book 6
01 The case for Touchpoint Leadership 9
The leadership challenge – and the paradoxes 9
Seeing leadership through a new lens: the Touchpoint
Leadership proposition 12
The three domains of Touchpoint Leadership 17
02 Priming the touchpoint to become relational 47
Being fully present at the touchpoint 49
Personal growth through interaction at the touchpoint 65
Developing a relational perspective 75
Looking forward 82
03 Pivotal relationships – creating value within
the organization 85
Connecting and reinforcing difference 87
Igniting connective energy at the touchpoint 103
Holding the relational space 109
Looking forward 122
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Contents
Contents vii
Our ethical code ix
04 Transforming partnership through the touchpoint 125 Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
The Touchpoint Leadership proposition 2
Introduction 125 The benefits of Touchpoint Leadership 4
About this book 6
The professional partnership ‘brand in action’ 126 01 The case for Touchpoint Leadership 9
The leadership challenge – and the paradoxes 9
Building a coherent client relationship through connecting
Seeing leadership through a new lens: the Touchpoint Leadership proposition 12
The three domains of Touchpoint Leadership 17
internal touchpoints 142
02 Priming the touchpoint to become relational 47
Footnote: Partnering for client service across the Being fully present at the touchpoint 49
Personal growth through interaction at the touchpoint 65
business 154 Developing a relational perspective 75
Looking forward 82
Summary 156 03 Pivotal relationships – creating value within the organization 85
Connecting and reinforcing difference 87
Igniting connective energy at the touchpoint 103
Holding the relational space 109
05 Building and sustaining the collaborative Looking forward 122
04 Transforming partnership through the touchpoint 125
enterprise 159 Introduction 125
The professional partnership ‘brand in action’ 126
Building a coherent client relationship through connecting internal touchpoints 142
Introduction 159
Footnote: Partnering for client service across the business 154
Building connective leadership – vertically and Summary 156
05 Building and sustaining the collaborative enterprise 159
horizontally 161 Introduction 159
Building connective leadership – vertically and horizontally 161
Catalysing connective learning 174 Catalysing connective learning 174
Trusting to act responsibly and freely 187
Trusting to act responsibly and freely 187 Conclusion 189
06 Developing touchpoint mastery 192
Conclusion 189 Introduction 192
A framework for learning 195
The Touchpoint Leadership developmental framework 197
Summary 206
06 Developing touchpoint mastery 192 Index 207
Introduction 192
A framework for learning 195
The Touchpoint Leadership developmental framework 197
Summary 206
Index 207
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our eTHiCaL C oDe
in writing this book we have aimed to illustrate the concept of
Touchpoint Leadership in action, drawing on our work with
leaders from a wide range of organizations and from across a diverse
selection of sectors.
Our commitment to the confidentiality of our clients and research
respondents is fundamental to our work and has been our first
priority in selecting and shaping the examples to include in the book.
To protect this confidentiality we have therefore developed stories
in which a number of facts have been changed, and in some cases
we have amalgamated more than one story, drawing out the generic
learning pertinent to all touchpoint leaders rather than the specific
insights experienced by the individual client. In the context of illus-
trating an aspect of Touchpoint Leadership, however, the meaning
has been fully preserved.
In addition, we have contacted all those leaders whose stories have
been adapted in this way and we have sought, and received, their
express permission to incorporate the text into our book.
Hilary Lines
Jacqui Scholes-Rhodes
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