Aboitiz leaders reaffirm commitment to leadership quality and development
Business guru Peter Drucker said, “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
The Aboitiz Group must be doing something right as 190 team leaders (TLs) across various Aboitiz business units convened last February 26 at the annual Aboitiz Leaders Conference (LeadCon) in Bonifacio Global City to underline leadership quality and actively harnessing leadership strengths.
With the theme “Leading A Culture That Performs,” Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc. (AEV) President and Chief Executive Officer Erramon “Montxu” I. Aboitiz and AEV Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Sabin M. Aboitiz led the discussion on the company’s distinctly unique system of values and beliefs that defines what is coined the “Aboitiz Way.”
“Our LeadCon once again brought Aboitiz leaders across the Group to learn, challenge and be challenged, collaborate and strengthen relationships, contribute ideas and experiences that will better enable us to embody our role as leaders and drive a culture that performs,” said Montxu.
Saikat Chatterjee, Director, Advisory Services-Asia at Gartner (formerly CEB), was the LeadCon’s keynote speaker with his talk entitled “Creating A Culture That Performs.”
“Organizations who are failing in their culture transformation journey believe that culture is HR’s initiative or something that only senior leaders in the organization can resolve,” he told the Aboitiz senior TLs gathered.
“In your case, you are the senior leader, you are the leadership, you are the management, and you have a huge role. You can impact in a big way —think about your processes, think about your organizational design, think about your projects. And you also have a huge role in helping employees to navigate through those tensions they experience and also to help them contextualize,” Chatterjee added.
Meanwhile, Tristan C. Aboitiz, Pilmico Senior Vice President & COO, Food Group-Domestic, provided insights on the Aboitiz Leadership Council, a seven-member team that represents the leadership of each of the Aboitiz business units. Its mandate is to recommend and champion initiatives that will deepen the collective leadership competence and effectiveness of the leaders in the Aboitiz Group.
“Leadership competence is the catalyst that brings to life purpose, brand, values, and culture in the organization. Leaders who have a deeper well of leadership competence tend to be more effective in driving positive change,” Tristan emphasized.
In closing the event, AEV Chief Human Resource Officer Txabi Aboitiz summed up an important action point that leaders need to constantly review moving forward.
“As leaders, we need to get everybody involved and get them to understand our culture and what it means to them individually. We should examine how our processes can tend to restrict our team members from behaving our culture and values,” he explained.
Aboitiz leaders undergo a number of executive leadership development programs designed to impart knowledge and sharpen their competencies in leading people, particularly in the six Aboitiz leadership dimensions: mentoring and developing, fostering teamwork, courageous authenticity, achieving results, sustainable growth, and integrity.
These Aboitiz leadership dimensions were further redefined with the help of The Leadership Circle™, a global leadership assessment and development firm founded and led by leadership guru Bob Anderson.
