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You need direction, alignment, and commitment (DAC) to make leadership happen in your group or organization. Learn more about our DAC framework and how leadership is a social process to foster more of it in your group or organization.
How do you define leadership?
You might be surprised to find that leadership isn’t actually all about individual leaders and their capabilities. Truly effective leadership happens in the interactions and exchanges among people with shared work.
Over 50+ years of researching leadership, we’ve discovered it’s a social process that enables individuals to collaborate and work toward results that they could never achieve working alone.
Our research has found that for effective leadership to happen, interactions and exchanges among people have to create 3 outcomes: Direction, Alignment, and Commitment. We call this set of outcomes the the Direction – Alignment – Commitment (DAC)™ framework.
But what exactly do we mean by these terms?
This framework for effective leadership allows individuals to collaborate productively and achieve organizational goals. To learn more and evaluate your team or organization’s levels of each element of DAC, check out our report on how Direction + Alignment + Commitment (DAC) = Leadership.
Give your leaders the skills to work together as a cohesive group. In this program, we’ll show leaders how to:
Start improving outcomes at your organization by equipping your team with these effective leadership skills. Explore delivery methods for our world-class content and pioneering research on the DAC framework for collective leadership.
You can use our proven content to deliver a workshop or internal training on effective leadership either online or in person, whichever you prefer:
Deliver targeted training to key leaders or small groups — leverage our content on the DAC framework to host a half-day leadership development workshop
Accelerate development across your entire organization with comprehensive access to this effective leadership training content and all our leadership topics and solutions
Or, we can incorporate it as part of a larger initiative for your organization:
Combine the DAC framework with other topic modules and interactive experiences into a customized learning journey for your leaders
Organizations who have partnered with us to educate their teams about the DAC framework so they better understand what effective leadership looks like consistently tell us the same thing: their experience with CCL made a significant impact on their culture — and their bottom line.
But don’t just take our word for it — take theirs.
“CCL’s Leadership Development Program helped me build up my vision and competency about leadership. Based on the models shared: DAC (Direction, Alignment, and Commitment), SBI (Situation, Behavior, and Impact) and other practices, I am able to find the most effective way to communicate with my staff and my manager. The training also helped me gain a better understanding on my organization’s health and the long-term development of employees.”
Alan Bai
Chief Representative, China
Institute of Management Accountants
“Future Generali Life partnered with CCL for Leadership Development of our C-suite in a unique and flagship program to discover ways of being simpler, smarter, faster. The tone was set through a detailed pre-work and assessment which set the context and expectations effectively towards Direction-Alignment-Commitment (DAC). The pre-work captured…the challenges faced by the leadership team well. The leadership team felt a sense of enthusiasm, made personal commitments, and had a higher level of understanding that interdependencies go a long way in establishing alignment within the teams.”
Ruchira Bhardwaja
Chief HR Officer
Future Generali India Life Insurance
Our experts are here to help. Let’s have a conversation about direction, alignment, and commitment at your organization and how proven development based our world-famous DAC framework for effective leadership could help grow your leaders.
You need direction, alignment, and commitment (DAC) to make leadership happen in your group or organization. Learn more about our DAC framework and how leadership is a social process to foster more of it in your group or organization.
This introduction to our leadership philosophy explains how direction, alignment, and commitment (the elements of our DAC framework) are key in how leadership works, connecting exponential potential with collective progress.
We’ve found that organizational cultures can be defined in 3 basic ways. Which one describes how your organization functions, and what can you do about it?
Package our pioneering research-based content on the DAC framework with other proven leadership development topics and solutions for a customized, scalable solution perfect for your organization’s unique needs, context, and culture. Related topics include:
