Just following on from the previous post…..

People want to be part of something that matters, that what they do is meaningful and has some significance and they want to know what contribution they are making too! That also includes you. This is about getting your team to respond rather than to react to problems. There is a difference.

If the MD isn’t good at change and his managers are not good at leading, no wonder employees try and stop it from happening and no wonder they get demoralised.

The first realisation is that people now only want to work on stuff they believe in, understand and find meaningful. In fact that was always the case its just we didn’t have enough passionate leaders to create it. Now we don’t have any choice. These kind of people want to know how it benefits them as well as the business. How it stimulates change, how creative it is and whether it embraces a ‘better way.’ The job of the leader is to engage their people on a journey, on a plan, on a route that they are fully motivated towards. In the future, it will be these things that will bring about a competitive advantage not products!

Leaders are great connectors, they can understand people quickly and they understand motivation. They have the ability to inspire people. They are not process orientated but lead from the front, galvanising support, creating ideas that drive the people in the business towards its goal. They are not interested in authority and can’t abide ego centric people.