Ironic, isn't it......that the time when you, a leader, need concepts like purpose, or core pillars of organisation differentiation like values or the defined culture the most...is also the time when those principles come under attack.
Why would that be? What's the alternative agenda?
That discord is the loudest signal you'll get that you need to double down on your inclusive development effort and accelerate your organisation development and engagement strategy.
Most of our leadership coaching discussions at the moment seem to involve three key concerns:
- leadership and management clashes across generations
- hiring and retention challenges
- resilience and sustaining performance (at all levels).
These are tough times. There are leadership crises everywhere you turn. So it's hardly surprising.
Scratch the surface and in many of these situations:
a) there's a lack of clarity about the organisation's true purpose and innate character, sending out weak, mixed and generic signals
b) they're looking for the wrong people in the right places
c) there's no golden thread between the organisation's strategy, goals and individual accountabilities
Every business has a story, a narrative that should be shared and owned. It needs to look back as well as forward and should act as a beacon for like minds and also attract those who can see the potential ahead and help the leaders get there.
Whatever the state of the recruitment market, retention and development of your champions is within your gift as leaders. You have agency.
Stop expecting external forces and the market to bring you the answers. Cultivate the capability within and start by reminding yourself and those that truly matter, why you're in business at all. What matters and what must happen next will suddenly become a lot more apparent.
If your organization has no defined purpose, look back and ask:
- “Where have we come from?”
- “How did we get here?”
- “What makes us unique?”
- “Where does our DNA open up opportunities we believe in?” https://lnkd.in/ejEK3-ZY
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Put Purpose at the Core of Your Strategy
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