The Emerging Leadership Challenge: The Evolution of Awareness in the Workplace
These are challenging times for leaders. In my book, ‘Evolve: Powerful Skills for the Next Evolution of Leadership’ an entire chapter is dedicated to raising the readers awareness of this issue.
The workplace has and continues to change dramatically. Over the past ten years, flatter organisational structures, flexible working practices and geographically dispersed teams (often spanning the globe) are now common place, each presenting a unique challenge to leaders charged with improving results and driving change. Yet there is another, hidden workplace dynamic that is far more threatening to organisational performance and therefore to leadership success.
Leadership can be summed in one word, influence.
The ability to unlock potential from talent and release it into organisational performance is the primary responsibility of leadership. Yet from two decades of experience of working with and studying leadership, we’ve found very few people in corporate leadership positions are suitably equipped to effectively influence others. Without question, this represents the most significant threat to the top and bottom line of organisations.
The hidden threat to organisational success is the shift in awareness of the workforce. There are very different expectations of careers, organisations and leaders in the workplace. Many leaders who have been recruiting talent over the past 5 years will not have failed to notice the difference in thinking and approach from members of ‘generation Y’, those born after circa 1981. These young men and woman are looking for far more than just a salary, car and the usual trimmings – they want development, opportunities to learn and grow, to develop the self-leadership qualities that will help them move toward what it is they aspire to be. To add to this challenge, certain aspects of ‘generation X’ have also become more aware.
If this kind of talent is exposed to poorly equipped leadership behaviour not only will it be detrimental to performance, talent will exit. It simply isn’t good enough anymore to simply just ‘pay them well’.
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As the industrial age became the information age, which itself is quickly evolving into the age of wisdom, qualitative leadership has become essential to organisational success. Leadership is truly the axis of influence in business, there is significant research on the subject of how the behaviour of people in authority impacts the top and bottom line of organisations. Sadly, a large proportion of corporations have poorly equipped managers in leadership positions, capable people lacking in the essential skills to influence and inspire a workforce with very different expectations.
In order to behave differently a leader must think differently, because leadership is a personality issue, not a positional one. This demands a very different approach to leadership development than the well-trod conventional methods of knowledge-based workshops, traditional corporate training methodologies and MBA courses that still remain the default methods utilised by many organisations.
We’ll pick up on that theme in next month….
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