Transformation & Culture Change: Transformation & Leadership in Action

The cyclical nature of transformation

What if the?transformation?of your business was evolutionary, flexible and agile to the changing economic, political and socio-cultural environment? What would that do for your business in both the short and the long run??

We talked in yesterday’s article (https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/transformation-culture-change-humanizing-our-barbara-mutedzi-/), about how any change stems from values: When we embody our values through practice, we create a unique ever-evolving and maturing culture that lends to transformation and leadership on the go. Our interconnected nature, makes it all possible. CONSCIOUS LEADERSHIP is a good place to start.

Conscious leadership

Conscious leadership is leadership that comes from a deep space of self-awareness. SELF-AWARENESS which is cultivated from continued deep inner work, self-exploration and personal development. The kind of leadership that understands that though each of us are on a different path to achieving our PURPOSE; we can collectively help each other along the way.?

The journey into deep self-awareness is one of the first and important steps to higher levels of not only EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE - but emotional agility. The more we as leaders take the journey to continued self-knowledge, the more we appreciate the process, and therefore allow the space, the environment and support for those we lead to also go through the process.?

The more we positively engage our minds and brains for higher performance, the more positive impact we have on others. And together with a common goal, the more people we influence along the way.

Self and collective awareness

We have to create a strong sense of self awareness that increases emotional intelligence across our businesses, communities and nations; and from that, practice these newly acquired characteristics so that we are agile and flexible to any internal or external circumstances, now or in the future.?

The deliberate act of practicing what we know, and adjusting as we go along within our different socio-cultural environments. is EMOTIONAL AGILITY. The BIGGEST advantage with this, is that you create SELF-ORGANIZING TEAMS, communities and nations, in context and all aligned toward a common goal.?

"By singleness of purpose, by steadfastness of conduct, by tenacity and endurance, such as we have so far displayed, by these, and only by these, can we discharge our duty to the future of the world and to the destiny of man."?Winston Churchill: Onwards to Victory The Fourth Volume of War Speeches.

Leadership starts with you

Leadership coaching sessions that EMBODY LEADERSHIP IN ACTION and which use the TRANFORMATIONAL STRATEGY, (i.e. the common goal guided by an overall purpose, vision, mission and values, together with daily experiential and related activities), as examples and raw materials to explore, unpack, rework and grow with, lend to sustained change.?

I am currently supporting transformation teams in developing a strong growth mindset, by providing them with tools, questions and knowledge that are helping them grow through the journey of continued self-awareness. With this they step confidently into their individual and collective purpose. Their leadership skills increase. They lean more into transformational as opposed to transactional leaders. They work together toward their common goal. They work to provide conducive environments for their teams to flourish and fully use their unique skillsets. Within all this, I advise on the research, constantly refer to the strategy as a common goal and assess the implementation plan on the go.

Brainstorming questions for your team

Here are some questions for you and your transformation teams to brainstorm on:?

1. What if we were building our businesses, communities and nations for generations to come? Decide how many generations.?How would our transformation journey look like?
2. How will our current decisions and corresponding actions look like??
3. Do we have a transformation and culture change process that filters down, up and across? One that involves every single person across our organization/s??
4. With all this, do we have an implementation plan that is matched with resources we currently have so that soon as we leave the strategy room, it’s all go?
5. Should we already be in the process of a transformation and culture change, how would we rate our current decisions and progress, when we put in the equation of building our businesses, communities and nations for generations?

The opportunity

If you really think about it, you are already influencing future generations. The way your staff experience working for and with you; and in turn, the way your customers experience your service or product through your staff; all affects all other areas of everyone’s lives.?

Their children (yours, your staff and customers’ children) are watching, expressing and embodying these experiences through you, your products and services. The opportunity therefore, is to re-think current and future transformation processes.

It starts with you, the way you lead, your levels of awareness, emotional intelligence and agility; the tools you use, the processes, systems and procedures you rely on, and how you treat your staff.?

The Japanese hire for life

Did you know that the Japanese hire for life? What would your workplace energy be like, if this were your focus? I will leave you today, with the quotes below from Peter F Drucker's book, The Effective Executive:

A superior owes it to his organization to make the strengthen of every one of his subordinates as it can be. But even more does he owe to the human beings over whom he exercises authority to help them get the most out of whatever strength they may have...

?Organizations must serve the individual to achieve through his strengths and regardless of his limitations and weaknesses...

In every area of effectiveness with an organization, one feeds the opportunities and starves the problem. Nowhere is this more important than in respect to people.?The effective executive looks upon people including himself as an opportunity.?He knows that only strength produces results. Weaknesses produces headaches – and the absence of weakness produces nothing.?

With kind regards. Barbara Mutedzi. Conscious Leadership Coaching: Helping you sharpen your leadership skills for higher performance, impact and profit on purpose.

Do you need a coach to work, support you and your transformation and culture change team? The work I do with organizations, including the application form for us to work together is found HERE .