For so long we have been stacking legislation upon legislation in a vain attempt to alter negative outcomes and change peoples behaviour.
This has spectacularly failed and we see a rise in poor well being, low engagement, unkind leadership, mediocre productivity and a rise in
pyscho-social harm.
The most impactful actions you can take to shift these stats is to become lovers of people and understand what people need to perform at
their best and what prevents that..and that will only ever come though deepening relationships and the intentional curiosity and recognition
of what individual team members need to thrive and excel. The big shift in leadership for his season is a deeper handle on human psychology.
Latent skills and high functioning contributions lay hidden under the ridiculousness of regulation and legislation. Regulations do not
change belief systems. We apply punitive measures to chastise error and failure when what we need to do is to be moving in closer and closer
to understand the why events happen and foster the encouragement of solution discovery as a standard practice. Anytime you have punitive
action, you bury your opportunity to uncover truth and the pathway to better. We are suffering from the gap between relationship and knowing
deep functional data.
People talk much about "Courageous Conversations" (which I personally believe are nonsense - feel free to ask me why) however, what is
really courageous is for a leader to first determine that people don't come to work to wreck organisations, and secondly, that real courage
is to be able to look at ones own leadership and discover where systems and processes have facilitated error and systematic failures.
Remember, YOU have what you lead and YOU have what you tolerate. We are where we have been led.
A courageous conversation had with yourself makes discovery possible and change towards excellence imminent.
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