With the novelty of the first isolation now feeling so yesterday, we are almost back to normal. We are busier than ever with back to back meetings (just on zoom now) and budget cuts. But is it really back to normal? The World Economic Forum predicts a massive mountain of change this year more than 10 X the past 10 years combined
One of the first questions we ask leaders when we start to work with them is what’s keeping you up a night? It’s the sort of question that elicits all sorts of interesting answers. But importantly it often points us to the heart of what needs to be addressed, something impacting their people or them personally.
Many of you, I’m sure are leading or being impacted by restructuring right now. The challenge in times like these, is that leaders often just want to rip the band aid off and get it over and done with quickly. I’m almost certain that most of you want to do it the right way however, when the structure part of the restructure is given the priority then impacts can be significant…
During a storm, like the one we are going through right now requires leading with a light touch on the controls. This may go against all of our intuition particularly in a storm where all you really want to do is grip tightly when things get rough.
People power is grassroots change, it’s driven by people, it can be organic and challenge the norm such as the extinction or me too movement. It’s often very powerful and deeply emotive. But what does it have to do with fueling organisational change?
Fires, climate change, floods, pandemics, the disruption we are seeing really is never-ending. I think we have all decided the ‘new normal’ means that with the ongoing disruption, our organisations need to be in crisis response mode the whole time.
