Below are a selection of articles on transformational leadership

Employee Engagement: How Changing Process Changes Behaviour For most organizations employee engagement is not just about the majority of employees but also about leadership teams.  This is the greatest challenge, because if you have a disengaged leadership team you have no chance of engaging employees.  The reasons why are clear…..Read more

Leadership Communication: 5 Tips To Engage Employees When we think of leadership communication most organizations focus on information tools. These include intranet sites, staff magazines, CEO blog, Town Hall meetings and so on. Whilst all these communication methods are to be applauded, they inform employees about what is going on. To truly engage employees in the process of change, for instance, a merger or acquisition, a re-organization, financial results or corporate social responsibility, leadership communication methods need to be designed to actively engage employees. … Read more

Leadership Effectiveness: 5 Ways To Measure The Impact On Business Outcomes If you are involved in a leadership role then you already know that one of the most important aspects of how successful you are as a leader today is measurement of your effectiveness on business outcomes. But so much of that measurement is focused on the amount of engagement with teams rather than the quality of that engagement and the link to business outcomes…. Read more

Transformational Leadership: 3 Ways To Create Transformation In Organizations There are two distinct ways transformational leadership can engage employees; one is to inform employees about what is happening in an organization, the other is to engage employees in the process of change. In this article we are going to highlight 3 case studies that demonstrate clearly the different techniques and approaches to ensure that your transformational leadership strategies bring about transformation in your organization…. Read more

Why are Senior Managers the Blockers to Employee Engagement.. If there is one issue that is constantly raised by clients and workshop attendees it is what to do about senior managers that continue to block attempts to engage with employees in your organization. There are many steps you can take to ensure that management understand the value of employee engagement strategies and why they should be supported. Very few managers have formal training in communicating with their employees and running team meetings, maybe somewhere along the way they were taught how to communicate one on one, but to a large team, particularly communicating complex messages about change it is unlikely. Read more

Change Management and Leadership Style… Leadership style during change are so important, you might tell people what is happening, but will it change their attitude and therefore change their behaviour? In my experience which is across many sectors, industries, professional roles and all types of change programs I have to say no. And this is the problem, when a CEO and senior executive team think “change” will happen because they have hired someone to communicate the changes taking place and then when there is no impact on the business or the outcomes they were looking for they are disappointed. Read more

The Value of Employee Engagement Surveys as Part of a Change Management Strategy….One of the things that continues to surprise me is that when times are bad organizations still spend money on employee engagement surveys. A general look around the office or factory and tea room discussions would make it obvious to all that wanted to see it that employees are not so much engaged as they are worried about their jobs. This leads us to two major issues to consider during tough times, the first is how we inspire confidence and innovation in an organization that appears to be in freeze mode. The second is what you should measure as an indicator of employee engagement. Read more

Why Managers and Supervisors ARE NOT the Best Communicators During Times of Change…. Actually when you have an entire organization paralysed with fear, when there are budget cuts all around, negative media speculation, no one is secure. And the only person who really knows what is being planned is the CEO. Is it any wonder, when you give a script for managers and supervisors to communicate to staff, their teams ask what’s going to happen with our jobs, and the manager or supervisor in the spirit of trust and honesty says, “I don’t know, I don’t even know what is going happen to me.” So this is why you need to take a different approach to face to face communication during these times. Read more

Leadership and Team Dynamics -How To Cascade Messages via Managers To Teams….One of the common mistakes people make when designing a change program is assuming that if a person is a team leader, supervisor or senior manager they should naturally know how to communicate face to face with their teams. However communication skills are rarely one of the key competencies that is taught or measured by organizations. There is however a very easy way to ensure that there is structure and content that make it very easy for managers at all levels to follow. Read more

Leadership Communication and How To Engage Employees With Technology Based Change…. When you think about the millions of dollars organizations spend each year on IT programs of work, wouldn’t it be prudent knowing that employees actually understand and most importantly embrace the reason behind the changes? There is one way of ensuring that employees and their managers have got the message and truly understand the reasons for the new system implementation. And that is the means by which you communicate change. Read more

Transformational Leadership and Innovation…. Smart companies during this economic downturn are using this time to engage employees in coming up with innovative ideas to set them apart from competitors when times turn good again. One of the most effective ways to be innovative is to look at the quality of service – the customer experience. And for transformational leaders this offers the opportunity to directly engage employees in change. Read more