Leadership and Change: Build These Three Muscles
Tanmay Vora
There is no real leadership without change.
If you are simply “sustaining” what already exists, you are not a leader because real leadership is about change – moving people, processes, outcomes and culture to a better place.
In an organizational context, there is no change without some leadership.
Without any leadership, things still change but often, in a southwards direction. Any change in a positive direction means channeling collective energy of people, overcoming resistance, building consensus and involving others – none of which is possible without some leadership.
As Esther Derby so rightly says in “6 Rules of Change”,
Leaders don’t drive, install or evangelize change. They NURTURE it.
Explicit details of change (the gross part) is never as difficult as the soft side it it (the subtle) – how leaders enable and empower others during the change process.
In this post at Rebels at Work blog, Lois Kelly emphasizes on three change muscles that leaders need in order to nurture change – Appreciation, Understanding of character strengths and Creating Psychologically safe environment.
Rebels at Work is an excellent movement and I strongly recommend that you read the post “Build these three change muscles”. Meanwhile, here are my visual notes when I read the article.
Related Sketchnotes/Posts at QAspire.com