John C. Maxwell once said, “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

As leaders transition to new roles, it is crucial for them to adapt quickly so they can “know the way” and “show the way to go.” Transitions can create challenges, whether that be learning a new role, adjusting to working with a new team, or becoming familiar with a new organization’s culture, strategy, priorities, and goals. 

We at WLH can help new leaders face these challenges in 4 key ways:

As you navigate your new role, please reach out to us for support—we share a Leadership Transition Toolkit with clients that can help you change and thrive in your new role and offer personalized experience and informed coaching through transition.

Henry Ford once said, "If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

As the workforce begins to transition back to in-person work, it is imperative for leaders to realign with their employees on organizational priorities, as well as working together through unprecedented challenges. As teams restart and reset their work, a best practice for leaders is to Jump Start their teams.

WLH brings nearly 30 years of change management and leadership agility experience. Schedule a call with us to personalize your Jump Start and discuss how our proven and adapted approaches have helped other organizations.

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” - Winston Churchill 

As professionals re-enter the workforce and are faced with an unprecedented pivot back to in-person work, we find ourselves in the midst of a major transition. Leaders are now tasked with implementing large-scale change by accommodating employees who have worked from home for over a year. However, large-scale change implementation efforts are hardly ever executed perfectly on the first try. Recalibrating one’s business strategy in the midst of change is often critical to successful transition. Recalibration is essential for three reasons: 

1. It increases the likelihood of making progress 

2. It allows for the pinpointing of milestones  

3. It strengthens agility skills

We at WLH have decades of experience and expertise in change implementation of all scales. If you would like to better understand how to recalibrate your plans or receive guidance that is tailored to your specific goals, challenges, and needs, ​please feel free to schedule an appointment with WLH today by visiting www.wlhconsulting.com.

“ If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” - African Proverb 

Employees often cycle through varying degrees of engagement while going through change. Here are four tips to help reengage employees to ensure higher degrees of engagement and successful change implementation:

1. Reemphasize the why behind the change

2. Anchor everyone around your company culture and values

3. Train or retrain on skills that are needed

4. Seek to understand how each of your employees is reacting to and transitioning through the change

Take a moment to watch today’s episode and find out how to set yourself, your team, and your organization up for success!

Are you looking to redefine the future direction of your organization or team? If so, here are four things to consider when you are defining the future direction. Tune in to the today's episode! #wlhconsulting #wlhlearning #changeandthrivepodcast 

https://wlhconsulting.com Leaders are you prepared to support your team as they re-enter the workplace? In today's podcast my guest Dr. Julianna Hynes and I share some insights to help you. Tune in to today's episode! #wlhconsulting #changeandthrivepodcast 

Senior leaders across every industry are facing many challenges. Leaders are now being required to focus more than ever on four main questions.

In this week’s podcast, I provide an example of how the Pharma industry has answered the questions of where and how they will work. I provide five tips a leader can follow to position themselves and their teams well to ensure they create the culture they need to support their efforts in reimagining their future.

Take a quick listen and find out how to set yourself, your team, and your organization up for success!

Everything we know about healthcare and the way it is delivered has changed forever, forcing organizations and leaders to re-evaluate their barriers to empathetic leadership. As urgency from the pandemic shifts and businesses return to the “new normal,” the need for empathetic leadership is critical. In today's Change and Thrive podcast my guest, Dr. Loretta Cate and I share three (3) tips to help activate Empathetic Leadership within your organization and prepare your employees for re-entry. 

1. It is important that leaders sharpen their empathetic leadership skills and connect with their employees.

2. Create a network of support so leaders can continue to focus on leading with empathy.

3. Empathy will enable your leaders to thrive during change.

Cultivate empathy within your leaders as early as possible. Their involvement will greatly increase the likelihood of a successful re-entry! 

Listen to the full episode here: https://anchor.fm/wendy-l-heckelman-phd/episodes/Activating-Your-Leadership-Empathy-for-Re-entry-evrtqo

If you are interested in learning more about our blended solutions, WLH helps organizations, teams, and individuals think, plan, and execute with excellence. Schedule an Exploratory Call to learn more by visiting https://calendly.com/wlhconsulting/exploratorycall

Change defined the past year of living and working through the pandemic. Our daily lives were completely disrupted and organizations had to rethink and reshape work practices across all business operations. At this point, we are all experienced with change, particularly unexpected and widescale change. However, this is not enough to say that we are change-ready. It is no longer sufficient to respond to change—we must expect that the coming years will be characterized by change at every level and be prepared to change and thrive with the times.

Listen to this podcast to learn how our approach is key to ensuring that goals and skills cascade throughout the entire business. Broadly speaking, we start with the organization to ensure that it has developed a well-thought-out plan that accounts for risks and rewards. Next, we share the importance of leaders to guide their teams through ongoing change. Lastly, we work with individuals to ensure they can relate their role to these broad goals, as well as accurately assessing their own change-readiness. Individuals are the backbone of any successful organization and they must be open to an honest assessment of how they react to organizational change, as well as their willingness to commit to change goals.

WLH Consulting, Inc. has deep expertise in consulting on large-scale change initiatives and developing custom solutions to address organization-specific needs and challenges. Schedule an Exploratory Call today to learn how your organization can become change ready!

As business management expert Peter Drucker once said: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” An organization can carefully craft its strategic plan with great care and detail, but at the end of the day, its goals will not be accomplished if the company culture does not support the vision.