Research shows that most efforts to fundamentally change the trajectory of an organization fail. Regardless of the size of your business or industry, transformation is vital for you to remain relevant in the marketplace.

Businesses must make fundamental changes to their operations so they can deliver better value to customers. It is also about organizational cultural change. Companies need to challenge the status quo from within and experiment to find what works for their organization. Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder said "In today’s era of volatility, there is no other way but to re-invent. The only sustainable advantage you can have over others is agility, that’s it."

Transforming the business or organization can mean replacing old business practices with ones that embrace a different way of thinking, growth mindset, challenging the status quo, to unlock the full potential of leaders and the business. In short, Transformation capability and readiness is becoming a core business imperative.

In this episode I present some ideas regarding how to be successful in your business transformation program. Have a great week.

The business landscape is changing rapidly. From AI and automation to big data and digital disruption, there are so many disrupters impacting business. In less than a decade, workplaces may look very different. With that in mind, we can expect leadership to shift dramatically too. So, with the landscape for businesses changing so rapidly, what can we expect the future leaders to look like? Furthermore, what can leaders do now to set up future leaders for success?

The business world is arguably on the cusp of the greatest period of transformation since the First Industrial Revolution in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Global business is facing a wave of disruptive influences that look set to spark the Fourth Industrial Revolution. What leadership skills do we need within the dynamic marketplace to thrive, and stay competitive in the war for talent and customers?

To be successful now and in the future, leaders need to pivot, learn new skills to be effective in a continuously changing and complex world. In this podcast I share nuggets and amplify skills that leaders need to solve complex problems in a world of change, disruption, complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty. Have a fantastic week.

A Global Crisis Survey, conducted by PwC in 2021 involving 2,814 business leaders, 70% responded that the crisis had a major negative impact on their businesses. On the other hand, only 20% saw a positive impact on their organization. Effective management and crisis leadership were some of the potential ways in which organizations showed resilience to the looming crisis.

The real test of leadership does not occur when everything is sailing smoothly. Rather, leadership is oftentimes tested during a crisis. The way you behave and act during a crisis will establish your credentials as a good leader or a poor one.

To lead through crisis requires a different mindset. When leading through a crisis, most leaders are forced to think and behave in ways that feel unfamiliar. Whether it’s a technological, financial, natural, or health crisis — at work or in the community — crises demand that leaders take an emergency response plan and adapt it as new evidence as more information is received. A crisis can exert a high impact on human needs, emotions, and behaviors,” says Klann. “We may not be conscious of this, but our behaviors send messages to others about our own underlying needs and emotions.”

Crises don’t just test our tenacity, our resolve, how smart we are but they also test our character, too. You cannot control the crisis, but you can control how you respond to it.

Come along with me as we unpack nuggets on how to lead in crisis. Have a fantastic week.

To successfully influence change throughout your organization, you must create an environment that promotes change. You create the readiness for change by removing all the roadblocks that inhibit successful change.

Now I have a confession to make. I have an addiction that I have been trying to shake off for years. I have gone for therapy several times and it has not worked. I am still trying to get over the addiction and hope that one of these days I will succeed. I am addicted to helping organizations, leaders, professionals, and individuals embrace, explore, exploit, and navigate change successfully. This addiction has so much impacted me to the point that I talk about change and transformation continuously; I give keynote address to organizations on change and transformation, I gossip change, dream about change and transformation, go to bed and wake up with change and transformation. If you know of a great therapist who can help me work on this addiction, kindly give me a shout.

We are all products of change. Where you are today as a leader, organization, team, has been influenced by the changes you embraced and the changes you fought against. When we learn to be nimble, ride the waves of change, make change our ally, pivot and be flexible with change, we will be successful in the end. Don’t become obsolete, work the change so that change can work for you and your organization.

I have observed over the years that the environment for successful change is tainted by ineffective policies, practices, leadership behaviors, and tinted mindsets that cloud and muddy the waters for successful change. When we create an enabling environment for successful change, empower and equip our leaders and employees for change and create a psychologically safe space for genuine and authentic conversations we influence change positively.

The first step to influencing change is to identify what you want to change in the first place and preempt how people will react to the change. When people believe and understand how the change will impact their lives, how they have been engaged through the change process, their involvement in shaping the change, they are better prepared to support the change. Remember, those who help shape and plan the change will rarely battle the change!

Knowing how to influence change in your organization can help you take steps to improve your organizational productivity, performance, and culture. It’s important to remember that Change isn’t something you do to an organization, but with an organization. In this episode I share nuggets on how to influence change and get the results you want out of change. Have a fantastic week.

Leadership serves several functions crucial to the success of the organization. Effective leaders provide clarity of purpose, motivate, and guide the organization to realize its mission. Regardless of your position, understanding your role as a leader can help you contribute more meaningfully to the accomplishment of your company's or organizational objectives. Great leadership is about inspiring your team to deliver the result, creating the right conditions, and enabling environment for them to thrive, and facilitating your team to achieve amazing outcomes.

Jerome Taillard said, “Leadership listens, inspires, motivates, and gives a direction, a common goal to aspire to.”

Leadership habits are the building blocks of great leadership. These habits are reflected in how you show up as a leader, how you set the tone and temperature in your working environment, your ability to highlight goals, how you engage and communicate, how you conduct meetings or gathering of your direct reports and team, how you handle conflict and so on. I have often made the statement that a great leader is that person who leaves the work environment and work continues as if they are right there watching over what is happening or not happening. In this episode, I provide nuggets on leadership habits for results. Have a fantastic week.

Our dissatisfaction with the status quo drives us and gives us energy to be more, do more and give more. A lot of leaders have settled with the status quo and have spent years doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. Some of these leaders have convinced themselves that the organizational culture will not change and therefore they don’t do anything.

One of the major hinderances to leaders not fulfilling their potential is that they are not hungry enough to do all that they can do. There is a lot of leadership talent wastage in organizations primary because most of the leaders are comfortable with the status quo and afraid to make changes. When leaders are not hungry enough, they justify and make excuses for their inaction, they are convinced that they cannot do much about the situation and are not ready to rock the boat. Some are quiet because observing the status quo is a way to earn their promotion. Are you hungry enough for what you want? Are you hungry to take the necessary risk to question the status quo and cause others to be hungry to take the necessary action?

A few years ago, I was listening to a video clip by Les Brown, the great motivational and transformational speaker and he said, ‘You’ve got to be Hungry’. I was so inspired and energized by that clip that I have been hungry ever since in pursuit of the things I want to accomplish in my life. Those five words were a driver of the things I have done and continue to do to this very day. As a new emerging leader, are you hungry enough to put in the work, learn, grow, experiment, invest in yourself to thrive on your leadership journey? As a business owner, are you willing to put in the long hours, and grow your business? As a leader, are you willing to be authentic, develop and build your team into a high performance team? Whatever you want to accomplish or achieve, you’ve got to be hungry proverbially to achieve it come rain or shine. Be hungry for what you want to accomplish and go to work to achieve it. Have a fantastic week and be hungry enough to take action on your goals, dreams and mission.

Jason Richmond said “You already have a culture, even if you haven’t consciously developed it. Culture is also what happens when no one pays attention, and then you pay the price.” He continued “Sustaining culture change is particularly challenging because we ask people to alter deeply ingrained and sometimes unconscious behaviors and habits.”

I have read great strategies and business plans. As a consultant working with leadership teams and boards, I have reviewed, facilitated and co-created strategic plans and I have concluded that unless leaders create an environment for people to unleash their potential, creativity and innovation, leadership intentions and high-sounding verbiage does not mean anything.

When employees know that their voices will be heard, their opinions will be respected, and their efforts will be appreciated it sets in motion the foundation for organizational growth. It is employees who make things happen in the company. You cannot achieve results without people. You can have the best organization strategy and business plan, but without people making it happen, it will just be a strategy or plan. Growth is an essential ingredient to continued business success. While most businesses may achieve this growth organically, this can require considerable time and effort. Organizational culture has a significant role in igniting organizational growth. The stronger the culture, the higher the employee engagement. In this weeks Transformation4change podcast, I present nuggets on how to ignite organizational growth. Have a fantastic week.

Do you respect yourself and respect others? Leaders who use swear words, demean people, talk down the team, are egocentric, and disrespectful will not go very far. They may get away with it for a while but not for very long. Build trust and respect among your team, and there will be no challenge the team cannot solve. Trust is earned through hard work and actions, not simply good intentions.

A high level of trust creates a more positive employee experience and can also lead to a more productive workplace where people feel safe and respected. Building trust means that through your actions, you make people feel comfortable relying on you, feel confident in your abilities and your intentions and feel motivated to work with you. Being a trusted and respected leader can lead to amazing results. Trust is a very fickle thing though. It takes time to develop and earn trust, but it is very easy to lose or break it.

Trust is a precious gift, you cannot lead without it, grow a long-lasting relationship, keep your valuable customers, build your team, achieve results and be successful in the marketplace without trust.

When people trust you, they go beyond the call of duty to create amazing results and outcomes for your collective success. Allow these nuggets for building trust and respect to reframe your thinking and help you build trust and respect. Have a fantastic week.

The performance of your people and organization is contingent on the quality of your culture. Organizational culture facilitates the achievement of your

Organizational culture is the collection of beliefs, values and methods of interaction that create the environment of your organization. This culture encompasses the foundational values of a company or business. It also reflects your organization’s expectations and philosophy and the experiences of the employees and leaders within it.

Organizational culture includes your organization’s expectations, experiences, philosophy, as well as the values that guide employee behavior, and is

When your people are thrilled to come to work every day, give their very best, feel psychologically safe to contribute, then you are doing something right. I present a few nuggets on cultivating and nurturing your organization culture. Have a fantastic week.

Raise Your Standards (Part 2)

Raising your standards begins the process of changing the trajectory of your life, business results, relationships, family, organization, leadership journey, spiritual journey, and others. What is a standard? A standard is a model for excellence, a criterion, benchmark, touchstone, yardstick, specification, guideline, measure, or requirement. You can raise your standard for leading your team, improving your relationships, moving on the ladder of success, achievement, or career, you can raise your leadership standard, spiritual, health and wellness, business, or organization results.

 So, the question is how do you raise your standards?

·       It begins with self introspection – what area do you want to raise your standards in?

·       What are those beliefs aiding or nurturing these standards or lack thereof?

·       How do you break through these limiting beliefs so that you can be free to do what you want to do and get the results you want to achieve

When you raise your standards, you position yourself well in the market place, you thrill your customers, you elevate your leadership consciousness, you create and put in motion likeminded thinkers to gravitate towards you. Raising your standards is a precondition for living a successful life and running a successful business. Have a fantastic week.