In times of turbulence and complexity, leaders face not easy decisions, which not only worry and affect the Work Climate, but the work of their employees.
Given this choice, what should be done? Daily practices indicate that adjusting the workforce is the common measure, although in the long run the company bleeds.
Adjust or change? That is the most frequently asked question for many business leaders. It is with leadership that this dilemma is resolved.
The country's growth indicators, the changing environment and the complexity of the markets, have affected many companies.
Increasingly, many executives and business leaders express their concerns and needs in this regard.
They are catalysts for the problems they face on a daily basis in terms of low productivity, slowness to solve and decide on the line, difficulty in convincing the client that they are a good option for them and other things like that.
They have adopted the policy of dismissing their collaborators when the expected results are not reached in their budgets and the business plan for which they have been prepared is jeopardized. They have apparently decided to RENEW, doing more with less.
However, I have witnessed that not always taking steps to form a new structure is synonymous with success. " When a company restructures, it also bleeds to death." With these measures, much of the commitment of those who stay is also gone, because they are left with the FEAR of being eliminated from the main table if the results are not achieved, at the same time their creativity and passion for work are gone, knowing only one more number for the company, their loyalty and loyalty to the institutional principles of the company go away and with it goes their passion for work.
There are many Executives and Managers in the world that make this practice an everyday process. It seems that it is easier to adjust than to establish processes of change innovators that allow them to remain flexible in the face of the onslaught of the markets and the changing needs of customers. They remain attached to the successes of the past as if they were the route that guarantees them victory for life.
I still believe that "THE FAILURE IS ALWAYS WAITING FOR ALL THOSE WHO KEEP SOME OF THE SUCCESSES OF YESTERDAY," and I think that this is exactly where a new Leadership and a new way of doing things must emerge. This is where organizations must be transformed through different internal practices that allow them to give their customers better products and services than their competitors.
"We must adopt a different mental model that allows us to differentiate ourselves from our competitors from within."
" Playing too cautiously can be dangerous." These are not times to go slowly, as the needs of our customers are constantly changing and the level of competition is even higher. They are times of ACTION, they are times of passion for a job well done, they are times of better management of our leadership.
The leaders today have to make the decision: Either they continue to play defense, or they are ready to win!
Conventional dictates recommendations such as "do not make waves" "play it safe", etc… companies under this style of management are focused on reducing losses rather than testing their full potential.
Thus, while some are oriented towards "caring for the livestock", others are taking the lead thinking about differentiating from within to give the best of themselves to their markets and their customers.
What is the difference? The difference is that while some make the decision to go through the back door, to escape the CRISIS, others open the doors that they have not experienced to seek improvement and renewal processes that allow them to advance and face the challenges that change it means. There is the difference! But " the changes in the end do not arise alone, they come from the leaders who create them and that is where you must learn to play." Make the decision to strengthen your level of leadership throughout the company, not only polishing the technical aspects of the job, which although it is also essential, it is more to obtain the maximum potential from all your followers.
People look for leaders who know and are motivated to put forth their personal qualities to achieve things they had not even thought of.
A different spirit and enthusiasm is required throughout the organization. A display of superior talent is required to differentiate yourself from others, with solid arguments in your internal practices. This is how you get to the TOP.
It is important, then, to deploy a different sharpness within your business where the level of thought indicates to everyone that "the good is never good enough" because that only places it with the common of its competitors. Winning requires doing extraordinary and different things from others and that can only be achieved with leadership.
The difference with your competitors is only achieved through the people, it is only achieved through the leaders. So get ready to energize all your collaborators and in that sense inspire change. This is how the path to continuous improvement begins!
Make your training budget for the training of leaders, be sure to consider this line within your Master Training Plan, because only if you have these can you ensure better possibilities in the attempt to achieve compliance with your Business Plan. This is how the DIFFERENTIATION processes begin in the market and against its competitors.
Which path to choose? You will have to decide whether to face the changes, with the risks and effort involved, or miss the opportunity to take the lead! Just 6 months after the end of the year, how is your financial and market situation? Are you reaching the budgeted volumes? If not, I recommend that you review not only the performance of your collaborators, but also that of yourself regarding your leadership management.
Your level of thinking is decisive to shake off past successes and stop being so cautious. Today is the time to go forward and tackle the problems of being different. I know that changes involve thinking differently and acting differently, but it is what ultimately makes us go from an ordinary status to a different or extraordinary status.
Allow yourself to unleash your potential. Train your collaborators to later test their management skills and abilities. Give them the opportunity to grow as your business grows and grows. Give them the chance to make your business the highest perceived value in the market, because it is the service of your collaborators that will make your clients think differently from your business or company.
Today are times of ACTION, they are times that do not allow distractions from the environment, they are times of High Disposition more than false managerial positions or inoperative styles. In summary; They are times of Leaders.
Only those who venture to try different, achieve a much higher perceived market value than their competitors. This is the new Culture of the Organization.
It is important to determine to get out of the usual script to improvise and design new practices and ways of doing things. For this, you have to constantly prepare, that is, PREPARE TO CREATE THE CHANGES that give your company a competitive position in the markets where it participates.
Incessant renovation and oriented to obtain the maximum of its collaborators. Remember that your job is to inspire others to achieve your goals and objectives, so get involved with them in designing a new way of looking at things and consequently in designing a new company.
Lean on experts, get advice, be guided, ask and change for the good of your company. Success!.
Final thoughts: “Allow yourself to savor the effects of change, giving your employees the opportunity to design a new business model.
Embrace the potential of your people through renewed leadership management.
Get out of your comfort state and assume that the possibility of being different lies in people who have enthusiastically decided to abandon the past. ”
