How does one create a better changing environment?
Through years of experience, I have developed the uncanny ability to anticipate organizational change. I call it “The handwriting on the wall”.
It all sounds the same to the average person or employee. It sounds like “we need to do more with less”, but more of what...with less of what?
As a leader as well as a small business owner, I am coming from a place of teaching and coaching as well as understanding how important it is to change for growth.
It is not always the changes that are difficult for employees to handle. It is often the delivery from leaders in the “Ivory Tower” that is less than optimal for breeding creative change management spaces where employees are engaged and contributing to the process to help with easier adoption.
Speaking from the employee perspective, people want to feel heard, be asked and provide feedback that contributes to changes to a very important part of daily life….their ability to earn a living and provide for themselves and their families.
Being in a position of trusted advisor for your workforce allows an employer to maintain the most important assets to the company, the people who do all the work. Without the people, how could we the employers, leaders and coaches also exist? Can we learn to create more opportunities to improve the products we sell or the services we provide to the consumer? We should consider employee feedback to be more valuable since they are also consumers in the market place.