The importance of agility and being agile and flexible in a fast moving world is explored in this episode of Impactful the Podcast, especially with the threat of potential and UK-wide local lockdowns.
The Impactful duo look at the problems with a rigid working practices and what we can learn from the recent national lockdown. Julia and Andrew look at structure relating it to a pendulum swinging between structure and no structure and what that shows us in terms of fluidity, freedom and security. They bring in their personal experiences to highlight how we can adapt to build momentum.
Julia discusses a piece of research that Accenture did on leadership imperatives for an agile business and its three pillars here, of what is called demystifying leadership and what we can learn from high performance leaders. Now we’re all coming back to work and everyone’s got very different agendas about how they want to return it comes down to different levels of flexibility and agility to respond to what’s going on and which is very, very different.
Can businesses be agile and flexible? Andrew talks about the importance of communication especially internally and the two then chat about employee engagement with reference to Robert Dilts logical levels of change, looking at environment behaviours, capabilities, beliefs, identity, identity, and purpose.
Show Notes:
Here are the highlights from this episode
- 01:54 Importance of transferable skills in the workplace
- 02:39 Are there barriers?
- 03:07 Structures operating like a pendulum
- 03:22 Structure gives freedom
- 03:40 Structure security
- 04:47 Proactive & Reactive – learning from the herd
- 09:15 Accenture Report – The Three Pillars
- 09:58 Pulling in the same direction
- 10:55 Shared Consensus
- 11:18 Talent & Skills
- 13:05 Employee engagement and internal comms
- 14:28 The Comfort zone
- 16:12 Trust as a leader
- 16:56 Robert Dilts – Logical Levels of Change
Julia Felton (aka The Business Wrangler) is the founder of Business HorsePower. Business leaders, entrepreneurs and executives hire her to accelerate their business performance by harnessing the energy of their people to work more collaboratively together. By aligning purpose with actions the team achieves exponential results as everyone starts pulling in the same direction.
Julia believes that business is a force for good and through designing purpose-driven businesses that leverage the laws of nature, and the herd, you can create businesses founded on the principles of connection, collaboration and community that make a significant impact in the world.