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

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