Creating an Agile and High Performance Team
This article promotes the use of the Authentic Leadership Model to manage change. The author provides examples of successful change, challenges, and solutions to help the company evolve.
Summary
Our conventional wisdom regards high stress executive leadership as indigenous to a high performance organization. This belief is understandable when witnessing the ever accelerating rate of change brought on by the game changing disruptive technologies arising throughout the world. However, this is, literally, a destructive, unhealthy myth.
Stress is a large factor in all of the preventable, "lifestyle," diseases such as obesity, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and the more popular forms of cancer (breast, prostate and colon). Economically and morally, it makes no sense to tolerate a high stress working environment. Everyone deserves a "low stress, fulfilling life adventure of our own design". It is a birthright for everyone to create a life that is truly their own and then own it.
"An Agile, High Performance Team flourishing in a low-stress environment" is a proven concept; it exists! The Authentic Leadership Principles making it possible evolved over 30 years with the intention of creating High Performance in a Low Stress Environment!
The Authentic Leadership Model is an integral part of our coaching practice. The model unfolds as a series of brief (one to three pages) Coaching Handouts, designed to deepen the learning and advance the action after a coaching session.
Today's successful organization is not the "well-oiled machine," of the past. It is a "living, breathing evolving organism!" Today's successful organization is a healthy organism with sensitive feedback circuits that make it aware of changes in its environment, or more precisely, its "Ecosystem". The organizational organism must adapt to its changing Ecosystem or perish.
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change". – Charles Darwin
Stress is a large factor in all of the preventable, "lifestyle," diseases such as obesity, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and the more popular forms of cancer (breast, prostate and colon). Economically and morally, it makes no sense to tolerate a high stress working environment. Everyone deserves a "low stress, fulfilling life adventure of our own design". It is a birthright for everyone to create a life that is truly their own and then own it.
"An Agile, High Performance Team flourishing in a low-stress environment" is a proven concept; it exists! The Authentic Leadership Principles making it possible evolved over 30 years with the intention of creating High Performance in a Low Stress Environment!
The Authentic Leadership Model is an integral part of our coaching practice. The model unfolds as a series of brief (one to three pages) Coaching Handouts, designed to deepen the learning and advance the action after a coaching session.
Today's successful organization is not the "well-oiled machine," of the past. It is a "living, breathing evolving organism!" Today's successful organization is a healthy organism with sensitive feedback circuits that make it aware of changes in its environment, or more precisely, its "Ecosystem". The organizational organism must adapt to its changing Ecosystem or perish.
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change". – Charles Darwin
Source: Bill Shirley, https://www.managementexchange.com/story/power-of-authentic-leadership
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