I was recently reading about how some leaders are not properly addressing today’s environmental and strategic threats because they continue to use outdated and antiquated models of assessing what is actually a threat and what is the best course of action. The author attributed this to what he deemed as “strategic atrophy.”
As unique challenges arise in your workplaces you need to avoid this problem of strategic atrophy. Leaders today are confronting some very unique challenges. The most profound and global-reaching, is the recent pandemic — and the way in which innovation and change has had to happen continually … even daily, in your work environments.
New challenges, such as a pandemic, require you as leaders, to recognize that the status quo isn’t going to help you succeed in this new post-pandemic environment. If you continue to innovate and strategize as you always have, the world and health care in general, will leave you behind. You need to evaluate if your current strategy is based on an outdated premise or model. What worked ten or even five years ago may not work today.
You need to be committed to the reality of continuous performance improvement in action not just in words. Most importantly now is the time to get creative. Necessity is the mother of all invention. You are living in a time where there are compelling reasons to get inventive. Instead of clinging to past success as a model on which to base performance, now is the time to harness disruption and to invent and improve.
This will require entire work forces to be adept at change. They must be taught how to change – not just in terms of ‘what’s new’, but in terms of how to create the necessary mindset wherein change is neither disruptive or upsetting. This will require an organizational culture change to a new way of thinking and behaving. In order to pull it off, you and your people will need the skill of Positive Presence.
CORPORATE HARMONY is grateful to Dr. Michael E. Frisina for his contributions to this entry.
Catherine is the President and CEO of CORPORATE HARMONY, providing virtual solutions for leadership development and organizational culture change. Her leadership and coaching experience as a Project Manager in an ever-changing, fast moving technological organization with unrelenting demands drove her to the realization that a positive mindset and strength-building behaviors are essential for today’s complex and chaotic organizational systems. CORPORATE HARMONY’s virtual platform of programs, coaching and performance measurement, is an innovative online technology of tested proprietary content. The world-class content of CORPORATE HARMONY’s Positive Presence Program develops the skill of ‘Positive Presence’ and the necessary ‘Positive Presence Behaviour Competencies’ for maintaining a positive and energized mindset and increased performance in today’s complex work environment, and leading to a culture of collaboration and connection. Catherine’s vision for Corporate Harmony is to bring the skill of “Positive Presence” to the corporate world as it becomes more complex, ambiguous and chaotic. Catherine is uniquely positioned to impact organizations’ productivity and long term success, with her powerful vision of eliminating bad stress from every workplace around the globe, bringing purpose into the people equation to promote healthy, productive and meaningful work cultures and turn the tide on the neglect of mental health on a global scale. Catherine is author of the book: “CORPORATE HARMONY – The Performance Link for Today’s Modern Organization” Catherine can be reached at: Catherine.Osborne@corporateharmony.ca or go to ‘contact us’ on our website www.corporateharmony.ca. Catherine is available for consultation, and can be reached by 519-695-3407.