When you are leading your business team through complex change your team’s success will to a large extent depend on the level of transparency you are able to establish. The power of transparency is often underestimated. The true meaning of…
Read More
Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Latest on LeadershipWatch, Leadership
Tags: Asian Cultures, Corporate Change, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Leading Change, Multinational Corporation, Program Management, Teamwork, Transparency, VUCA
This is a Dutch translation of a previously published Leadershipwatch article on the importance of people alignment, especially for those who lead change. Click to read original article. ‘We hadden een duidelijke strategie uitgezet, maar ik zie nog steeds geen…
Read More
In Part 1 of this series I wrote about the importance of people alignment as a crucial competence for today’s leaders. Especially in a globalized world, where cross-cultural and multinational challenges are becoming more and more a normal part of…
Read More
Category: Business Transformation, Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Culture Change, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leadership Skills, Organization Development, People Skills
Tags: Business Environments, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Cross-Cultural Teams, Emerging markets, Intercultural Leadership, Leadership, Leading Teams, Management, Multinational Corporation, Team Alignment, Teamwork
“The team is already four months involved in this change process. They are informed in detail about the reasons for the change and the objectives that were set by the executive board. The phase of ‘not knowing’ or ‘not understanding’…
Read More
Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Culture Change, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Organization Development, Team Work
Tags: Aad Boot, Alignment, Business, Business Transformation, Change Management, Cultural Change, Jim Collins, Lead change, Leadership, Leading Teams, Organization Development, Organizational Culture, People Alignment, Teamwork
In my earlier post Why Alignment is crucial for those who Lead Change I explained how a lack of alignment can lead to compliance instead of commitment and how this can be a serious setback in achieving change. In all the…
Read More
Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Communication, Employee Engagement, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leading Change
Tags: Alignment, Change Management, Commitment, Compliance, Lead change, Leadership, Management, Organizational Change, People Alignment, Teamwork