The dramatic transformation in the business landscape over the world made it clear that businesses have to follow completely different and innovative approaches to thrive. This notion has been accelerated many folds by the pandemic last year. Even the wizards of the field believe that businesses now have only two years to reach the position where they earlier planned to reach in five years.
This calls for a significant transformation in leadership and its approaches. For that reason, many leadership development programs have derived new propositions to enable leaders for the rapidly changing landscape. These programs are delivering lessons in various aspects to empower the leaders of tomorrow with all the necessary arrows in their quiver. Here we highlight some steps that future business builders can follow to help their companies thrive and compete strongly.
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1. Rethink the possible
In today’s world, possible is not what can happen, it is what you can make happen. Technology has redefined the art of the possible by opening doors to the opportunities that seemed delusional earlier. You need to acknowledge the change and embrace every possibility that comes your way.
You should utilize these possibilities to break the boundaries and rise above the compromises. Leaders have to fuel the imagine of their team and encourage them to view and define the future in a new light.
2. Reimagine processes with bold directions
Keeping the technology at the core, business leaders have to reinvent business models that are more ambitious and harmonize with the new market. You have to become a change-maker and rethink what you deliver and how you work on that. You need to imagine an aspiration from tomorrow and work backward to derive the way to achieve that.
3. A shift from managing to enabling
Gone are the days when you would direct the employees for their tasks and manage them. In the present time, You need to enable them to bring their maximum potential to the table. You need to steer skills such as business judgment, context understanding, creativity, and cooperation.
4. Inflict good behavior
With most of the tasks accomplished by the technology, employees are expected to bring churn more humanly traits. In addition to the cognitive and subjective skills, you should also nurture progressive behavior in your people. For instance, innovation and critical thinking should become a part of individual behavior and get into habit. Leveraging technology and behavioral science to nudge tools such as gamification etc, is an excellent way to achieve that.
5. Hire the characters and train the masters
The transformation in the business landscape has also impacted the recruitment priorities of business leaders. Now, you hire people for personal traits. In addition to the core skills you look for integrity, creativity, judgment skills, and entrepreneurialism. Leaders can develop on such a solid foundation and churn out the best in their team members.
6. Engage in technology
To develop a bionic company, leaders need to harness the power of technology and reshape the operation models. You need to scratch the upper surface of the buzzwords such as digital and technology and unearth the growth possibilities from beneath them. You should cultivate a culture that is woven around tech fluency and empower your team through periodic learning programs. Also, use technology to unleash complete transparency in the company to encourage ethical and informed decisions.
