When Our Relationships Fail

For so long we have been stacking legislation upon legislation in a vain attempt to alter negative outcomes and change peoples behaviour.

This has spectacularly failed and we see a rise in poor well being, low engagement, unkind leadership, mediocre productivity and a rise in pyscho-social harm.

The most impactful actions you can take to shift these stats is to become lovers of people and understand what people need to perform at their best and what prevents that..and that will only ever come though deepening relationships and the intentional curiosity and recognition of what individual team members need to thrive and excel. The big shift in leadership for his season is a deeper handle on human psychology.

Latent skills and high functioning contributions lay hidden under the ridiculousness of regulation and legislation. Regulations do not change belief systems. We apply punitive measures to chastise error and failure when what we need to do is to be moving in closer and closer to understand the why events happen and foster the encouragement of solution discovery as a standard practice. Anytime you have punitive action, you bury your opportunity to uncover truth and the pathway to better. We are suffering from the gap between relationship and knowing deep functional data.

People talk much about "Courageous Conversations" (which I personally believe are nonsense - feel free to ask me why) however, what is really courageous is for a leader to first determine that people don't come to work to wreck organisations, and secondly, that real courage is to be able to look at ones own leadership and discover where systems and processes have facilitated error and systematic failures. Remember, YOU have what you lead and YOU have what you tolerate. We are where we have been led.

A courageous conversation had with yourself makes discovery possible and change towards excellence imminent.

My first people workshop this year is titled "Dangerous Leadership". (Not for the faint of heart)