http://blog.ableandhow.com/blog/leadership/macleod-report-cant-we-go-faster Communication, organisational communication, change management and people. And some other things... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:02:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://blog.ableandhow.com/blog/leadership/macleod-report-cant-we-go-faster/comment-page-1#comment-3718 Sean Trainor Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:37:04 +0000 http://blog.ableandhow.com/blog/?p=772#comment-3718 In Lord Mandelson’s introduction to this report he states:“organisations that truly engage and inspire their employees produce world class levels of innovation” The key word is innovation, yet I get no sense that this is high up on leadership agenda. In fact, the report says that leaders believe that innovation will become more increasingly important over the next three years yet managers appear to be increasingly less likely to encourage innovation in the workplace: less than half of all employees say that their manager encouraged and supported new ways of doing things, developing their own ideas or trying out new ideas (decline of 20% in the last year). For me the priority for change in business is for leaders to adopt more innovative ways to engage their managers and their employees. That’s not about micro-analysis of ‘performance’ measures and ‘engagement’ scores but encouraging innovation and ideas in the workplace that are focused on competitive advantage and differentiation of your brand. That’s what inspires people. Even the micro-analysts will be inspired as they will be able to show an increase in ‘performance’ and ‘engagement’ metrics. A win-win. In Lord Mandelson’s introduction to this report he states:“organisations that truly engage and inspire their employees produce world class levels of innovation”
The key word is innovation, yet I get no sense that this is high up on leadership agenda. In fact, the report says that leaders believe that innovation will become more increasingly important over the next three years yet managers appear to be increasingly less likely to encourage innovation in the workplace: less than half of all employees say that their manager encouraged and supported new ways of doing things, developing their own ideas or trying out new ideas (decline of 20% in the last year).
For me the priority for change in business is for leaders to adopt more innovative ways to engage their managers and their employees. That’s not about micro-analysis of ‘performance’ measures and ‘engagement’ scores but encouraging innovation and ideas in the workplace that are focused on competitive advantage and differentiation of your brand. That’s what inspires people. Even the micro-analysts will be inspired as they will be able to show an increase in ‘performance’ and ‘engagement’ metrics. A win-win.

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