TSG Products - Leadership & Change Series

Leadership & Change

Never has the struggle for business survival been so intense. Heightened competition puts leaders and managers under continuous pressure to improve processes and performance, to do everything faster and more effectively, all with fewer resources.

At the same time, as organizational walls come tumbling down and change becomes the only constant, the traditional skills of management, aimed at creating and maintaining stability, have only limited application.

To meet this challenge, today's leaders and managers must acquire a broader set of skills. They must be able to:

Create a shared sense of purpose by developing and communicating a compelling vision.

Lead an increasingly diverse set of teams and individual contributors whose technical and functional know-how frequently exceed their own.

Focus and coordinate the efforts of cross-functional teams, customers, and suppliers over whom they may have no direct control.

As initiators and agents of change, leaders and managers need to understand the stages of change in an organization and how different individuals respond to change initiatives. They need to assess and understand their own role in the change process and identify the strategies and styles they will use to align their people, create a shared purpose, pre-empt resistance to change, and deal with critical change targets and stakeholders.

These are the new fundamentals. Only with expanded skills in these areas can leaders and managers deal effectively with the conflicting priorities they confront each day and meet critical short term and long-term objectives.

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