Optimising leadership skills

There are great differences to be observed when looking at managers’ people skills. Also, the management team’s communication and remuneration systems, mainly for historical reasons, are often not in line with the required result. Typical challenges facing HR Executives when developing leadership skills within their organisation include:

• Members of the board and managers are chosen because they are result-oriented, rather than focusing on the human aspect. As a result, talents and capacities of their team members are being neglected
• Remote teams have become more common in the workplace. But leadership across geographical regions can be difficult, even for the best manager
• Employees demand equal remuneration, regardless of their performance
• Managers try to keep 'social peace' at all levels,
  thus avoiding performance-related remuneration
• HR departments aren't business-oriented and therefore
  don't take initiatives to motivate top performers
• Young, talented employees consider flexibility to be important,
  while employers are still having problems coming to terms with this idea

Our customers implemented the following capabilities

Perpetos supports their clients in the optimisation of leadership skills. Our customers implemented the following capabilities:
 

• Establishing transparent processes, in line with the corporate DNA
• Involving staff in the execution of strategy
• Stressing recognition and rewards, introducing personal targets, roles and responsibilities; this also makes the top and underperformers more visible
• Creating an inspiring corporate culture of involvement and diversity
• Making efficient use of the available technology and resources
• Establishing a communication plan: what to communicate to whom and when
• Creating trust with social partners

The result

A medium-sized technology company introduced most of the above mentioned skills. As a result, the number of meetings fell by 63% and the length of the remaining meetings was more than halved. Employee output rose appreciably. After an initial short period of scepticism, all of the teams are now highly enthusiastic and staff come up with ideas for removing inefficiency and obstacles to the implementation the company’s strategy.