Human performance, learning and development are fundamental to business success. People are an organization’s greatest assets and make the difference between a sustainable thriving organization and a less effective one.
To be organizational leaders need to be well rounded, possessing both business AND emotional competencies. The ability to establish balanced and healthy relationships and to regulate one self are crucial for productive interactions in the workplace.
Whether you are productive as a leader depends on what you do. What you do however depends on who you are. Research even indicates that 85% of a leaders’s performance depends on personal character.
Becoming more effective as an executive leader requires a balanced and integrated focus on both what you do AND who you are. Therefore leadership development goes much further than just the development of skills and competencies; it includes the willingness to be self reflective and change oneself. Or, as Warren Bennis expresses it “there is no difference between becoming an effective leader and becoming a fully integrated human being”.
If 85% of a leader’s performance depends on character, my question to you as an organizational leader or HR professional is: Which percentage of your leadership development program addresses the human being versus the human doing?
Ank Stuyfzand
Coach & Consultant
ank@insideoutenterprise.com
www. insideoutenterprise.com
Ank Stuyfzand
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