“You’ve got to be very, very careful not to do the job you used to do, but the job that you’re there to do,”
Colonel Brian Halloran, US Army.
At the executive level competency isn't enough. Directors, vice-presidents, and executives need to guide teams and drive change. If you want your team to thrive, you need to become adaptive with both people and processes.
According to the Harvard Business review article, "Why Change Programs Don't Produce Change," many leaders start with poor assumptions about how change processes occur. Leaders must engage employees at all levels to develop goals solutions to company problems without regard to hierarchy. In fact, many successful change initiatives begin outside the C-Level suites. Any successful deliberate change must include all levels of employees in the collaboration. Employee engagement surveys can be a good place to start.