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We help clients to succeed at major business transformations by transforming the mindsets and behaviors of employees and leaders. Complex journeys of change and transformation demand a different approach – one that starts inside.
It’s a frustrating reality that many business transformations often fail to achieve lift-off. Despite smart strategies and finely honed plans, the value generated falls short of expectations and organizational performance shows no measurable or sustained improvement.
More often than not, the lack of progress can be traced back to challenges on the human side – for example, employees who resist the transformation or executives who do not have a playbook to manage the human side. Despite this, many companies still trod a path that is too focused on strategy and operating plans that will never get them to their desired destination, and even if they do, risk leaving their workforce stressed, anxious and exhausted.
The most forward-thinking companies are taking a different approach, and Potential Project is proud to be working alongside them. This approach puts the human journey of change right alongside the journey of strategic and organizational change. At its core is the understanding that individuals make transformations happen, not project plans or programs.
If you are ready to transform your business – or to jumpstart a failed transformation – it’s time to start from the inside out, not the outside in.
Neurology – or how our brains operate – explains a lot about why we dislike change. But when we recognize where resistance to transformations comes from and why, we can do something about it.
Do you know what the biggest stumbling block to a successful business transformation is? The mind.
Transformations typically require us to consciously change how we work and behave. But, our default mode of operating is unconscious. In fact, of the thousands of decisions we make every day, over 90% are made unconsciously.
Our brains have evolved to conserve energy and therefore we rely on mental shortcuts and habits to get things done efficiently. We operate in autopilot mode to dedicate as little conscious thought as possible during our days. Over time, it becomes difficult to break out of well-worn patterns of behavior.
Explore how your brain may resist transformation below.
When we recognize where resistance to transformations comes from and why, we can do something about it. When we replace default reactions with new mindsets, we can transform the experience of change into something positive, even rewarding. We can jumpstart transformations that have stalled or gone off track.
Read more about the mindsets that transform resistance to acceptance, that transform fear and failure to acceptance and real results. Download your Free Guide with insightful tips for our six mindsets:
Key takeaways from our recent event, Leadership Reimagined: Defying the Odds with Giny Boer, C&A CEO, Moses Mohan, Potential Project Partner and Nick Hobson, Director of Behavioral and Data Sciences at Potential Project.
A business transformation like the one that C&A is delivering is extremely hard to get right. Standard practice is failure, success is an outlier. Transformations succeed when leaders understand how the mind reacts to big changes and work to address that rather than ignore it. Mindsets such as curiosity (beginner's mind), courage and optimism are critical.
Giny and Moses agreed that transformation is created in community. A leader’s priority is to be curious, listen and to guide, not to hand down directives. In this way, teams become co-creators of the transformation initiative, and when roadblocks happen, everyone can look to each other for support and solutions.
Achieving Transformation Success
In this keynote, we create an interactive environment in which leaders can engage in self-reflection on their instinctive ways of leading. We focus on the natural, neurological resistance of human minds and how to manage the inherent dichotomies of transformations with a both/and mindset.
Participants will explore the dichotomies inherent in leading transformations. They will be encouraged in a facilitated conversation to discover what both/and leadership means for them in the context of the transformation, and how they could bring it to life.
Transformation Mindset Champion Program
Transformations require tailored solutions based on an understanding of your challenges and needs. Our experts and experienced facilitators guide teams through interactive discussions and exercises to build a transformational leadership community of practice to scale both/and transformation mindsets across the organization.
This program can be tailored for an already existing Transformation Office, or for a set of leaders spearheading the transformation or in key stakeholder roles. These Transformation Mindset Champions will be expected to diligently apply learnings on managing both/and dichotomies and thereby bring awareness on how they show up in the transformation, followed by a co-created plan where they will bring these learnings to the wider ecosystem within the organization
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