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Last year your organisation was restructured and you were responsible for managing it. You knew right from the word go what had to be done: those colleagues and employees affected were on board from the start and the changes made were transparent and communicated to all. The result was that everyone concerned implemented the changes not only willingly, but creatively in their respective areas.

This is what you hope for during the next process of restructuring in your organisation.

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Leading with impact

* Copyright Elisabeth Ferrari

You were immediately thrilled when, due to your terrific performance in your job, you were offered a leadership position. You had long thought of how you might be given more responsibility and creative leeway in your job.

The first things you did were to get an idea of the requirements of the new post, to talk to your line managers about their expectations and to organize a meeting with your new team. With your rousing inaugural speech you were able to enthuse your colleagues from the start and have them share the department’s goals. In due course, you did all you could to talk to everyone as often as possible in order to ensure that each and every one was able to flourish in their job.

Now, everything runs as you had hoped for. Conflicts, envy, apathy and resistance – these are things other departments experience. In your department a friendly and refreshingly creative atmosphere is immediately apparent, a working environment in which mistakes are accepted and seen as opportunities to learn and new ideas are welcomed. With this mindset, constructive criticism and appreciation are the norm.

Women in Leadership

Already early onwards in your professional development you enjoyed taking responsibility. Yet, as a rather reserved person, your former employer usually overlooked you when making personnel decisions, which you attributed to your not yet perfectly developed competencies. When the time came and you decided to change jobs you were offered a management position at your current organisation. Initially you were unsure whether you would be able to meet the demands there.

Right at the beginning, however, you were assigned a mentor. This showed you a lot about the equality and diversity already practised in your new organisation. You are excelling in your role. Your success proves your company is doing it right: compared to others, your organisation is one of the most innovative and popular employers in the sector and is well positioned in the market. Promoting diversity and mixed teams are not just spoken about in your organisation. They are reflected by the fact that all employees are encouraged in their development and are supported in doing so. For you personally, this was a stroke of luck - in another environment you would not have dared to lead a team so early and would have preferred to let others take the lead.

Is this or something similar what you imagine for your leadership role?

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The successful development of your team or company is complete, and now you want to take stock. In this, it is important to you to involve all those who have accompanied you thus far. You take your colleagues and employees on a journey through time, in order to reflect both on the successful path that has led to today as well as on the detours that were made on the way. With knowledge of all that has been achieved so far, everyone concerned is full of energy and highly motivated to work on developing a strategy for the coming years. Everybody goes back to work in the secure knowledge that the organisation has what it takes to meet the challenges of the future.

You are thinking about a realignment of your team or company and you would like some professional guidance in this endeavour?

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As an experienced project manager, you know that projects often fail to achieve their objectives or produce results that in retrospect no one uses. Therefore, before each and every new project you ask yourself the following key questions: What is the problem that this project is supposed to help solve? What therefore is the goal of the project? Who do I need to have on board and how best should I communicate both within the project team and to those beyond, in order to complete the project successfully? Not only are there lessons learned at the end of the project, but during it you and your team reflect regularly on the state of play in order to ensure that you are aware of the risks and problems that could jeopardize the project at any time. Your success shows that you knew what you were doing: your projects are always completed on time and your clients and customers are thrilled.

Would you like your projects to run like this? I would be happy to hear from you on this matter.

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Being responsible for personnel in the organization, you are in charge of organising the training programmes for those moving into leadership positions. You offer the latest professional development modules designed to support the participants in honing their leadership skills, in learning to communicate convincingly, in bringing colleagues on board and moving change in the organisation forward. Each and every training seminar is perfectly designed to fit the work experiences of the participants in order that the new material learned can be quickly implemented in their day-to-day work.

You would welcome some support when it comes to implementing your innovative leadership skills programme?

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Upon completion of the restructuring of the division you observe that all is not well in your team: energy is dissipated, ideas fall on stony ground, work with other departments is draining and often leads to conflicts. Existing processes no longer fit with the new structures. However, you manage during a workshop with your superiors to discuss shared problems and possible solutions. Along with more transparency from above, you succeed in having all participants agree to steps that all can see are necessary for a solution. You try these steps out and now hear from your colleagues that they are again more motivated to come to work.

Can you imagine this happening in your team or division?

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“Not another change – I’ve hardly got used to the last one!”

When you heard from your boss that over the coming months massive changes in your job description are due to take place, you were at first shocked. Having then asked yourself what it is that you actually really enjoy about your job, you quickly noticed that your are pretty well positioned for the new tasks required of you and indeed that the forthcoming changes will lead to some improvements for you. You come to realize that even significant job or career upheavals can lead to both greater professional satisfaction and more freedom.

“Is this really the place for me?”

At first sight your new job with a well-known market leader appeared to be just right for you, a new challenge and you felt proud to be part of a well-regarded company. However, you quickly noticed that this is not the place for you despite the admiration and support you received from your friends and colleagues. Once you were clear what it is you actually want and like to do professionally, you knew what steps to take next in order once again to feel happy at work and to feel that what you have to offer can have an impact.

Challenging rather than over-challenging yourself

After years of success at work you ask yourself how are you supposed to deal with the ever-increasing burdens? You seem to be a victim of your own success. The analysis of the recipe for professional success that had thus far served you so well, made it immediately clear that what in the past had worked, either no longer has an impact or requires too much of your energy. In this way the path was cleared for new approaches. Today, as before, when you get back home from work you are able to enjoy your well-earned time off without work-related worries.

Does one of these scenarios sound familiar to you? Is this how you imagine its resolution panning out?

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