Continuing with the theme of Human Centered Talent Management today, let’s talk more about Human Centered Leadership.
Businesses are run by human-beings. Human-beings make them run smoothly; human-beings create value for the company and its stakeholders; human-beings make or break a business.
It’s odd then, that although so many companies talk about their people being their greatest asset, their actions don’t always align to that statement.
It’s time we embraced more human-centered leadership to bring out the best in people. I realise that leaders have a dearth of time – well actually, that’s not true, it’s really a dearth of attention. If only leaders would realise that investing time in conversations with their people would lead to the results that they currently focus most of their attention on, we’d all be better off. It’s not one or the other – human-centered leadership creates results, by engaging people in ways that motivate them (not necessarily ways that motivate us).
In a recent Future of Work study,
“Respondents told us that today’s conversations about the relationship, and its measures, place too much emphasis on how it benefits the company and are missing at least half of what the future of work relationship is about”
Employees “see companies as vehicles to achieve their goals and dreams — vehicles that can amplify their passions, achievements and community relationships beyond what they could have done on their own or elsewhere.”
So just as Antoinette said in her podcast, we need to look at both sides’ needs, rather than just the business’ needs, so that we attract, retain and engage people for higher performance.
What do you think?
