Successful digital transformation depends on engaged leadership which has the power to influence the people who must adapt to changes and how they perform their jobs. With at least 70% of digital transformation projects failing due to employee resistance, the key to improving project outcomes lies in equipping leaders with the skills and mindset to lead their organisations through uncertain, ambiguous, and sometimes volatile changes.
Operationally focused leaders should start putting people first to achieve the efficiencies and productivity improvements promised by digital transformation. Importantly, leaders need to understand their influence and how they can contribute to the project’s success.
Self-aware leaders are better at leading
Self-awareness has become a critical characteristic and a foundational requirement for effective leaders. It is this which is often lacking in leaders that are ineffective at steering their organisations through transformational changes.
Self-awareness in leadership means understanding your strengths and weaknesses, character, behaviours, and motives, and how these impact your leadership abilities. It also helps you to see what type of leader you are, what leadership and communication styles your employees respond to, and how to adapt these to get employees to embrace the changes that need to happen.
Self-aware leaders are better at understanding their emotions and motives and how their conduct affects the people around them. This allows them to tap into their personal strengths and better manage relationships to support and guide teams through changes.
“We have seen first-hand how developing self-awareness in leadership dramatically improves the success rate of ambitious digital transformation and change projects,” – Isabel Adams, People Enablement Director, at AVeS Cyber International.
Capitalising on strengths improves outcomes
Finding out how your leadership team is enabling or thwarting digital transformation efforts and how they can use their strengths to motivate and support their people will help to improve digital transformation outcomes.
Everyone has strengths, and everyone has weaknesses. By participating in a Leadership programme that includes an Enneagram profiling assessment (a world-leading archetypal framework in personal development), leaders can identify the strengths and weaknesses of their personalities and through the exploration of their basic fears, motivators, passions, and temperaments can align their core strengths to business strategies and better lead their people through digital change.
The Enneagram is a system of personality typing that describes patterns in how people interpret the world and manage their emotions. The Enneagram describes nine personality types and maps each of these types on a nine-pointed diagramme which helps to illustrate how the types relate to one another.
Enneagram can be used to maximise collaboration and engagement so that leaders can nurture the strengths of each personality type. This helps to limit the behaviours that may derail projects while improving organisational performance, increasing project success rates and speed of adoption with healthier morale.
“Our team at AVeS Cyber Security have used this powerful tool to improve communication, collaboration, and engagement through a clear understanding of our team member’s individual Enneagram types.”
Equipping leaders to lead more effectively
Employees need skilled and self-aware leadership to innovate, adapt to and adopt changes within the organisation. Equip your directors and managers to lead organisations through change and drive successful digital transformation projects by participating in the AVeS Leadership 4.0 Programme.
Our Leadership 4.0 Programme equips leaders to lead their organisations through uncertain, complex and ambiguous market conditions. Aimed at all levels of leadership, the programme includes an Enneagram profile and combines two individual coaching sessions with a practical team integration workshop to align individual strengths to the organisation’s Digital Transformation Strategy, and enable leaders to become self-aware, improved leaders of the future.
Programme benefits
• Improve organisational performance and market competitiveness
• Improve digital transformation projects’ success rates: short-, medium- and long-term
• Improve collaboration within and across functional teams
• Increase speed of adoption across strategic projects
• Improve organisational morale, motivation and productivity
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