The CEO’s Role in Overcoming Inertia
Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by Ron Wilkinson in Finance
The CEO’s Role in Overcoming Inertia…is very important…and not all that difficult. You have to start by considering your leadership style. Are you hands on? Hands off? Somewhere in the middle? Do you solicit feedback from your staff? Do you respond favorably to feedback and suggestions or do you politely smile and do nothing? To overcome the inertia within yourself, your staff and your company you need to open yourself to new thoughts and ideas. Embrace the concept of change. Learn to really listen to your staff and understand what they are telling you. No one in a company knows better what works and what doesn’t than the staff who follow your processes and procedures each and every day. Help your executive team learn to listen to your front line staff. Then help them again by showing them you care enough to sit quietly and listen to them. Take notes. Ask follow up questions. Ask their opinions of what they’ve heard and learned 63785.
Now carry this attitude through to the offsite workshop we discussed last time. Your executive team will be watching you during the process. They will be looking for visual clues and listening for verbal clues from you so they will know what direction they should take. In order to overcome the inertia you can’t let that happen. You must remain neutral and only offer suggestions after your team has responded making sure those suggestions support their ideas rather than squash them. If you trust them they won’t let you down. You hired a quality staff, now prove your faith in them. You will be rewarded with ideas that will propel your company into a new future if implemented carefully and nurtured correctly.
Remember, your staff wants to help you be successful. Trust them. Help them grow. They will return the favor tenfold.
Next time we’ll talk about how to effectively implement those new ideas.
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