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We Need a New Paradigm for Leadership
We are grappling with a range of challenges in the workplace in this difficult moment: conflicting preferences for working hybrid vs. in-person; changes to people’s mindsets about work; cultural and generational differences; increased mental health issues including burnout; tension caused by geopolitical conflict; public and legal attacks on DEI; and more.
Our teams are struggling and our work environments are filled with issues that traditional ways of leading will not be able to address.
We need a new paradigm for leadership – one that is rooted in the fundamental principle that we must prioritize our team members’ needs first and foremost. And to make this happen, we, as leaders, must alter how we behave.
Shift Leadership Focuses on Individual Leader Behavior & Culture Change
At bci, we’re calling this new paradigm “Shift Leadership” because not only do we need to shift how we view leadership but, as leaders, we must shift our behaviors – which is about adjusting and adapting how we show up in the workplace.
While the focus of Shift Leadership may appear to be at the individual leader level, Shift Leadership is ultimately about creating organizational cultures that center team members’ needs and experiences – which, of course, leads to high-performance and success for all stakeholders.
Why Shift Leadership Training is Important for Executive Teams
Given the complexity, diversity, and nuanced nature of work environments in this moment, executive leadership teams must be equipped with a range of multi-disciplinary skills – skills that reflect the latest research on how to create healthy, vibrant, engaged, and collaborative workplaces. This is precisely what Shift Leadership training offers to executive leaders and their teams.
Why Choose bci for Shift Leadership Training
bci’s leadership experts have now worked with hundreds of organizations across industries, presented to hundreds of thousands of people, and coached over a thousand leaders globally. In addition, we have now developed deep expertise across a range of fundamental leadership areas, which together with our vast training experience, enables us to offer high impact Shift Leadership training. Leadership skills development must be multi-disciplinary, which is what bci is known for.
Our Shift Leadership training draws on our in-depth knowledge of these areas:
- Belonging
- Empathy
- Vulnerability
- Authenticity
- Collaboration
- Empowerment
- Engagement
- Wellness
Did You Know?
Shift Leadership is a cutting-edge reframe of leadership.
“Old ways won’t open new doors.” For over a decade now, the business community has recognized that we need to course correct how we engage, inspire, and incentivize our teams. But very little has been done to create change.
Shift Leadership is focused on addressing the core root of the leadership challenges we’re experiencing with talent management: that we cannot unlock the greatest good for our organizations until we prioritize the needs of our team members. But we will only be able to do this by holding leaders accountable for addressing and healing their own internal blocks, barriers, negative narratives, and wounds. This reframe of leadership is transformative.
All of bci’s leadership training can be offered virtually or in-person.
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Shift Leadership – A New Paradigm for Unlocking Engagement, Belonging, Empathy, and Psychological Safety in Workplaces
by Melinda Briana Epler
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