How do you persuade the CEO to invest in Leadership?
How do you feel about your own leaders’ capabilities? How can you drive a different kind of conversation about what drives success in your organisation?
Sarah Gillard, CEO of A Blueprint for Better Business, will share her hard-earned and thought-provoking insight into this in Friday’s webinar. Coming from a background in leadership in HR and OD, Sarah has successfully navigated how to stimulate fresh thinking about the purpose of an organisation – and how that can be linked to sustainable success.
‘We’re between two paradigms’, Sarah said, when I heard her speak at a leadership conference. She describes those paradigms clearly. I’d sensed them but not been able to articulate them so powerfully. This shift between eras is of strategic importance to organisations’ ability to succeed in an emerging future.
Sarah Gillard, Rupert Brown, CPO, and myself had a powerful conversation about how to get to the purpose of your own organisation and make that the heart of your HR strategies.
You can watch a recording of this webinar here.
‘In 2024, CHROs are prioritizing leadership capabilities and the employee experience as their top HR concerns.’
But how does the CHRO get the CEO to prioritise them?
That’s a central challenge for CHROs. With the rest of the leadership focussed on rather narrow and retrospective financials, how do you get them to broaden their thinking and recognise that leadership behaviours – including their own – are the key to sustained performance?
There’s some interesting colour-coding in this chart from Mercer in their CHRO 2024 report (link in graphic). It shows how the CHROs’ perceptions change when they’ve been in the role for longer. They’ve built a deeper, more nuanced picture of what drives success, and leaders’ role in that.
The graph also shows that progress so far is limited.