“Leadership is the art of getting people to want to do what must be done.”
Jim Collins, Author of Good to Great
We desire to see communities, organizations and businesses transformed through great leadership. It must start with self-leadership and a personal commitment to personal growth and life-long learning. You cannot share with your team what you do not have.
Whether you lead a team of employees or a volunteer team in a social sector, your people have the same core needs as all humans. Harvard Business Review has shown that employees or volunteers who have more of their needs met are more engaged, are more likely to stay, are less stressed, more focused, have more life satisfaction and bring more positive energy to their work.
Unfortunately, this same study of 19,000 + workers showed that only 7% of people had their four core needs met at work.
This translates into poorly engaged employees and volunteers. The Gallup organization has been studying employee engagement around the world for years. Their recent surveys have shown that only 20% of Canadian employees are engaged, slightly better than the global average of 15%.
“Only 20% of Canadian employees are engaged at work.”
Gallop 2017 global workforce report
So, we need more transformational leaders. Today’s workforce, especially younger workers and volunteers, do not thrive with the industrial era transactional leadership style.
Read about the difference in transactional and transformational leadership here.
IHTC partners with Leader2Leader PEI to provide leadership development opportunities.
Dr. Visser and others on our team are available as guest speaker for your team or leadership meetings, in-person of virtual. We are also available for Sunday pulpit supply on topics such as forgiveness or how the local church can be a healing community. Use the Contact Us page.
“Thank you for organizing yesterday’s MG event. I’ve been to a lot of office conferences over the years and I’ll have to admit that Dr Visser’s presentation was the best I’ve experienced. It really hit home and has motivated and excited me to try to be a better leader.”
From cra leadership development virtual event
