Are you inviting people?
I love this quote from Lou Gerstner
"Management doesn't change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture"
Invites is such a lovely word..you invite friends and a company is a community. How can you invite?
- Blogging - can help invite a discussion of ideas
- At the end of meetings ask 'What are you thinking, how are you feeling'
- Coaching not managing.....help people find the answers by asking the questions
- Make personal connections to break down the boundaries. People talk to friends, people respect friends.
- Be visible. Be accessible. Be YOU
- Wiki's to invite people to share knowledge
- Open spaces to allow people to connect, to get together to talk.
- Speak from the heart not the powerpoint slide.
- Inspire and use storytelling within the business. This weeks podcast is an interview with Gerry Lantz who gives you some great insights into the power of stories.
Invite people to be part of the future, invite people to create the future, invite people to care....
