Are You Overlooking this Essential Ingredient for Organizational Change?

What’s one of the most overlooked requirements for successful organizational change?

Executive stamina.

Whether I’m advising a leader who is new to the executive team or one who has decades of experience leading organizational change, they are always bringing important experience and perspective to the table.

But they’re rarely thinking about their own stamina and how it'll affect their ability to lead successful change.

It is possible to design, announce, and roll out a change in 6 months. Ensuring the change takes hold, however, could take a year (or several).

Change doesn’t take hold when leaders “launch and leave.”

It requires sustained leadership and focus over time – stamina – to become a new way of working instead of “something we tried once.”

If you’re a leader looking to make change at work or in life, ask yourself these two questions:
→ What do I need – physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually – to ensure I have the stamina to lead and sustain these changes?
→ How can my colleagues, friends, family, and trusted advisors support me and hold me accountable in taking care of these needs?

Asking for help with supporting your stamina can feel uncomfortable.

If you’ve been a CEO or executive leader for a while, you’re probably accustomed to dealing with these needs on your own (if at all).

But your stamina – and the stamina of all of your leaders – is essential to creating the change you want to make, growing your impact, and building a healthy, successful organization.

It’s both a personal imperative and a business imperative.

So if you want your next change to stick, start with supporting your own stamina today.