{"id":19343,"date":"2019-02-26T08:38:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T14:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archivegl.unlabbeta.com\/?p=19343"},"modified":"2019-02-26T08:38:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T14:38:24","slug":"in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/","title":{"rendered":"In what ways are you leading transformation today?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"
This pristine Minnesota retreat center was the site for a transformational leadership team retreat last week.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New leaders are seldom hired to protect the status quo: to preserve the existing state<\/em>. Incremental progress: small, methodical change\u00a0<\/em>isn’t very attractive either.\u00a0Because the pace of change is rapidly accelerating, leaders today are most often asked to think in\u00a0transformational ways: profound (sometimes radical) change that sends an organization in a whole new direction.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Coaching for transformation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Within the past five business days, our team has been working with two relatively new leaders who are creating transformational change in their world. One is a Minneapolis\/St. Paul-based non-profit CEO, whose organization serves the population with mental illness and homelessness. We met with her team at a retreat center in Victoria, MN. The other is an international pharmaceutical leader whose organization is focused on dramatically reducing the cost of drugs in the healthcare system. We are meeting with his team this week in the magical city of Prague, in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n

\"\"
Within the magical, Medieval city of Prague, there is exciting, transformational work being done to reduce the cost of drugs in the healthcare system.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In both situations, we coached with the same message: To claim “transformation” means to accept “disruption.” So, “transformation” is a word that needs to be used carefully. This is because most people are threatened by disruptive change – at home and at work.<\/p>\n

It’s easier to embrace disruption when we all agree we are in crisis. But that’s not the situation with either of these two clients. Both are overcoming their own sense of accomplishment and comfort. That’s much harder to do!<\/p>\n

Transformation comes from within<\/strong><\/p>\n

For both leaders to succeed, each has to embrace the idea that\u00a0transformational change\u00a0<\/em>in an organization is directly related to\u00a0transformational change\u00a0<\/em>inside each of the leaders. In other words: we cannot expect to transform an organization, without expecting to transform\u00a0ourselves. <\/em>“Transformation” means:\u00a0profound (sometimes radical) change that sends us in a whole new direction.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"
This team will transform their organization, and themselves by embracing their dissatisfaction, and planning their own personal transformations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anyone whose intentionally lost a lot of weight, stopped smoking or drinking, written a book, or run a marathon understands personal transformation. None of these activities are status quo. Seldom incremental. More likely transformational.<\/p>\n

So, as coaches, we take great care to ask new leaders and their teams these specific questions:<\/p>\n

1. In what ways are you\u00a0unsatisfied\u00a0<\/em>with the impact of your work?<\/p>\n

2. Do you believe your vision is sufficiently “transformational” to be satisfying?<\/p>\n

3. If so, what needs to\u00a0transform within you,\u00a0<\/em>to lead this transformation?<\/p>\n

Then we inject healthy tension, <\/em>and appropriate amounts of\u00a0silence, to allow for the transformational thoughts to speak loudly inside us.<\/p>\n

Start – Stop – Continue<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"
Seeing the Cathedral in Prague Castle – built 700 years ago – helps me see the vision of the good leaders who came before me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The idea of\u00a0transformation\u00a0<\/em>in any organization means you are willing to change both how you operate, and what you measure – more than 50% over a 3 year period of time. That’s game-changing change. In general, the people important to your success are willing to follow if they can see and feel these three things in your leadership:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. YOU are changing – transforming yourself in ways that make you a better leader.<\/li>\n
  2. You coach them<\/em> through the change in ways that help them feel like “winners” – instead of victims of the change.<\/li>\n
  3. You react and respond\u00a0positively to big goals\u00a0<\/em>and the inevitable roadblocks along the way.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So, I hope this causes you to pause and think about: What do I need to\u00a0start doing\u00a0<\/em>to lead this change?\u00a0What do I need to\u00a0stop doing\u00a0<\/em>to lead this change?\u00a0What do I need to continue\u00a0doing\u00a0<\/em>to lead this change?<\/p>\n

    How you live out your Start-Stop-Continue answers has everything to do with how effective you will be at leading your transformation today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    New leaders are seldom hired to protect the status quo: to preserve the existing state. Incremental progress: small, methodical change isn’t very attractive either. Because the pace of change is rapidly accelerating, leaders today are most often asked to think in transformational ways: profound (sometimes radical) change that sends an organization in a whole new direction. Within the past five business days, our team has been working with two relatively new leaders who are creating transformational change in their world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-habits"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nIn what ways are you leading transformation today? - Good Leadership<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In what ways are you leading transformation today? - Good Leadership\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New leaders are seldom hired to protect the status quo: to preserve the existing state. Incremental progress: small, methodical change isn't very attractive either. Because the pace of change is rapidly accelerating, leaders today are most often asked to think in transformational ways: profound (sometimes radical) change that sends an organization in a whole new direction. Within the past five business days, our team has been working with two relatively new leaders who are creating transformational change in their world.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Good Leadership\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoodLeadershipEnterprises\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-02-26T14:38:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Unknown-3-1-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Paul Batz\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Paul Batz\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Paul Batz\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1e04f1dec941a3368ccc20d0c45ce7e8\"},\"headline\":\"In what ways are you leading transformation today?\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-02-26T14:38:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/\"},\"wordCount\":704,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Unknown-3-1-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Success Habits\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/\",\"name\":\"In what ways are you leading transformation today? - Good Leadership\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Unknown-3-1-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-02-26T14:38:24+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Unknown-3-1-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Unknown-3-1-1.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":480,\"caption\":\"Within the magical, Medieval city of Prague, there is exciting, transformational work being done to reduce the cost of drugs in the healthcare system.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"In what ways are you leading transformation today?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/\",\"name\":\"Good Leadership\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Good Leadership\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\",\"caption\":\"Good Leadership\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1e04f1dec941a3368ccc20d0c45ce7e8\",\"name\":\"Paul Batz\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c69a7ac11f0bc6f45306745b57ecdde6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c69a7ac11f0bc6f45306745b57ecdde6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Paul Batz\"},\"description\":\"Paul Batz is CEO and Founder of Good Leadership Enterprises. He is an inspirational leadership coach, best selling author and professional speaker. His Good Leadership blog is recognized as one of the top leadership posts in America today.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoodLeadershipEnterprises\/\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/author\/paulbatz\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"In what ways are you leading transformation today? - Good Leadership","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"In what ways are you leading transformation today? - Good Leadership","og_description":"New leaders are seldom hired to protect the status quo: to preserve the existing state. Incremental progress: small, methodical change isn't very attractive either. Because the pace of change is rapidly accelerating, leaders today are most often asked to think in transformational ways: profound (sometimes radical) change that sends an organization in a whole new direction. Within the past five business days, our team has been working with two relatively new leaders who are creating transformational change in their world.","og_url":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/","og_site_name":"Good Leadership","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoodLeadershipEnterprises\/","article_published_time":"2019-02-26T14:38:24+00:00","og_image":[{"width":640,"height":480,"url":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Unknown-3-1-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Paul Batz","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Paul Batz","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/"},"author":{"name":"Paul Batz","@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1e04f1dec941a3368ccc20d0c45ce7e8"},"headline":"In what ways are you leading transformation today?","datePublished":"2019-02-26T14:38:24+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/"},"wordCount":704,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Unknown-3-1-1.jpg","articleSection":["Success Habits"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/","url":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/","name":"In what ways are you leading transformation today? - Good Leadership","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Unknown-3-1-1.jpg","datePublished":"2019-02-26T14:38:24+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Unknown-3-1-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Unknown-3-1-1.jpg","width":640,"height":480,"caption":"Within the magical, Medieval city of Prague, there is exciting, transformational work being done to reduce the cost of drugs in the healthcare system."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/in-what-ways-are-you-leading-transformation-today\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"In what ways are you leading transformation today?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/","name":"Good Leadership","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#organization","name":"Good Leadership","url":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"","contentUrl":"","caption":"Good Leadership"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1e04f1dec941a3368ccc20d0c45ce7e8","name":"Paul Batz","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c69a7ac11f0bc6f45306745b57ecdde6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c69a7ac11f0bc6f45306745b57ecdde6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Paul Batz"},"description":"Paul Batz is CEO and Founder of Good Leadership Enterprises. He is an inspirational leadership coach, best selling author and professional speaker. His Good Leadership blog is recognized as one of the top leadership posts in America today.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoodLeadershipEnterprises\/"],"url":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/author\/paulbatz\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}