3 Pillars to Balancing Business
LEADERSHIP
- Analyze Your Generational, Cultural & Gender Jaws
- Align Leaders on WHY and HOW to Balance
- Craft a Compelling Business Case
- Prepare the CEO
CULTURE
Build Inclusive Cultures
- Cascade Balanced Management Skills
- Mainstream Awareness
- Measure Progress, Maintain Momentum
- Celebrate (Everyone’s) Success
SYSTEMS
Adapt Systems
- Build Balanced Systems
- Review Sales & Marketing Opportunities
- Adapt HR & Talent Management Policies
Communicate Carefully
(make change before making noise)
Initiatives should be leader-led, strategically focused and business-driven. Accountability for change must lie with leaders to define and implement the balance that makes the most sense to their changing business realities. And CEOs must recognise that it takes time to build awareness and skills for managers to effectively lead across cultures and genders… the buck stops with every CEO.
“I think we are doing the right thing, in the right way. My next priority will be to bring more ownership of the topic to ever lower levels of the organization. But we are seeing the idea taking hold, taking on a life of its own.”
