HOW FEELING GOOD ABOUT ONE’S LIFE INFLUENCES PEOPLE TO GO FURTHER PROFESSIONALLY
Apart from financial results, growth, dimension, a humanist leader is identified by the respect, attention, and interest he has for those he leads. Leadership naturally has people at the top of its priorities. Or should we rather say: it has humans at the top of its priorities?
Has this already happened to you as a leader?
"I found out about that person's circumstances too late. She had already decided to leave and there was nothing I could say or do to keep her in the organization."
"One of the best employees suddenly had a brutal drop in performance and was never the same."
"A key element in the team dynamic broke down!"
If you adopt Humanistic leadership this will be less likely to happen to you. Why? Simple...
Because managing the well-being of your team and each person around you is, almost spontaneously, at the top of your concerns. Not just as a professional, but as a person, which is very different.
Most leaders struggle to recognize this
A leader must gather the best possible conditions for the performance of a team and for each of its members. But the question is tricky.
What does "gathering the best conditions" mean? Exclusively for professional performance? Or should we consider, in a wider range of conditions, that in addition to professionalism there is something else that can interfere with their well-being and performance?
People's lives are much more than work, no matter how much passion and dedication they show. Life surely means working a lot – legalists, minimalists, and confused ones will say at least 40 hours a week or so. But that's not all...
Pandemic and telecommuting changed the way we work a lot.
A few days ago, a leader of a corporate group shared, with special delight and surprise, that the "overall performance of his team increased by 20% in this "crisis" period".
Why did this happen?
People with a more balanced life show improvements in their performance.
The answer given was "people are much more satisfied with their working habits because it allows them to manage their life more harmoniously".
Satisfaction as a Person produces effects on Professional performance! People who are Well with Life Produce More.
The core of Humanistic Leadership
But is there anything else that can motivate them? Could it be that the human dimension, in the sense of belonging to a greater cause, communal or planetary, can produce even greater performance effects and teams' satisfaction?
The concept of Humanistic Leadership is often reduced to the well-being of the people who are close to an organization.
But in reality, Humanism implies another dimension, another amplitude. It contemplates future generations and opens horizons of contribution and responsibility of citizenship at a larger scale - be it a communitarian or planetary one- by generating a larger, more diverse, inclusive feeling of belonging... a more Humanistic one.
Satisfaction as a Human Being produces effects on performance! People "Well with the World", really impact the Planet.
This is one of the reasons why mylle's #leadershipdesign is based on pillars such as #PurposeDesign and #LegacyDesign.
The decisions are always up to the leader, but the questions are analyzed, and, in most cases, the leadership project embraces this vision, and everybody wins, both people and the team, because their motivation increases; the leaders, because they add value to their organization and the role of their leadership.
Curiously, or not, the most recent generations are great protagonists of change because they have a more global vision of the world and reveal themselves, even at the expense of better material conditions, more in causes than financial gains. Idealists? I don't think so. Humanists.
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