People sustainability drives and sustains the growth of an organisation; it builds sustainability into business performance. People need to feel that their careers and the quality of their lives are sustainable within that business and it is how its leaders lead that is foundational to this sense of sustainability.
One of the great but surmountable challenges currently facing businesses is leadership capacity. Leadership capacity to deliver operational excellence, drive growth amid constant change and all the while maintain the focus, energy and empathy required to lead and manage their people in a humanised way - leading by how they make their people feel.
People sustainability drives and sustains the growth of an organisation; it builds sustainability into business performance. People need to feel that their careers and the quality of their lives are sustainable within that business and it is how its leaders lead that is foundational to this sense of sustainability.
One of the great but surmountable challenges currently facing businesses is leadership capacity. Leadership capacity to deliver operational excellence, drive growth amid constant change and all the while maintain the focus, energy and empathy required to lead and manage their people in a humanised way - leading by how they make their people feel.
Our vision at CHX is of a World full of higher performing, more engaged, kinder organisations, with Leadership and Management able to create pro-social, highly engaged environments that enable their people to achieve all their career aspirations whilst staying and feeling well.
Building sustainable business cultures requires a new approach and how our people are doing and how our people feel sits at the heart of this sustainability. Health biases how they connect with the purpose of the organisation, how they connect with their leaders, how they connect with each other and how they connect with the needs of the business. Feelings signal the health of an organisation and feelings drive performance. Feelings are misunderstood; feelings are hard biological data.
World Health Organisation data tell us that over 80% of mental ill health stems from mood or emotion dysregulation, the earliest stage of which is often sub-optimal performance, disengagement and withdrawal.
“When leaders view their workers not as resources, but as humans with individual goals, choices, and preferences, they are able to engage with their workforce in an elevated way that mutually benefits the employees and the organization.”
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“When leaders view their workers not as resources, but as humans with individual goals, choices, and preferences, they are able to engage with their workforce in an elevated way that mutually benefits the employees and the organization.”
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“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
J Krishnamurti
Leadership capacity is critical for sustainability in a performance culture.
The outdated model of Resilience places responsibility for health solely on the individuals. It assumes a person's mental or physical health challenges are a pathological response to a healthy and motivating environment.
CHX take a different view; that the “health” of an organisation is about being able to sustain a high level of performance, and that it is the responsibility of leadership to create and sustain a working environment where the risks to individuals of burnout are minimised in order to drive and sustain growth. So therefore, seemingly paradoxically, a “burnout” or similar is viewed as a healthy response to a pathological environment.
