Leadership and Employee Development

The pivotal role of managers

Clearly, the success of any change effort depends greatly on managers’ ability to translate strategic objectives into operational activities.

Organizations are adept at imparting functional knowledge, but managers' capacity to lead rarely keeps pace with their growing functional expertise. As a result, direction setting, innovation, and operating efficiency falter when needed most.

Today, managers are increasingly faced with problems that elude quick and definitive solutions. In response, their operating mode has to shift from "answer-giving" to constructing relationships that enable their people to identify and address tough issues. This applies to virtually everybody in the organisation, management and staff alike.

Apart from their functional know-how, managers need to have individual and social competencies to cope adequately with the taxing challenges of change processes.


Employee involvement

Sustainable change requires employee involvement. Given the right instructions and support employees know better than anybody how to make improvements at the operational level. Therefore, any change programme must be designed in a way that those who will shoulder the burdens of implementation are given the opportunity to bring their know-how and experience to bear on the change effort.

Early employee involvement at all relevant stages of the change process is integral to our implementation approach.

bpc-consulting has extensive experience in supporting companies in their efforts to align people at all levels to back major change initiatives.