Management Perspectives

Why should the focus of first-time CEOs be on people skills and relationship building to ensure they feel thoroughly prepared for the demands of their role?

By working towards the ‘happy and healthy’ leadership approach, leaders will be able to balance themselves, remain open to the future, and embrace whatever comes. They will lead with strength and kindness.

A sense of well-being—whatever that means to us—results in a number of benefits with research showing greater efficiency, more effective interpersonal interactions and taking of opportunities, greater motivation, and even greater cognitive flexibility (resulting in better problem solving and creativity).

How do we achieve both the minimization of variability crucial to reliability and the creation of a culture that values the ‘healthy mistakes’ that have been known to drive innovation, psychological safety and competitiveness?