Why Leadership Isn’t Driving the Change You Need

Want to drive lasting, systemic cultural change?

Then active leadership involvement is crucial. While bottom-up improvements can bring quick wins, without engaging leadership, true transformation will remain out of reach.

Join PMI’s Warren Knight and Rich Seddon to learn how to influence leadership and gain the buy-in needed to create the cultural changes that ensure sustainable, impactful improvement. They cover:

  • How to engage and influence leaders
  • Aligning leadership with improvement goals
  • Tools for securing leadership buy-in

 

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What Leadership Is Really Made Of

Purpose and performance might keep leaders in the job, but it’s people and process that determine whether real change sticks.

Change vs Transformation

Change tweaks what exists. Transformation builds something new. When leaders focus only on systems and processes, they miss the deeper shifts that drive real organisational value.

People Don’t Just ‘Change’

You can’t reprogramme people. You can only support them through the discomfort of learning and adapting. Real change means helping people let go of old certainties to grow into something new.

Avoiding the Apathy Barrier

Transformation lives in the space between complacency and crisis. The challenge for leaders is to keep teams in the zone of healthy stress, where momentum builds and transformation is possible.

Why Leadership Isn’t Driving the Change You Need: Video Highlights

 

  • The Model: Mindset Drives Change (06:40)

An exploration of how mindset underpins systems and processes: introducing the distinction between change and transformation, and why mindset is the critical lever for sustainable improvement.

  • Culture as a Shadow of Leadership (09:23)

A compelling look at how leadership behaviour shapes organisational culture: highlighting why meaningful change must begin with those at the top.

  • Influence Through Relationships and Trust (14:51)

Focusing on the power of trust and relationships in influencing leadership: practical insights for practitioners working to build credibility and drive change.

  • Empathy and Matching Preferences (31:04)

Guidance on how to adapt communication styles to align with leadership preferences: emphasising empathy as a tool for increasing influence and engagement.

  • Making Data Meaningful for Leaders (40:32)

A practical discussion on how to present data in ways that resonate emotionally and intuitively: essential for those looking to make their insights stick.

  • Summary and Key Takeaways (49:44)

The session concludes with a concise summary of the core messages: leadership change is essential, emotional influence matters, and improvement must be both strategic and human-centred.

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