How to elicit change from your team members

Leaders face all types of daily challenges, but one of the most difficult in both the short and long term is dealing with employees who aren’t performing well or are bringing negative attributes into the office. While getting others to change their behavior is difficult, it’s not impossible.

According to an IMD global study of 500 executives, managers believe that only one in two attempts to change employee behavior is successful. These results are not surprising, since managers tend to use limited tools to identify what needs to change and rarely explore how to do so. They also mostly underestimate the influence of the context – the environment and conditions in which behavioral change happens.

There are four dimensions you need to work across to elicit change from others. The first one requires some serious self-reflection. Read…