What does success look like in a big corporate organisation? Is it a high level of Employee Engagement? Is it positive sales and revenue growth year on year? Is it underlying Net Profit? Is it growth in market share? Or is it all of these? Having spent over 20 years in big corporate environments, I have noticed that success can be all of these, and yet it can be any of them – depending on the message that the organisation is looking to deliver to the market and to their shareholders. And the interesting thing about the messaging is that if it seems to change year after year, what message does it send to the real ‘assets’ of the organisation – the employees, and how do they then act and operate in the environment? Is there consistency? Are the results replicable, predictable and sustainable?

I have seen this play out over the last 5 years in a very large corporate organisation, and it has been intriguing to witness – even more intriguing as I have continued to learn more around leadership, Emotional Intelligence, and what distinguishes a good solid company from a great company. Global leadership expert John C Maxwell believes that leadership rises and falls on influence, and when we look at a leader’s ability to influence in a large corporate environment, combined with the level of Emotional Intelligence of the leader, we can gain an insight into the health and vibrancy of the organisation. And when we add the additional layer of ESIP from Meta Dynamics, we can quickly see the underlying patterns emerge that either underpins the organisation’s strong, sustainable performance, or severely hampers the performance, and holds the organisation back. Continue reading →