World at Work Trends - The Impact of Charisma

Global research by Hewitt Associates, pioneers of measuring employee engagement in the early 1990s, established that employee engagement is significantly higher within companies that are enjoying double-digit growth. Subsequent studies and research have consistently found that one of the quickest and most effective ways to build high engagement is by developing authenticity and charisma within leaders, managers and high potentials.

With a rapidly changing global economy, today’s corporatism needs to adapt quickly and decisively to enable effective transitioning. Change often challenges employee morale meaning that the ability of leaders and managers to inspire, reassure and unite is more vital than ever before. Leadership qualities that worked well in yesterday’s environment can be perceived in today’s climate as traditional, out dated and often inadequate. Increasingly, Leaders at organizations that are achieving double-digit growth recognise that to change and empower the mindset of an organisation’s talent requires something more than a non-traditional approach.

Charisma also plays a major role with shaping the mindset of high potentials and talent so they become far more flexible and responsive to the emotional turmoil that strategic change can inevitably create within the workforce. Many forward thinking organisations that naturally see engagement as an essential component for achieving double-digit growth, have chosen to invest in today’s talent by introducing charisma as a core competence. Yet, charisma is not a set of behaviours than can be taught conventionally, because the minute you ‘try’ to install a new behaviour you will hinder and compromise an individual’s authenticity. By working from a charismatic mindset perspective, the expression of behaviours becomes individually congruent and authentic.

Over the years, organizations have been slow to embrace new ideas and in turn, NLP, Emotional Intelligence and Social Media were dismissed as ‘airy fairy’ and lacking commercial relevance. Today these same organisations are routinely incorporating these methods into their leadership and talent development programmes. Organisations that view charisma as an intangible and not relevant to their commercial environment are missing a trick, and may wake up to find that their competitors have a unique advantage that can only be attributed to the charisma of their high potential talent and their leadership teams.

Charisma builds engagement. Charisma wins the hearts and minds of others. Charisma connects an organisation’s vision into a personal and emotive quest with every employee. Charisma is today’s corporate ‘must have’ because of what it can leveral in term’s of an organisation’s potential.

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