Maximising impact as an executive leader

Introduction

When moving into an executive role, you’ll want to make a positive impact as soon as possible. To help you, Robert Walters is launching a variety of thought-leadership and advice-driven content with advice from experts and personal stories from top c-suite executives.

We’ll help you build trust, recognize your unconscious biases and show you how to avoid accidental diminishing tendencies. Senior leaders share their best practices and pitfalls to avoid, and in our upcoming webinar we will help professionals discover what is required to become a leader who multiplies capability and delivers stronger results.

Webinar: Shaping tomorrow’s executive leaders - how the best leaders make everyone smarter

In this webinar, Robert Walters partners up with Tim Threipland from FranklinCovey, a world leader in helping organisations to achieve lasting change in human behaviour. Together, we will help you discover what is required to become a leader who multiplies capability and delivers stronger results by:

Identifying and avoiding accidentally diminishing behaviours that all leaders are capable of
Rekindling energy and enthusiasm by making everyone feel valued, heard and credited
Encouraging new and bold thinking, making space for others to make mistakes and own decisions
Unleashing the skills, interests and perspectives that each employee brings to your organisation

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Key advice for executive leaders from our partner FranklinCovey

As a business leader, the people in your organisation depend on you to help them reach their unique potential. Robert Walters sat down with experts from FranklinCovey to discuss how to quickly establish trust within an organisation, how to recognise and address unconscious bias and how to mitigate against accidental diminishing tendencies we all have, in order to become the best leader you can be.

The four pillars of trust

When starting in a c-level role, how do you gain and retain the trust of the board and the shareholders?

Robert Walters spoke to Jan Kuipers, founder and director of FranklinCovey Benelux, who boils it down to four main pillars.

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Show courage in addressing unconscious bias

Employees who are negatively impacted by unconscious bias will fail to reach their full potential, says Jolanda Prijs, managing partner at FranklinCovey Benelux. Executives therefore need to be aware of their own unconscious biases and show courage in addressing problems.

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How to become a multiplier

Como líder, depende de ti reconocer la genialidad natural única de tus empleados y actuar como un multiplicador. Pero a veces las buenas intenciones se traducen en comportamientos que disminuyen el potencial del equipo. Para prevenirlo, hablamos con Paul Coates, Head of Consultancy de Europa en FranklinCovey.

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Executive Leadership Series

Robert Walters ha entrevistado a tres líderes C-Level y les ha preguntado por su visión del liderazgo y del desempeño individual, por las habilidades más demandadas en el presente y futuro, y por sus mejores prácticas directivas.

No hay una fórmula mágica para llegar a ser un CEO de éxito

Solo dos años después de ocupar el puesto de CEO en el banco japonés MARUHAN en Laos, Anthony Chin ha sido nombrado Best New Banking CEO en años consecutivos y ha lanzado una galardonada aplicación de banca móvil.

Como CEO, debes cumplir y vivir los valores de la compañía

Adrian Meili se incorporó a Zino Davidoff SA como CEO en febrero de 2021, en medio de la pandemia de la Covid-19.
Esto le ha dado una perspectiva nueva del liderazgo, siendo más abierto de mente y aprendiendo a acoger la incomodidad que produce la incertidumbre.

Ninguna visión o estrategia es inamovible

Después de una larga carrera en recursos humanos, Binne Visser se unió a Vion como CHRO en 2018. Su pasión por la gestión del cambio y el desarrollo de las organizaciones, significaba que él podría contribuir a la transformación y reposicionamiento de la compañía en una sociedad cambiante.