I have been reading a lot of material lately on how successful companies can be if they use the approach of managing from the bottom up vs. the traditional way of top down. What does this mean? It simply means to be able to effectively manage people and open up better lines of communication, you need to engage everyone, involving them in interacting with each other and with senior leaders. One example to start this process would be for the employees to begin a leadership discovery journey. By learning about the qualities of a good leader, having conversations with leaders on how they became successful and who they are as people starts this journey. Companies would benefit by having leadership development meetings - talk about the culture, what defines success, how can we make communication more transparent and open, what is bad behavior and what has to change. How do we make everyone accountable to grounds rules and what are the ground rules?
What comes out of this style of management is a group of colleagues who will enjoy thinking outside the box, who enjoy discussing work-related situations and who will create a more cohesive working environment. Future leaders will be developed as well as opportunities will show up for people to move into other areas of the company . There are unlimited possibilities with this style of leading such as creating work teams focusing on a particular part of the culture such as performance management, quality of work, reward and recognition. These teams would work with the leadership team to help implement new ideas and transformation. Each team would be responsible for setting goals, creating accountability in their process.
Just imagine what this could look like from where it is now.
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