​Pull intrinsic transformation! Instead of pushing change to people.

This week, me and my colleague had a very insightful conversation about how to lead people through change. The question is, how can we prepare people for upcoming change.

Can we really get people ready for change? Or will they always fear it?

I suggest a different path of thought. Let the people discover and design their own transformation journey. Create motivation and excitement for a new strategy and then allow them to run towards these goals. As a leader you might only focus on removing the barriers.

In this sense, I believe that true success can be reached by creating a meaningful purpose, facilitating cross-silo collaboration and cultivating a willingness to experiment.

Where do you see the leading indicators for success?

​While supporting large corporate organisation, I often hear that we need more entrepreneurship. What makes entrepreneurs so special and different?

1) customer-focus
as start-up there is no other way than to deep-dive into the needs and insights from your customers; in the corporate world, there is a huge lack of this mindset; and it starts with identifying, who is my customer

2) taking risks
no risk, no reward; following the beaten path, the safe path is the quickest way to failure as an entrepreneur; most larger organisations stop to experiment and create a culture that builds on fail-safe results

3) passion
people start their own, successful business based on a strong belief, a product or solution they are passionate about; corporate leaders often fail to create a purpose the people in the organisation care about

how will you cultivate entrepreneurship in your organisation?

​When looking at the key drivers for innovation in general, we identified three main elements to focus on:
* Value creation: create a good understanding of the needs and insights of our customers and then focus on delivering value to the customers
* Taking risk: create an environment where people are encouraged to experiment and instil entrepreneurship 
* Leadership: guide people with purpose and be mindful to be a role model in the journey to create an innovation culture

Other elements that have highly scored as well are setting the right targets, focus on speed, learn from diversity and facilitate collaboration across silos.

Where do you see the key drivers for innovation?