How will Leading with Care help you?
The evidence suggests that organisations thrive when their leaders show compassion, exhibit respect for others and have a strong moral compass – in short, when they demonstrate that they care. This is shown consistently in the benchmark metrics of human performance, retention, engagement and well-being, with both direct and indirect effects on the bottom-line.
Typical Business Challenge
We all intuitively know that we would prefer to work for a leader who cares than for one who doesn’t, but probably not at the expense of delivery or performance. Care is often relegated to the ‘nice to have’ list, rather than appreciated for its true significance for organisational and individual success. It is usually equated with having fond feelings for one another, which may make organisations nicer, but does it actually make them better?
Organisations are increasingly demanding leaders who care, but are also nervous about seeming to prioritise warm feelings over hard actions and decisions. There is growing recognition of the need for honest discussion about the risks of care, including how to avoid caring to the point of burnout.
The evidence suggests that organisations thrive when their leaders show compassion, exhibit respect for others and have a strong moral compass – in short, when they demonstrate that they care. This is shown consistently in the benchmark metrics of human performance, retention, engagement and well-being, with both direct and indirect effects on the bottom-line.
How will Leading with Care help you?
Typical Business Challenge
We all intuitively know that we would prefer to work for a leader who cares than for one who doesn’t, but probably not at the expense of delivery or performance. Care is often relegated to the ‘nice to have’ list, rather than appreciated for its true significance for organisational and individual success. It is usually equated with having fond feelings for one another, which may make organisations nicer, but does it actually make them better?
Organisations are increasingly demanding leaders who care, but are also nervous about seeming to prioritise warm feelings over hard actions and decisions. There is growing recognition of the need for honest discussion about the risks of care, including how to avoid caring to the point of burnout.
Why B2E?
B2E Consulting recognises that both leaders and those they lead come to work with hopes, passions and good intentions, but also with anxieties, fears and cognitive biases. Leading with care involves reframing thinking and action not just emotion, and recognising that care entails risk not just benefit.
Service Offerings at B2E Consulting are supported by our community of over 20,000 high calibre, expert consultants, usually with more than 10 years of relevant Leadership experience, ensuring we fully understand a client’s goals, content and context. We usually expect to partner with a client to develop a strategy that will be truly effective, whilst leveraging our unique business model to ensure quality and value for money.
Working with B2E’s Leadership Services Principal
Dr Leah Tomkins is the B2E Leading with Care Principal. She is an expert consultant, researcher and published author on leadership and its relationship with organisational and individual success. She has over twenty five years’ experience of leading organisational change initiatives, including for Accenture, PwC, KPMG, the Cabinet Office, and most recently, for the Metropolitan Police Service. She balances an in-depth understanding of the research evidence-base with a pragmatism born of extensive hands-on experience.
She has a proven track record of empowering clients to realise their goals, and to learn to work with the emotional dynamics that can both facilitate and impede progress. She is known for her original and ground-breaking work on the relationship between leadership and care, including the effects of leaders failing to demonstrate that they care for those who work for and rely on them. Her most recent book on this is Paradox and Power in Caring Leadership, published by Edward Elgar in 2020.
