Kevin Johnson, CEO at OnTrack, talks about unlocking people’s potential by fuelling curiosity and enabling growth.
In todayâs dynamic business environment, organisations that stand still risk becoming irrelevant and even extinct. To drive continued commercial success, organisations must evolve.
But to evolve, global businesses must unlock the potential of their people by fuelling curiosity and enabling growth. So, how can this be achieved, and how does OnTrack International create value?
Growing pains
The world is changing fast. Many leaders and their organisations are facing a more complex and uncertain environment. Against this backdrop, global businesses must continue to innovate, create new value and find growth.
According to professional services firm Deloitte, in three years, 30 per cent of global revenues will come from products or services that donât exist today. So, if organisations and their people are not growing, they will fail to capture this future potential.
As Jack Welch, the former CEO of GE, said: âIf the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.â.
Curiosity + growth = unlocking potential
To unlock potential in their people and support continued evolution, global organisations must focus on fuelling curiosity and enabling growth.
The two go hand in hand. At OnTrack International, we talk about employees developing a mindset of curious tenacity â or the desire for learning combined with the ability to do something with it. But how can organisations foster this mindset?
Often, this comes down to providing the ignition and helping establish momentum. For many employees, this initial growth and development may not be linked to their career or job objectives. It may instead be something they are interested in more broadly.
However, once an employee starts growing, it fuels curiosity to learn new skills, behaviours or thinking aligned with their role, which helps them grow and unlock their potential.
For organisations, if every individual is growing, the business is growing. It is this virtuous circle that drives commercial success.
Dynamic stretch
But what does growth mean in this context? For individuals, teams, or organisations to grow, leaders must create dynamic stretch.
Imagine holding an elastic band. If there is enough pressure, it provokes the band to expand and encompass a broader range of activity. People are no different. Just the right amount of pressure creates provocation to achieve more.
However, if we donât stretch the band, and it goes slack, then the weight of the band makes it sag. The same happens with people. If employees are not stretched they can become stagnant, fail to grow, or even wither.
Without focusing on employee, team, or inter-team stretch, businesses will rely on circumstances to grow. But this leaves growth open to chance, which is suboptimal for global firms and their leaders.
How does OnTrack create value?
For business leaders, the focus must be on creating value and delivering business impact.
We do this by focusing on eight critical solutions that drive commercial success. Importantly, our intellect has been created after thousands of hours with our clients, solving hundreds of business problems. We have tested our programmes against real-life situations, so we know our insights drive results.
Our eight propositions include client engagement, leader culture, holistic thinking, leadership moments that matter, personal presence and impact, behavioural intelligence, strategic relationship management and scale facilitation.
Importantly, we combine this business intellect with business-focused consultants who can deliver high-end facilitation and coaching alongside our digital, video, and animation solutions – rooted in behavioural science.
Our consultants, drawn from business rather than academia, help inspire change and improve performance with hundreds of people through high-impact sessions.
Our videos and animations create sustainable business impact for our clients through relevant and engaging content.
Last, our digital solutions enable organisations and their people to learn anywhere, anytime and on any platform. We are fit for global firms with people operating in disparate locations worldwide.
At OnTrack International, we solve our clientâs business challenges by fuelling curiosity and enabling growth in their people.
From improving performance to leading others and enabling cultural change, we help businesses tackle many critical issues.
It is why and how we create value.
Kevin Johnson is CEO of OnTrack International
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