Healing the Wounds: Overcoming the Trauma of Layoffs and Revitalizing Downsized Organizations

13.6. Learnings and Implications

In order to be effective in the new reality, leaders must master new or neglected competencies such as transition facilitation, visioning, value congruence, empowerment, self-understanding, and process wisdom. They do not acquire these relevant skills in traditional management development programs or business schools, yet these are the most important capabilities leaders bring to the new paradigm.

No one has yet designed a core curriculum to teach leaders the functional skills necessary to manage a complex business and, in addition, teach them to be authentic, congruent, self-aware, process wise, other centered, and facilitative in the midst of major cultural change. As a precondition to acquiring these needed ...